We like to cast noose strings down to countries that will not obey us. When the puppet-master moves his fingers, the puppet has no choice but to dance to his will.
Power doesn't only come from strength of arms... Again, this question is a fallacy. One power doesn't need to govern world trade and dominate world politics. One power doesn't need to force the rest of the world to bend to its will. The better alternative involves countries trading and exchanging with each other freely. It does not involve bombing and attacking each other. Violence begets violence. Also, if you're going to make the argument from history, I must remind you that just because something hasn't happened before doesn't mean that it can't happen or is some rosy-red tinted kumbaya fantasy. A superpower holding people at gunpoint isn't required to facilitate free trade and prosperity for the people of Earth. The United States occupying dozens of countries around the world isn't even close to the best possible situation. The United States executing people in dozens of countries around the world isn't even close to the best possible situation. The United States holding people illegally in secret prisons all around the world isn't even close to the best possible situation. Some of the actions perpetrated by the United States, both within the US and in other countries around the world, are downright evil. Admitting faults is nice, but how about some justice? Our society allows for all of the things I have named. These actions (and many more I have not mentioned) are anything but tolerant, innovative, prosperous, or pro-freedom. The United States has hidden loads of different things from the world. Many of these horrendous actions have come out of the woodwork, but how many remained uncovered/secret?
we're just primitive these years. i think i should have been born about 300 years before or after now.
Without reading anything from this thread except a few bits from the first post, I have a very important thought for you all to ponder. Why do you believe America is the perfect leader? What gives America the right to invade other countries and take over, peaceful or not? While helping countries in trouble is okay, anything beyond that makes YOU the bad guys. It's not your country, and so it's not your choice to decide the outcome of anything in any other country. The one thing that gets me about you Americans is that you feel like you need everything. And it's destroying the world.
British, Dutch, Spanish, French, and Italian colonialism already destroyed the world a long time ago. Notice how the most henious of places are those where arbitrary lines were drawn by Europeans, not Americans.
Although not directed at me I'll answer Afghanistan for one, don't really know what you constitute as invading. If you count invading with missiles, then there are countless countries, like Syria for instance. I would like to point out, although our leaders love to spin the whole "we invade to help" thing is invading another country really helping them at all? Or are they just saying that, because of an ulterior motive? I tend to believe the latter, because the government has a track record of being very deceitful. Pertaining to the OP, no you didn't convince me, please try again.
...Afghanistan we helped the world by suppressing terrorism. Syria we are trying to stop a genocide. Iraq we took out a dictator who poisoned thousands of people of no reason. I don't understand how America doesn't help.
No we didn't. All we did was bomb the fuck out of Afghanistan and change their government to one that bends to our will. Since occupation and control of foreign countries is what causes terrorism, we have contributed to a rise in terrorist activity. Lol, we're not in Syria, they don't have any oil so we don't care about their people. Maybe you're thinking of Libya? We killed over 100,000 civilians to take him out, and only to put in a government that served our interests before their own people.
List of countries we've bombed since WWII China 1945-46 Korea 1950-53 China 1950-53 Guatemala 1954 Indonesia 1958 Cuba 1959-60 Guatemala 1960 Belgian Congo 1964 Guatemala 1964 Dominican Republic 1965-66 Peru 1965 Laos 1964-73 Vietnam 1961-73 Cambodia 1969-70 Guatemala 1967-69 Lebanon 1982-84 Grenada 1983-84 Libya 1986 El Salvador 1981-92 Nicaragua 1981-90 Iran 1987-88 Libya 1989 Panama 1989-90 Iraq 1991 Kuwait 1991 Somalia 1992-94 Bosnia 1995 Iran 1998 Sudan 1998 Afghanistan 1998 Yugoslavia (Serbia) 1999 Afghanistan 2001 Libya 2011 Just sayin'
Yes i agree... The reality is a media blitz to demonize the target. They start making spurious claims of "lethal weapons"... The average Joe American will go with it... Lets face it Joe buys anything the telly tells him... Then its off to the UN to bully the other countries into backing the attack... "You are with us or you are a supporter of terrorism" Then invade in the usual bumbling style and start making $$$ for NeoCon Inc... Contracts, Contracts, Contracts...
Our gas is cheaper than most places (not sure about the saudis?). So apparently our leaders are telling us some things right. Money talks. Bomb some brown people (I'm arab btw), low prices? Sweet deal, less muslims in the world. Maggots, they are.
Nope, those aren't US military conflicts. Those are the countries the US has flat-out bombed. Although a few of those conflicts we did have military in.