Wow is all I can say...
So here we have, "oh we could invade you and take your minerals and stuff..."
Well dude do some history... War of 1812 ring any bells? Remember it was Canada that burned down the Whitehouse!
But raising that point makes me think this is why there is a serious chasm between the world and America.
Some, not all American's think that they can dictate things through the might of the military... Well here is my comment, go ahead try it! I mean Iran is making a mockery of that argument! Do you really think Russia is scared?
I am not Anti-America, far from it. What I am is anti-imperialist! There is a BIG difference. The founding fathers were not imperialists! The current batch of folks in this current administration are not the founding fathers, nor George Washington. If you go back in history and read Washington's farewell speech you will see America today is not America before.
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http://www.fff.org/freedom/1001f.asp
Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest guided by our justice shall counsel.
Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?
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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand, neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences;
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The last paragraph should make ALL Americans think...
Nobody less than George Washington himself said that America should hold out an equal and impartial hand and should interact with countries in a harmonious and liberal manner!
What HAPPENED AMERICA!