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In reply to the discussion: Ugh, DU. The anti-Muslim sentiment here is getting to me. [View all]cr8tvlde
(1,185 posts)can help us to grasp, and not continue to repeat history. Sorry if this is not PC, but if not, it should be, IMHO.
These are not details of a friendly world police force. The US has always been at war. It requires dehumanizing the intended conquered. (currently ... Muslims) I believe the events of Pearl Harbor and 9-11 were known in advance, and allowed to happen, at best. It dehumanized their entire population so we could obliterate/slaughter millions of them with cheering public approval.
Here are detailed, written versions of foreign "interventions" ... many begun to "protect American interests" or promote "regime change" so we could have an "American interest".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._foreign_interventions_since_1945 (actually since the Colonial/Indian Wars)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States ... another
Here's an amazing 90-second visual version. http://teeth.com.pk/blog/2006/11/01/236-years-of-us-military-conquest-in-90-seconds
I am a proud American by birth. But I'm not always proud of what is done in my name.
I'll vote for Obama, not because his hands are clean...see above, but because I believe he is able to learn, to feel, to act in a more adult manner than his war-mongering opponent and neo-con advisers. Romney is just the clueless stand-in for more of the above insanity. But what I'm afraid of is that American war is a drug to which our colletive culture/economy/ethnocentrism/ego is addicted.
Can we ever stop, or just slow down our financial bleeding abroad and feed, provide health care, and a safety net to all Americans?
This is a clear line in the sand that should exist between R and D, Liberal and Conservative. Feed, clothe, care for Americans first, then go play global war if they must.
Dove? Guilty. Anti-war? Guilty. Pro American Safety net first? Absolutely. Those who do not understand history, will live to repeat it.
Peace to all.