Jaiket said:
To see the link between the highest forces in American politics during his term of presidency and the political, social, and religious oppression (including murder, rape, kidnap, vote rigging, electoral intimidation) in countries like Guatemala and El Salvador by right-wing paramilitaries which were extensions of the controlling elite you would first have to remove your head from the sand.
It would make it easier to do so if we actually had journalists in this country, but despite our larger population, there are more journalists per capita where you are then there are here. And that has only worsened in the last couple of decades.
Here, we got communications majors. And talk show bimbos.
woo hoo
Thank God for the Internet so I can read some actual news that actually happens outside the U.S. At least when I lived up North I could catch the CBC news and find out nifty keeno things like how phosphorus bombs from our military stocks were being used on civilians in Beirut.
And if I hadn't personally met a Time photographer who was in Beirut around that time, I would've had no idea that those "Druse positions" we were supposedly firing on were no more than vacant lots where we knew darn well there was nothing and no one. They make it sound so glorious in the news, you know?
etc.
There's a very good reason why our gov't resists signing up with the ICC. They know full well our politicians and military risk standing in the dock.
But if you think many people in this country even know what the ICC is, much less that we're not willing to be a part of it, uh...maybe you have your head in the sand? Nah...more likely you just don't live here. <shrug>
Well, that's enough ranting for one evening...keep up the good questions.