2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Reading this forum is like reading "Red State" with a big splash of Alex Jones. [View all]Armstead
(47,803 posts)It's not the relatively small number of people who think we should nuke the Middle East that are the problem.
It's the approach of meddling where we should not have been meddling to push American power and Corporate Interests that are the problem. The crises we experience are blow-back from that.
And before you bring up crap about Bernie and Latin American "commies" like Castro there is a huge difference between believing that countries should have self-determination -- and criticizing the abuses of dictators as Bernie does -- and enabling and encouraging rotten behavior to advance the US "model" and impose right-wing corporate states. That is NOT protecting America or promoting democracy.
No way should anything "nice" be said about things like ths:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/27/henry-kissinger-human-rights_n_7454172.html
Kissingers actions in Chile stand out because that is the example he used in arguing that international law gives countries too much latitude to prosecute war crimes. In his June 2001 essay in Foreign Affairs, The Pitfalls of Universal Jurisdiction, Kissinger he claimed that a Spanish judge should not have the power to extradite Pinochet, then living in London, for war crimes Pinochet committed in Chile