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In reply to the discussion: My beef with drones is not the boogey-man "on US soil", it's Obama's Bush-Lite Doctrine [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)Why did we install dictators like Saddam Hussein, the Shah of Iraq not to mention all over South America? Why are we still supporting Dictators, with arms and money such as Karamov of Uzbekistan (who makes SH look like a kitty cat)?
When will Americans face up to the fact that our foreign policies of supporting the most brutal leaders against the will of their people, of helping them to kill their own people, of stealing their resources, is simply wrong?
You spent a lot of time justifying a democrat's actions, but the fact is around the world no one cares anymore who is in power in the US. We are viewed as the biggest threat to world peace, regardless. And if you can't see why, then all I can say is I suppose human nature hasn't changed throughout history. Empires never see themselves as doing anything wrong. So we have not evolved at all.
We are wrong, our policies are wrong. A few people then react to those policies in the wrong way and we act all innocent as if we are just poor victims who never did anything to make anyone hate us.
Check out some of the photos over the past several decades of dead children and grieving mothers and fathers around the world due to our actions and try to see them from a pov outside of this country.
The bottom line is there are no excuses for what is going on and in a way, we are getting the government we deserve. It was inevitable that sooner or later our government would bring those policies home and use them against Americans. History shows this to be the pattern.