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In reply to the discussion: Everyone hates ISIS....So what do you want to do about it ? [View all]guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)But it is. The point that I make is that the US does not have the right, obligation, duty to police the world and decide whom to punish and whom to reward. The US would not admit that any other country has the right to interfere. The US has spent 240 years interfering in affairs that do not concern it.
This is your history, admit it or not. The US has invaded, directly or by proxy, nearly every country in the western hemisphere, sometimes multiple times. The US has invaded countries everywhere in the world, using the 700 plus military bases as staging points. That is your history and THAT, not any supposed freedoms, is why the US is not trusted. Emperor Obama is no different from the Emperors before him. He is merely more articulate than the previous Emperor, George the 2nd.
Hurray for American exceptionalism, defined as the exceptional ability to justify actions by Americans that you would not tolerate if performed by others or performed against you.
You might wish to google "blowback".