Fifty years ago, the democratic Baltic nations lived in peace and harmony with their neighbors, tending their pastures, wheat and potato fields, until forcibly occupied by the Soviet Union. Today, in the face of renewed threats of violence against the freedom movement in the Baltic countries, the United States is offering no-strings-attached economic aid to their oppressor.
Last year, the people of the kingdom of Kuwait lived in peace and harmony with their neighbors, tending their oil fields, until forcibly occupied by the forces of Iraq. In response, the United States got the United Nations to impose an economic embargo on Iraq and approve the use of American troops to restore the monarch of Kuwait.
Is the present foreign policy of United States with regard to protecting the rights of other nations determined solely by the importance of the crops they grow?
