Astaria

By Alain Leveque Attention all Space Travellers Fasten your seatbelts; you are about to land on Planet America. Thank you for travelling Air Uranus and welcome to the land of the free. Ok, now all Marxist, Communist, Maoist, and Socialist tree-swingers ? listen up! So, during the cold war, we divided the third world and forced most of them into unfair trade and tariffs agreements ? Ok, so we may have occasionally interfered with the body-politic of some countries. Ok then, perhaps we sponsored a few coup dtats here and there: Chile, Nicaragua, Venezuela ? OK OK, the whole South American Continent, Africa, Asia ? So what! We are on a crusade against evil. Those on the lunatic fringes of the proletariat claim that when the small agricultural country of Vietnam quoted from our Declaration of Independence, to justify its own, that we burned th zotrim eir rice fields with napalm and bombed them back to the Stone Age. This may be true, but then, we were only helping our friends the French reclaim what was rightfully theirs, all along: the whole of Indochina. Give us a break! We also stopped the dreaded domino-effect and prevented Vietnam from launching a major attack against mainland America, didn?t we? Too bloody right we did! Let me tell you why we have a military presence in 132 of the 191 countries of the UN ? you won?t read that in your little red book or in the manifesto of Mad Marx. Yes, tree swingers, that?s right! It is to protect democracy and freedom, to shield the world from evil and to rid OUR planet of all wickedness and communists. In short, to look after your interests … yes people, your interests ?work with me here! The radicals on the extreme left will tell you otherwise.