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In reply to the discussion: We are the "evil empire" we warned everybody about [View all]brush
(53,745 posts)He's got some points there.
If you think terrorizing and killing people in countries thousands of miles from here with drones piloted remotely on screens by our military here in this country like a video game is not the stuff of evil empire, think again.
That kind of stuff creates hundreds of enemies of our country every day those drones kill.
Of course there will be blow back. There is no question of that. How is comes we don't know but denial is not shelter.
And the drones are just our latest. We've been involved in coups, assassinations, occupations and wars continuously since we assisted ex-pat American planters who wanted more acreage in Hawaii in the 1890s in overthrowing the Hawaiian monarchy.
And the coups, assassinations, occupations and wars have continued non-stop since then, all under the guise of spreading liberty and freedom, but really about using our military for corporations to gain access to other countries' (non-white countries) natural resources.
Read "Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change" by Stephen Kinzer. He lays it all out chonologically. There has not been a time since the 1890s that we haven't been involved in . . . well, evil empire behavior.
Sorry, but it's true. At least our current president has resisted getting involved in new and prime corporate war candidates like Egypt, Syria and Libya where much oil could have been reaped.