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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">Francis A. Boyle<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Boyle, Francis A <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, May 21, 2017 10:10 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> sectns.aals@lists.aals.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Response to Trump in Riyadh<o:p></o:p></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#362F2D">Trump is just another White Racist Iron Fist for Judeo-Christian U.S. Imperialism and Capitalism all over the world. Trump forthrightly and proudly admitted
that the United States is in the Middle East in order to steal their oil. At least he was honest about it. Unlike his predecessors who lied about it going back to President George Bush Sr. with his War for Oil against Iraq in 1991.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#362F2D;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">It is the Unlimited Imperialists along the lines of Alexander, Rome, Napoleon and Hitler who are now in charge of
conducting American foreign policy…<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#362F2D;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Historically, this latest eruption of American militarism at the start of the 21st Century is akin to that of America
opening the 20th Century by means of the U.S.-instigated Spanish-American War in 1898. Then the Republican administration of President William McKinley stole their colonial empire from Spain in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines; inflicted a near
genocidal war against the Filipino people; while at the same time illegally annexing the Kingdom of Hawaii and subjecting the Native Hawaiian people (who call themselves the Kanaka Maoli) to near genocidal conditions. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#362F2D">Additionally, McKinley’s military and colonial expansion into the Pacific was also designed to secure America’s economic exploitation of China pursuant to the
euphemistic rubric of the “open door” policy. But over the next four decades America’s aggressive presence, policies, and practices in the “Pacific” would ineluctably pave the way for Japan’s attack at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 194l, and thus America’s precipitation
into the ongoing Second World War. Today a century later the serial imperial aggressions launched and menaced by the Republican Bush Jr. administration and then the Democratic Obama administration and now the Trump administration are threatening to set off
World War III.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#362F2D">By shamelessly exploiting the terrible tragedy of 11 September 2001, the Bush Jr. administration set forth to steal a hydrocarbon empire from the Muslim states
and peoples living in Central Asia and the Persian Gulf and Africa under the bogus pretexts of:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#362F2D">(1) fighting a war against international terrorism; and/or<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#362F2D">(2) eliminating weapons of mass destruction; and/or<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#362F2D">(3) the promotion of democracy; and/or<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#362F2D">(4) self-styled “humanitarian intervention” or its avatar “responsibility to protect.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#362F2D">Only this time the geopolitical stakes are infinitely greater than they were a century ago: control and domination of two-thirds of the world’s hydrocarbon resources
and thus the very fundament and energizer of the global economic system – oil and gas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#362F2D">The Bush Jr./Obama administrations targeted the remaining hydrocarbon reserves of Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia for further conquest or domination,
together with the strategic choke-points at sea and on land required for their transportation. In this regard, the Bush Jr. administration established the U.S. Pentagon’s Africa Command (AFRICOM) in order to better control, dominate, exploit, and plunder
both the natural resources and the variegated peoples of the continent of Africa, the very cradle of our human species. Libya and the Libyans became the first victims to succumb to AFRICOM under the Obama administration. They will not be the last.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#362F2D">Trump is just another White Racist Iron Fist for Judeo-Christian U.S. Imperialism and Capitalism all over the world. Trump forthrightly and proudly admitted that
the United States is in the Middle East in order to steal their oil. At least he was honest about it. Unlike his predecessors who lied about it going back to President George Bush Sr. with his War for Oil against Iraq in 1991.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#362F2D">This current bout of U.S. imperialism is what my teacher, mentor and friend Hans Morgenthau denominated “unlimited imperialism” in his seminal work
<b>Politics Among Nations</b> (4th ed. 1968, at 52-53):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">“The outstanding historic examples of unlimited imperialism are the expansionist policies of Alexander the Great, Rome, the Arabs in the seventh and eighth centuries,
Napoleon I, and Hitler. They all have in common an urge toward expansion which knows no rational limits, feeds on its own successes and, if not stopped by a superior force, will go on to the confines of the political world. This urge will not be satisfied
so long as there remains anywhere a possible object of domination–a politically organized group of men which by its very independence challenges the conqueror’s lust for power. It is, as we shall see, exactly the lack of moderation, the aspiration to conquer
all that lends itself to conquest, characteristic of unlimited imperialism, which in the past has been the undoing of the imperialistic policies of this kind…”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#362F2D">It is the Unlimited Imperialists along the lines of Alexander, Rome, Napoleon and Hitler who are now in charge of conducting American foreign policy. The factual
circumstances surrounding the outbreaks of both the First World War and the Second World War currently hover like twin Swords of Damocles over the heads of all humanity.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Champaign IL 61820 USA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">217-333-7954 (phone)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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