Re: East Timor/United Nations

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael the K wrote:
> The crumbling of the Portuguese empire at this time led the Kissinger State
> Department and the CIA to instigate some of the most disgusting "foreign
> policy" ever perpetrated by the US, as civil wars were deliberately created
> in Angola (with the creation of UNITA under the psychotic Jonas Savimbi)

for what it's worth, UNITA wasn't "created" from above. Rather, it arose as
part of the war of liberation against Portugal. Savimbi was probably
corrupt from the start, but he sounded like a revolutionary for awhile.
Maybe he's an example of power corrupting. In any case, Kissinger found him
to be a worthy representative of the "free world." Also, China supported
him for quite awhile.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine