Quote from tampa:
Here's something they didn't teach you - my Government, my people as a whole could not have cared less about your oppression. My Government spent itself into oblivion, trying to force Russia into spending itself into oblivion not to free you, but to keep the idea of communism from spreading across the Atlantic.
And boy, oh boy, did it WORK, baby!! Does that upset you?
Communism sucks if you are into banking, insurance, mortgage writing, or any number of other interests that drive and control our capitalistic system
or freedom of speech, freedom to try and better yourself, freedom to live without fear of being jailed or worse when you criticize your government, etc, etc. Interesting that you forgot to mention those points and instead tried to make it all about economics.
a system I approve of, but for God's sake, don't kid yourself into thinking we did it for you - we didn't.
Of course we did it for ourselves first - is any nation going to commit the capital and manpower we did
solely for the good of others? But in doing so we not only managed the collapse of communism but freed millions, skeptic123 included. That you ridicule him, a person who has benefited directly from our policies, only shows that you would rather rail against your government then admit for an instant that our policies WERE SUCCESSFUL.
Korea - it had nothing to do with saving South Korea for Democracy - it had to do with the absurd "Domino theory".
The Domino Theory was absurd? Okay, I guess the ex-USSR had no intention of spreading its dogma. Eastern European countries were communist as a choice of the people. ROFL! And last I checked, S. Korea was a democracy, unlike it's northern neighbor.
Kuwait - George the First at first said it was to restore democracy to Kuwait, until reminded that Kuwait was anything but a democracy. He then sold it as protecting America's "right" to middle eastern oil - that did the trick, not restoring democracy.
Ahem, not just America's right, but the
world's right to the oil. Or would you have been content to let Saddam remain and then go into Saudi Arabia or other neighbors?
Afghanistan? No one in this country gave a crap for the oppressed Afghanistan people, let alone the women..we were pissed at the terrorist camps - period.
Quite a sweeping statement. So American humanitarian agencies tried to do nothing at all, huh?
Rewrite all the history you care to, but it does not change the facts. We "care" about the oppressed when it otherwise suits OUR purposes.
This statement of yours succinctly excludes the millions of dollars US agencies and NGOs spend every year around the world. You seem to require that the US help the entire world, otherwise it is guilty of hypocrisy or worse. In every foreign policy venture you find blame, regardless if the results have been beneficial to the country in question. You want the US to be everything to all people. Not possible.
