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On 2025-05-10 9:29 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On 2025-05-10, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> On 2025-05-10 4:51 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>> On 2025-05-09, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>>> On 2025-05-09 5:41 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>> On 2025-05-09, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> It's not just one deranged man. There is a pattern of it. The Trumpster
>>>>>> is an extreme example of it. Let us not forget that enough Americans
>>>>>> voted for him that we one the election.  The vast majority of people
>>>>>> outside of the US view him as a raving lunatic. Americans voted for him
>>>>>> to be their president.
>>>>>
>>>>> Only one deranged man is in a position to keep changing US policies.
>>>>> Everybody else is just along for the ride.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> He is not the only one. Go back a little over a hundred years when the
>>>> US had an isolationist policy and would not get involved in WWI until
>>>> our mutual enemies menaced the US and finally did the right thing.  The
>>>> US, IMO had way too much influence in the formulation of the treaty of
>>>> Versailles but Wilson got his way. Then the US refused to ratify it.
>>>> Back to the isolationism as Germany rearmed and threatened again they
>>>> would not fully support its former Allies..... until Japan attacked them
>>>> and Germany declared war.  After the war they would not support France
>>>> against the Vietminh. They supported a plan to have a vote on Vietnamese
>>>> reunification. They were all set for a democratic vote... until they
>>>> realized the communists would win  followed by years and years of
>>>> American involvement before abandoning their Vietnamese allies.
>>>>
>>>> They backed Saddam Hussein when he was fighting Iran. They gave them
>>>> satellite intelligence on Iranian positions to help them enhance the
>>>> targeting of the enemy forces.  After about a decade Saddam was the bad
>>>> guy that they allowed to invade Kuwait before going in to evict him from
>>>> Kuwait. Then about a decade later invaded Iraq to rid Saddam of the
>>>> alleged arsenal of WMDs that weapons inspectors insisted did not exist.
>>>>
>>>> Face it, American foreign policy is like tumble weed that changes
>>>> direction with the wind.
>>>>
>>>> As I pointed out, it was Reagan who pushed  for NAFTA. It was
>>>> implemented under Bush..... both Republicans. Then it was the Moron who
>>>> insisted it be renegotiated, and now he doesn't like the deal he
>>>> negotiated. Sure, he may he the one who is doing it this time, but is is
>>>> part of a pattern with the US.
>>>
>>> Yes, you're right, Dave.  The U.S. is responsible for every shitty
>>> thing that ever happened in the world.  No other country bears
>>> any responsibility.
>>
>>    Really? That is your read on things.
> 
> That is my sarcasm on things.
> 
>> The US has done some good
>> things, but you guys need to get over yourselves. You are not the only
>> democracy in the world and you
> 
> Me?  Cindy Hamilton?
> 
>> act as of you are the only country with
>> individual rights, even as we are wondering what happened to them these
>> days. I pointed out a series of major policies that the US has flip
>> flopped on.
>>
>> We have this current trade war bullshit that the US started. Your leader
>> has decided that Canada and the US have been taking advantage of under
>> the current North American free trade deal, the deal that Trump demanded
>> and got just 6 years ago. T
> 
> I think we both agree that Trump is a senile, narcissistic asshole.
> 
Cindy, you are too generous!