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My blood boils when I think about how Guatemalans and Salvadoreans are disrespected in DC when their democratic attempts at progressive society were economically and militarily obliterated by the United States. You don’t like how uneducated and poor they are? You try living in a country where reforms for education and minor land rights land get you CIA-funded and trained coups and massacres.
I don’t think I’ll ever recover from my sojourn in pinko Canada. I think it would best for all parties involved if I just stay here.
What’s with all this Mediterranean inequity and violence? Rioting in Greece, Arab-Israeli conflict going strong, Egyptians carrying on with their female genital mutilation… Must be something in the water.
“Those Greek Riots,” Robert Kaplan
Several things stand out:
- If I were Che, I would hitchhike and sail my way over to Greece during the summer and see what’s up. While I were there, I would find fellow Argentines all over the place and sleep with beautiful women.
- Amazing to see “Latin American-style interference” used to describe the US’s intervention in Greece in protection of it from Balkan communism—intervention so heavy-handed that it elicited strong antipathy towards the US in Greece
- “…[S]weeping international trends of uneven development, in which the uncontrolled surges and declines of capitalism have left haves and bitter have-nots, who, in Europe, often tend to be young people.” I wonder, is it a good idea for educated, vigorous youth to be have-nots? Isn’t that a recipe for unrest and trouble? Or are people similarly docile and biddable across age groups?
- Finally, a point for the ICT geeks among us (i.e., Christine and her Station C crowd, et al.): “these young people now have the ability to instantaneously organize themselves through text messages and other new media, without waiting passively to be informed by traditional newspapers and television. Technology has empowered the crowd—or the mob if you will.” So the revolution will not be televised, but we’re to believe it will be mobilized by Blackberries. Why do I find this hard to believe?
