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In reply to the discussion: Most of us here were against the invasion of Iraq, correct? [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)tell me 'go tell your government to clean up its own act' before telling anyone else what to do'. That is a risk even for those of us who opposed all these things.
But morally, I think I do have the right to criticize everything I criticized here.
However, I am not the one the world is hearing, our government speaks for us right now when our government does that, they are not on firm ground, due to our own foreign policy.
As for Crimea, I don't know enough about it yet, whether a majority of the people have spoken or not and what THEY want.
And since there was no election in Ukraine, we have no idea how a majority there feel about what happened in Kiev.
Just as in the beginning, I didn't know enough about the Libyan people and blindly supported the 'protesters' initially.
I definitely do NOT trust our corporate media so pretty much take whatever they say on major political issues with a huge grain of salt.
THEY ask War Criminals for advice on foreign policy so not much to go on there.
I get your point, that those of us who oppose our foreign policy of supporting Dictators while invading other countries claiming we are doing for it human rights issues, have the moral authority to speak out on the same issues elsewhere.
But we are not the spokespersons and when someone from our country is caught plotting who to install in Ukraine's 'new' government, it's hard to try to claim we had 'nothing to do with it' especially when that individual was put in power.
Do you believe the Corporate Media here? Should they be asking Dick Cheney for advice on Foreign Policy eg? And if not, where are you getting your information that leads to the conclusions you have made?