[PEN-L:763] Re: Re: Re: Controlling sea-lanes and Apaches

["William S. Lear" <rael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, October 30, 1998 at 12:00:06 (-0500) Louis Proyect writes:
>...
>I will argue that something was rotten at the core of this republic from
>the inception. I am particularly interested in the whole question of
>Manifest Destiny, which foreshadows imperialism not only in its
>understanding that the US must expand outwards but in its racism as well.

You might appreciate Anders Stephenson, *Manifest Destiny: American
Expansion and the Empire of Right* (Hill & Wang, 1995), from which:

     It  is  peculiar to the character of this Anglo-Saxon race of men
     to  which  we belong, that it has never been contented to live in
     the  same  country  with  any  other distinct race, upon terms of
     equality;  it  has,  invariably,  when  placed in that situation,
     proceeded  to  exterminate or enslave the other race in some form
     or other, or, failing that, to abandon the country.

     ---Senator  Benjamin Leigh of Virginia during "Jacksonion epoch"


Bill