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In reply to the discussion: Why do people find it necessary to defend/excuse/deny US imperialism? [View all]leveymg
(36,418 posts)56. Ok. Izzy Stone would probably disagree with the "sole policy" bit, but compared to most of
the many U.S. "police actions" and "peacekeeping" that followed, Korea was morally virtuous with a relatively constructive outcome for the beneficiary of our interest. That still leaves the morality score for US interventions something like 1 to 78. Okay - maybe its more like 5 to 73. But, we have a lot of ground to make up in the final inning of the World's Most Exceptional Empire Series.
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Why do people find it necessary to defend/excuse/deny US imperialism? [View all]
redgreenandblue
Apr 2012
OP
Yes, American imperialism was in place long before Marx and ideology named it.
freshwest
Apr 2012
#38
Why do you find it necessary to defend/excuse/deny the leader of US imperialism?
aikoaiko
Apr 2012
#36
It's a bad habit leftover from McCarthyism. "You're either with us or against us" thinking.
leveymg
Apr 2012
#8
Only goes to prove: sometimes, even in spite of ourselves, we do the right thing.
leveymg
Apr 2012
#27
The right thing delayed, as in Rwanda, is the wrong thing to do. Iraq,we never did the right thing
leveymg
Apr 2012
#52
Ok. Izzy Stone would probably disagree with the "sole policy" bit, but compared to most of
leveymg
Apr 2012
#56
Not really, it's more that imperialism is used as kind of a "Two Minutes Hate."
joshcryer
Apr 2012
#42
I am more than willing to acknowledge that the U.S. has failed to live up to its standards...
ConservativeDemocrat
Apr 2012
#55