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In reply to the discussion: I'm astonished so many DUers are cool with ending Habeas Corpus [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)the US certainly has 'pissed off every country in the world'. By huge majorities, the US is now regarded as a major threat to world peace by the people of the world.
If you mean the dictators who allow us to kill people in their countries, then yes, they are not 'pissed off' because we pay them to cooperate. But their people have no say in what those dictators decide. In fact, when given the chance, the people of those countries, Egypt eg, have expressed their disgust and fear of the US and its support for dictators like Mubarak. They have in fact asked for an apology for the harm done to them for decades by the support given by the US to their dictators.
9/11 was not an attack by any country. Pearl Harbor was. See the difference?
Bush refused offers to hand over Bin Laden, because he wanted to execute the PNAC plans for 'reorganizing the ME' so we were lied to and went to war with a country that had nothing to do with 9/11.
Did you support that war btw?
Al Queda is NOT a huge, powerful military operation. It is a bunch of extremists who even according to our own military, is very small. The people of the ME have other things on their mind than to be joining extremist organizations like Al Queda. They are busy trying to topple all of our Dictator allies so they can experience some democracy in their own countries.
The US Government is extremely unpopular around the world. NOT the people, the government. And for good reason.
Yemen's lying dictator allowed the US to violate his country's sovereignty without the approval of his people. He knew he would not get it, so he lied.
Your post makes as much sense to me as these kinds of arguments made during the Bush years. It's just sad to see this acceptance of those policies. But I guess they counted on the fear factor eventually persuading people that they are in constant danger and approving of these horrendous, anti-Constitutional policies.
Statistics show the chances are so much greater of Americans dying of 1) No Healthcare 2) Murder 3) Accidents with terror being so far down the list of threats it's barely on the list.
So, who should we kill to save us from all those other threats? Who should we declare war on?
The world cannot be made safe for everyone. This incredible focus on fear to persuade people to approve of criminal activity for profit, is just plain shameful, as it was when Bush was doing it.