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John2

(2,730 posts)
10. This is not
Fri Jan 25, 2013, 11:44 AM
Jan 2013

new if people paid attention to our own Government, especially George W. Bush and the neocons. There were dissidents soliciting our government to overthrow the Syrian regime at the same time there were dissidents from Iraq. When the other groups don't have the power to fight the regime, they look at the U.S. because of our supposedly interests and spreading Democracy. Then our sympathies are played on by our religious extremists because of what those dictators do to their people in the name of humanism rights. It is not that I have no heart but you have to be reasonable. The U.S. cannot physically liberate every country in the World, everytime one side gets the short end of the stick in their civil disputes. And in some of these cases, there is no differences in atrocities between one side or the other.

Take Al Qaieda and the Taliban for instance. We helped them overthrow the invasion of the Soviet Union. That is why I favor the U.S. tending more to their own internal problems instead of going around the World Nation building. It is the biggest reason for this so called Debt. If the number of states we liberated paid us back, then we wouldn't have so much Debt. We are alleviating a few countries of their responsibilities to defend their own people also by providing them with defense. This has been our Policy ever since winning World War II. Are we ever going to leave these countries or is this for life? This is equivalent to any other Empire in the World's history. And it takes money and resources to govern it. It also only benefits a few of us, mainly the upperclass.

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