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Originally Posted by finnbow
I'm not certain I'm capable of assigning benign or benevolent motives to many of our foreign endeavours and I'm sure many on the receiving end of them are none too thrilled either. I believe there is a certain amount of patriotic rationalization that goes on when one talks about the positive aspects of our overseas expenditures of blood and treasure.
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We can't really presume to divine the motivations behind what our government does, either here or abroad, but we have to be alert to and conscious of the manifest results of what government does.
John