Stephen Kinzer Quotes
American Leaders Clamored For This Policy Because, They Said, The Country Desperately Needed A Way To Resolve Its "glut" Of Overproduction. This Glut, However, Was Largely Illusory. While Wealthy Americans Were Lamenting It, Huge Numbers Of Ordinary People Were Living In Conditions Of Severe Deprivation. The Surplus Production From Farms And Factories Could Have Been Used To Lift Millions Out Of Poverty, But This Would Have Required A Form Of Wealth Redistribution That Was Repugnant To Powerful Americans. Instead They Looked Abroad.
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