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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
Love his scrappy looks and fuck-you attitude (he hates Bush but so do 3/4 of my friends), but would someone please explain to me how it's cool that Penn, an American enjoying life as one in San Fran (or somewhere near there) approves of, visits, gets chummy with whatever, someone just quoted as saying "God willing, with the fall of the dollar, the deviant U.S. imperialism will fall as soon as possible, too." (Chavez after a 2 hour meeting with Ahmadinejad - I guess that explains the "God Willing" stuff). Presumably Penn doesn't think only "U.S. imperialist parts of the country" will fall and the others will remain intact, so why is he running amok being interviewed and saying how swell Chavez is and how awesome the Argentinian Constitution is (which he claims to have read 3 times and hearts). I guess it's okay for Americans to support international leaders set on economically collapsing America. Or is it?

Not having read anything but what's above, is it possible that Penn was hoping for the end of American imperialism rather than the end of America? The word "deviant" (there's that word again) could mean that he thinks imperialism is a deviant strain in American policy, rather than that American imperialism is deviant in the world.