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In Reply to: You lose one war and... posted by Stuart Gort on September 06, 1999 at 19:24:03:

:: McSpotlight: Hardly, Stuart. What's of more concern to us is that institutions like Friedman's Chicago school appear to be interested in maximising their own assets at the expense of everything and everyone else on the planet; and that the U.S. is abusing its superpower status in efforts to foist unhealthy food on the rest of the world. As it happens, I/we have no resentment of America or Americans per se; it's only that America is currently acting in an imperialist fashion to the detriment of everyone else.

Doesn't the fact that you correlate a private enterprise like McDonalds and general U.S. policy rather help make my point? Your beef (heh heh) is with McDonalds is it not? I believe they act in their own interests and do not sing to the tune of any U.S. policy maker or lobbyist.

The U.S. is abusing exactly nothing.
America is currently NOT acting in an imperialist fashion.

You Brits just like hamburgers and that's all there is to it. America can't make you buy them and eat them - can we? McDonalds can only set a store where its allowed and attempt to lure you in there - which it apparently has. Cry all you want about the fish 'n' chips places dying off or just come over here. We have plenty of them and don't complain much about imperialist Brits.

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