Reply #143: And again, even this example is far different in scale that the earlier example you cited.

[YouTakeTheSkyway]

If anything, you're proving my point. One cannot pretend U.S. foreign policy towards Latin America under Nixon is exactly the same beast today, forty years later. If it were, you wouldn't be citing missiles being extracted from Bolivia, you'd be talking about how Morales was overthrown by a U.S. backed military coup.