Quote Originally Posted by Al Khalifah
OK then no selective quoting:

Even with the sentance that follows, what I said remains valid. I don't see how the next sentance accounts for what I said.
Sorry, it was the preceeding sentence

quoting myself
A guiding principle of U.S. international policy for the past 100 years or so has been "self determination" rather than empire or colonialism. That doesn't mean we've always honored the principle as we should have. Certainly the Cold War got in the way of that...