Everybody in the country gets a cookie and we can all stay up late tonight. Yay!
So what? We're just going to relocate to some other place and spend billions blowing up some other mope. I'm afraid the giddiness of the situation eludes me...
We installed most of them and supplied them. We LIKE dictators right up to the point that they don't give our owners^w corporations the terms they dictate^w want.
Precedent schmecedent. It's just another way for the profiteers to collect another stack of money.
I understand why you should be suspect of any of these situations, I know I am, but that doesn't stop the occasional "win" in the situation, even though it employs situational ethics.