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by ahelwer 2009 days ago
The USA does not promote peace nor democracy. This is not the result of good intentions gone awry. This is exactly what is intended.

We really have learned nothing from Vietnam. There, too, unrestricted murder of children was justified as removing future enemies.
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chrisco255 2009 days ago
There's corruption in our bureaucracies and most Americans are blissfully unaware of it. Whose responsibility is it to inform Americans on this point and why have they failed to do so?
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ahelwer 2009 days ago
What corruption? This is all intentional. America benefits greatly from mass murder & destruction of countries who are insufficiently deferential to the hegemony. Countries can't keep natural resources to themselves; American corporations must be let in to siphon wealth back to the imperial core. Don't like it? Enjoy having your economy destroyed & government overthrown. With a few generations' worth of atrocities just for good measure.
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chrisco255 2009 days ago
No it doesn't. An elite class of beltway insiders benefits to the detriment of the greatest portion of the American public. We've spent trillions on war and what return has the average American seen? Middle class is squeezed out. And no, our economy does not recoup as much as we spend on unproductive wars. Our economy was fine when we were non-interventionist.
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drewcoo 2009 days ago
> what return has the average American seen?

A return to the polls to vote for more of the same!

> when we were non-interventionist

When exactly was that? Was it when the US was only indirectly involved via education, assistance, and spook-craft? When it was only involved in "police actions" and not wars? Are we strictly speaking about the US government or also US corporations? The US has always been involved in foreign conflicts from the start.

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AndrewBissell 2009 days ago
> A return to the polls to vote for more of the same!

Actually no, in 2008 Obama won a solid victory while sounding notes of change and ending the wars. Then he got elected and did what he was put there to do, which was sell the people out.

The elites have been exercising their veto over the peace vote since 11/22/63.

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