On Thursday, May 27, 2010, Brian Swale <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What he wrote enabled me to make sense of what seemed to me to be the
> persistent meddling (very often violent) of one country in the affairs of so
> many countries all around the world. Finally it all fell into place. Later I
> was
> able to compare what he wrote with the excellent BBC TV programmes
> about the UK takeover of India (of which I actually saw only a minute
> portion) and the Machiavellian schemings that went on. And of course there
> were other parallels; the King of Belgium in the Congo, Spain in Peru, and
> so on.
>
> I will ever be grateful for his detailed research and lucid writing, putting
> all
> this stuff into the public domain. I forgive him for being somewhat
> repetitious
> in books that followed '501'. In my view he has to be one of the best modern
> historians dealing with USA foreign policy and actions.
Nicely put, Brian. You might enjoy reading Thucydides.
Joel W.
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