Or at least that's how it is continuously justified to our taxpayers.

You should watch the "Shake Hands with the Devil" documentary.

some people have hobbies...

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That is the cost of having the world's most powerful and expansive navy and air force.

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> look at the Canadian ambassador to Iran during the revolution, he was a CIA operative, one of the highest level ones too

name so i can read more? any good books in general about high level cia hijinks?

I just received Book of the Sword by Sir Richard Francis Burton, aka the most interesting man in the world. First published in 1884, Burton draws on a wealth of linguistic, archaeological, and literary sources to trace the millennia-old history of the sword. He takes us from its earliest days as a charred, sharpened stick to the height of craftsmanship in the modern era.

I’m not too far into it, but so far it’s really good. I can’t speak for the accuracy of the subject matter of a 140 year old book about the history of weaponry, but it’s written in an eloquent prose fitting a 19th century renaissance man which I’ve always found enjoyable.

I can tell that Burton’s writing style is a bit unique. His writing is very erudite, opinionated, and often pedantic in the extreme. The main reason I wanted this book is because I find the author and his life incredibly fascinating, and I want to collect more of his work.

Both speak both - at least today they do

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

By Philip Gourevitch

Canada speaks French and English. Alot of ppl in USA speak Spanish, it's normal for multiethnic countries

... then we'd all be alcoholics.

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Wouldnt the Rwandans be directly responsible? The French may have stood around and done nothing to stop it but ultimately the people doing the killing are the most responsible.

Finished reading: The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the
Dutch Golden Age by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen. A
comprehensive history of the Dutch book trade. Good history with no
appeal to popular fancy, but not dry either. The Yale University Press
copy I have is paperback and and well illustrated with high-quality
colour plates which is unusual in a not large paperback.
Who else here is reading in this strain?

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America is damned if it does get involved in foreign countries, and damned if it doesn't. There will always be people criticizing American foreign policy. If we had intervened, we would have been the demonized World Police, the Western imperialists who can't mind their own business, the white saviors "saving" people who don't want to be saved, etc. etc.

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