[Pen-l] Respect Cuba and Venezuela

[Julio Huato <juliohuato@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim wrote:

> I hope that you're right that the word "respect"
> has a role in US foreign policy.

No, I don't say it *has*.  I just argue that it *should have*.

Browse the foreign policy threads on Obama's Citizens' Briefing Book
(http://citizensbriefingbook.change.gov/home) and you'll notice an
intense anti-imperialist sentiment among those who care to share their
thoughts.  I'm not saying the thinking is clear.  I'm just saying that
it's dawning on people how costly the country's militaristic
adventures are for them.  I think we should contribute to this and
show the powers that be how intense the sentiment truly is.  If you
can articulate that sentiment in ways that are appealing to broader
groups of people, more power to you.

I don't know how heavy the rate of discount is on point-and-click
protests in comparison to the benchmarks here -- armed insurgencies,
general strikes, or street demonstrations -- but this can (and should)
be combined with the other approaches.  Just because we don't observe
mobs storming the nearest bank branch (but imagine them instead
frantically trying to transfer the shrinking balances of their
401(k)'s online or via an automated phone system), we cannot say that
bank runs have ceased to exist.
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