It is easy for a small country such as NZ to moan about how arrogant the US is (we get peeved because on holiday in the US we get asked what part of Europe NZ is in) but the simple fact is - we are jealous of your prosperity. Really we should be grateful that we do not have as much responsibility. If the US stepped out of world relations, the rest of the world would still moan.
lose - lose. Bummer.
It's your fault you got raped because you wore suggestive clothing.
It's your fault you were hurt in a car wreck because you didn't see the drunk coming toward you would probably make a right turn in front of you.
It's your own fault for working in the US and sending money home to your poor family: you should have dropped out of high school and sat around spouting propaganda about how wicked America is, not immigrating here and working for a living. (several thousand immigrants worked in the NY Trade towers)
It's your own fault for opposing the Russian invasion of Afghanistan,
it's your own fault for opposing Sadam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, and stopping him before he invaded Saudi Arabia.
It's your own fault that Abraham threw out his olderst son Ishmael, and favored his son Isaac
It's your own fault that Charles Martel opposed the Arab invasion at Tours.
it's your own fault that the League of Nations mandated that Balfour Mandate in 1919.,
It's our own fault that (according to the Globe) Ben Laden's sexual apparatus was so puny that a western girl made fun of him, thereby making him hate all Europeans
It's your fault that we didn't nuke Afghanistan instead of sending a one million dollar missle into Ben Laden's ten dollar tent, and merely doing a sigmoidoscopic explosion on his camel
It's our own fault for allowing the British and French to decolonize these pest holds, and allowing these countries to be run by two bit dictators that live high on the hog and allow their own people to live in the dirt.
Did I forget anything?
Such as our meddling in foreign affairs that saved Europe and the world from Hilter,Mussolini and Japan...that saved the Kuwaiti people from Saddam.....that saved Muslim peoples in Bosnia..in Kosovo....that's provided more food and humanitarian aid to Afghanistan's poverty-stricken population than any other country on earth....just as it has done in Somalia and Ethiopia while their own Gov'ts did nothing to help their own people......
This is only part of the list that clearly establishes America as the most benevolent, humanitarian and indeed good nation this world has ever seen.
The author of this article is clearly an example of the inverted mentality and darkened heart of those who defend evil while they show contempt for good.
Pathetic.
Accordingly, the libertarian reformer argues that the United States should dismantle its foreign bases, withdraw its troops from foreign soil, stop its incessant and dangerous political meddling, and abolish the CIA. [] In short, the US government should withdraw totally to within its own borders and maintain a policy of strict political "isolation" or neutrality everywhere.But the practical obstacles confronting our libertarian reformer appear quite massive, and are indeed, well nigh insurmountable.
I'll say. Starting with the U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 2, 1&2, and Article VI, 2. After that, of course, our "libertarian reformer," after having dismantled our military because it is too "large," will have to deal with the small "obstacle" of the barbarians at the gate.
But as an aside, I can't see how a libertarian would have a problem with that (in principle).
This means that it is our own globalist foreign policy -and not any foreign people or organization- which constitutes the greatest threat in the world today to the lives and freedoms of the American people.
Agreed.
IMO, you can reduce this policy down to just three words:
New World Order.
Unbridled hubris, the hallmark of the educrat liberal elitist Marxist American-hating professors...
One wonders, why you would post such a disgusting piece, which (considering a bloody history professor wrote it, is remarkably inaccurate, with regard to historical precedents leading up to this conflict...).
Perhaps, before posting this sort of excretia, you would do a little more research. Like finding out the FACTS...?
Try THIS.
A lie. And a pathetic lie at that. Just because you WANT to characterize American foreign relations as "imperialism" doesn't make it so. Empirically, that is.
We were the same sort of "interventionist" as a cop in a bad neighborhood going after muggers, theives and murderers. If you oppose that sort of "interventionism," you're not welcome in my neighborhood.
Incidentally, advocating the destruction of the United States is neither conservative, nor patriotic.
One of the hallmarks of conservatism is its belief that America, with all her faults, is still the greatest nation on earth, and that it got that way not through "imperialism," "expansionism," "hegemony" or any of the other cliches used to denigrate its achievments. America got where it is by hard work, a sound ethic, and a willingness to stand together when the times called for unity.
None of that ethos is reflected in this polemic. This is "Blame America First" sugar-coated to attract the vacuous crowd. Nice try, but no sale.
Trollin', trollin', trollin'
I like cheese!
This is little more than a disguised attempt to con people into unknowingly supporting a KKK position.
Isn't that the same REMNANT we're trying to get rid of, the ignorant 8 percenters?
1) Research a really nice bio-warfare agent. Perhaps an enhanced, resistent version of smallpox.
2) Come up with an effective vaccine for same.
3) Innoculate the US population, along with the desireables amongst our allies and those worthwhile members of non-allies that we regard as politically reliable.
4) Release the bugs.
5) Enjoy the show!
As you can see propaganda has done it's job well.