Greenwald calls USA "lawless, rogue empire" in defense of Snowden

[NuclearDem]

103. We funded right-wing rape squads in Nicaragua flagrantly against the law

And the overthrow of the democratically-elected Iranian government in 1953 gave us the 1979 revolution and the Iran we know today.

The examples you list there are cases of the US responding to imperial expansions of foreign powers and brutal occupations of conquered territories. The examples I listed are cases of the US responding to either democratic election of leaders the US didn't like, the nonsense axiom of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", and failed policies of the War on Terror.

Let me be clear: I'm not saying other countries should have a vote in our government or dictate policy. What I am saying is that our failure to understand or even acknowledge what our foreign policy does to the people of these countries always comes back to bite us later. Even if the threat of blowback isn't enough to discourage it, a lot of what we're doing is morally repugnant.