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“When I grew up we supported freedom and wanted to spread the values we embraced”

The problem is, freedom to do what?

The freedom was the guarantees in the Constitution and what our parents fought for in WW2. After the war, people wanted an end to war and to build the US and strong positive ways. We're way off track, have been since Viet Nam. We grew up believing the people should elect their own governments.

Regime change reared its ugly head under Clinton, and got way out of control under GWB and Obama. Now, it's even worse. We're not even pretending the Venezuelan usurper was elected. How hypocritical is it that we say we have a claim to our "neighborhood" of Central and South America, but are in Russia's face in Ukraine, especially Crimea and the Black Sea? And who can blame Iran. We almost toppled a legal stable gov in Syria that supported Christians and minorities, caused chaos in Iraq, and we still support their enemies.

Ike warned us about the military-industrial complex. So did President Trump. What the heck happened?