Joe,
I'm enjoying your book. Let me assure you that the USA is not the only location for the religious fundies and non-thinkers you write about. We have more than we want of them in Canada. They may not be as loud and proud as those in your country, nor as numerous, but they were sufficiently pissed off at our last government to vote themselves a minority government led by Stephen Harper, who has fairly firmly planted himself up the Bush/Cheney/Pentagon arse. (We say "arse" more often than "ass").
So far, after about 19 months as Prime Minister, he has not managed to move up in the polls, and as people get to know him better and the memories of a patronage scandal in the last Liberal government fade, it's not likely he'll get the majority he needs to fully implement his agenda.
I've been in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize and Venezuela and I have found the countries that come closest to being US puppets are invariably the worst off in terms of human rights and sustainable economic development. One needs only look at Haiti. We all need to support what Chavez is doing in Venezuela, and his friends in Latin America (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua are trying to do) wean themselves away from reliance on US "largesse".
Here are two web sites worth visiting:
www.vheadline.com
www.venezuelanalysis.com
I like the saying that a Brit friend of mine is fond of quoting: "I have nothing against God. Just his fan club."
Thanks for your book. I like your style.
Derek
Canada
