Re: Query: Quotation from Gen. Shoup.

[Chegitz Guevara <mluziett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 21 Aug 1995, Carrol Cox wrote:

>     Some time in the last couple months in one of the publicatins I read I 
> came
> across a statement quoted from Gen. Shoup (commandment of the Marine Corps in
> the 1960s). It went something like, "If the U.S. would keep its dirty blood
> stained fingers out of these countries (third world), they would get along 
> much
> better." That isn't accurate, but it's the substance.

Actually, the substance of the quote is, "The people of the 3rd World
would rather have their own dictatorship than to have democracy shoved
down their throat by the Americans." We used to have a poster hanging in
our Poli Sci dept. @ DePaul University, but there's been a recent move,
and it's packed away, and I'm unlikely to find the actual quote.

with copmradely regards,
Marc Luzietti

        "Behold, they are as one people, and they all have one language;
and this is only the begining of what they will do; and nothing that they
propose to do will now be impossible for them." -- GOD, on solidarity



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