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In reply to the discussion: My Wife Believes American Workers Being Positioned To Accept Lower Living Standard. [View all]avebury
(10,964 posts)is that the Bush Jr Administration was never held responsible for getting us into the 2nd Gulf War. The US has committed some of the same crimes that we charged other countries post WWII (for example Nuremberg Trials). I never thought, growing up, that this country would become a nation that condones torture. One might say that we have become a nation of do as we say not as we do.
More people around the world view the US as the biggest threat to peace then any other group/nation. Like it or not we have become the big bully on the block.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/02/greatest-threat-world-peace-country_n_4531824.html
I don't think that you can view the US as the moral arbiter of the world. We have become that which we have feared in the past. And look at what is going on within this country. There is more and more effort to take away our civil and constitutional rights. Again, our government (i.e. actions pushed by the Republican/Tea Party agenda) are turning our country into the type of country that we have spoken out against in other countries around the world.
The people on the street don't want war but we have people in higher office who, once we pull out of one place (most recently Iraq) are busy looking for a new place to invade and they will game the system until they succeed.
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