John Yamamoto-Wilson wrote:

> Eric Takabayashi wrote:
>
> > > > I am referring to colonialism or imperialism itself, not individual
> > > beneficial
> > > > things the colonizer may have done.
> > >
> > > Interesting.
> >
> > Why?
>
> Because people interest me. I can see where Kevin Gowen is coming from and
> his views on this issue were entirely predictable, but I still haven't fully
> got the measure of you and I wondered where you would stand on this.

It's what I said it was. Evil. And I certainly do not support the way the US
has been operating recently.

> > > Would you make a difference between imperialism and something
> > > like the present US occupation of Iraq?
> >
> > No.
>
> Thanks, Eric. This adds to my understanding of the mosaic of the human
> fabric. Just to make it quite clear I'm reading you right, you are saying,
> firstly, imperialism is evil and, secondly, you make no distinction between
> imperialism and what the US is doing in Iraq, which leads to the corollary
> that, so far from being the good pole in the "axis of evil", the US itself
> is doing something evil. Is that right?

That it does so should be apparent.

> If so, I see nothing wrong with that. It's just that, while it is quite
> common for outsiders to express that kind of view, it is the first time I
> have come across an American citizen saying so in a public forum

If surveyed, I would be one of the minority who did not support the war in
Iraq, at least not in that form.

> and, from
> the kinds of things I've heard from fly-the-flag US patriots, that takes
> guts in this day and age.

I do it in real life among Americans and other people I know, but no it doesn't
take guts, because they are rather mature and take it well even if they do not
agree.