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Originally posted by Not Bob
Cite, please.
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Robert Skidelsky, "Imbalance of Power,"
Foreign Policy (March, 2002).
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If you're talking about India,
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I'm not, per se.
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eta: Of course we acted in self-interest, but the idea that we had economic motives behind entering the war or the way we fought the war is absurd.
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I don't understand this. I'm not saying our motives were purely venal, but nor were they entirely selfless, as Mitt Romney suggested. Don't we always have economic motives? How could you deny that our policy towards Japan in 1941 (for example) had no economic motive?
