Never heard of The Ugly American but I just read a synopsis and it sounds spot on. They told us we were “freeing” oppressed people and spreading democracy. Except they never pointed out that most people in the world don’t know what it means and don’t want it. It’s completely ethnocentric of us. Just like it is of the Muslims extreme that think Sharia Law will work here in America.
Never heard of The Ugly American but I just read a synopsis and it sounds spot on. They told us we were “freeing” oppressed people and spreading democracy. Except they never pointed out that most people in the world don’t know what it means and don’t want it. It’s completely ethnocentric of us. Just like it is of the Muslims extreme that think Sharia Law will work here in America.
Agreed Bo. Another good book is The Economic Hitman, written by an American Economic Hitman. He realized his wrongdoings afterwards and wrote about it. Reads like a spy novel. He lives in Fl also, last I read.
Never heard of The Ugly American but I just read a synopsis and it sounds spot on. They told us we were “freeing” oppressed people and spreading democracy. Except they never pointed out that most people in the world don’t know what it means and don’t want it. It’s completely ethnocentric of us. Just like it is of the Muslims extreme that think Sharia Law will work here in America.
Agreed Bo. Another good book is The Economic Hitman, written by an American Economic Hitman. He realized his wrongdoings afterwards and wrote about it. Reads like a spy novel. He lives in Fl also, last I read.
The book was better than the flick--Marlon Brando was NOT "believable" in that role.
Sharia Law is being implemented in MN - right in the midst of our so-called "democracy"--thanks to Barry Boy!!