The Pirates Might Prefer Fish to Guns
16. Juni 2009 | Von atsil2 | Kategorie:Read the WorldPresident Barack Obama’s promise that the United States and its allies will put an end to Indian Ocean piracy had the forceful ring to it that good American citizens like to hear, like the statement by Dwight Eisenhower’s secretary of state, John Foster Dulles, in 1953 when the president agreed to an armistice to end the Korean War, leaving the country divided. Dulles protested that the Chinese and North Koreans had to be given “one hell of a licking” if Washington wanted to maintain American “credibility.”
Continue reading: The Pirates Might Prefer Fish to Guns by William Pfaff (truthdig.com)
