Institute for Policy Studies

Or would you be more likely to say: For God's sake get out, you have caused us enough trouble already.

What did American freedom fighters say to the British? Get out - we don't want you. How wd you have felt towards the British if they had said: Oh no, we made a mistake - let's continue to help you, we'll do it better this time.

The leaders of the American Revolution had lost all faith in their British masters - and this without the kind of large-scale devastation we have wreaked on people of color in other parts of the world today. They wanted the British gone. ... Read More

Every Empire says: let me stay, let me help you, you don't have the wherewithal to do it for yourselves (knowing full well, of course, that THEY have destroyed that wherewithal.)

If the countries oppressed by us say: this is what we need, do this, do that, that is EXACTLY what we shd do. If we say: Look, here's what I'm gonna do - well, then, it's the same scoundrelly procedure we have followed toward other nations for over a century.

The way you are suggesting, that WE know best what is our duty now, is more than likely ... Read Moreto pave the way for more continued abuses of these people. I say it is time for us to shut up and listen. And you know what? So far, we haven't shown the slightest sign that we are ready to do anything of the sort.

We will be kicked out of Af and Iraq as we were kicked out of Vietnam - for continuously, brutally, murderously refusing to mind our own business - for not adhering to the same principle that we expect other countries to adhere to when it comes to our independence, our rights. And as in Vietnam, when we finally scamper back home with stinging rear-end, we will richly deserve our fate.