MrSinatra;358082 Wrote: > > the USA is the bulwark of freedom in the world, and gets very little > credit for it.
Well, when you betray the very ideals you claim to promote and lie about your motivations for a war, what do you expect? Face it, US foreign policy has been largely opportunistic after WW2. It had no problem to fight democratically elected governments when they leaned to the left and to support even the ugliest dictators when they leaned to the right. In the case of Saddam, George Bush sen. did this even personally. When the US went to war in Afghanistan, it had the entire worls behind it because everybody understood why they fought, they had a plan plus local support. In Iraq the Motivation was fake (Saddam while being one of those ugly dictators had nothing to do with islamist terrorism), the legal groundwork was made up (WMD) and the person they seeked to install as an interim president was dubious at best. Act as you talk and you get respect, do the opposite and you don't. It's actually that simple. -- pippin --- see iPeng at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54678 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
