I guess I don't understand your point then, Fred, about "a lot of other countries, on balance". I can only speak for my own reasons for doing things, but when it comes to criticizing countries, Israel, and South Africa and the US South during aparthied, all have received similar criticisms from me at one point or another. Other countries get criticized by me for different reasons. I criticize the US about as much as I do Israel. South Africa is no longer problematic in the ways that it used to be, so I don't tend to focus on that so much.

Most of the other countries I might criticize are being made more problematic than they might otherwise be because of interference from the US, so I would like to see what happens in those coutries without our interference before I form any solid opinions about how they do things.

I find myself agreeing with your second paragraph in your 28 Feb 04 - 06:35 PM post. But that's hardly surprising. I've never had much use for the "opinions" of Mr. Will.