Okay that's true Monte. :2wave: Yes the US has backed terrorists before. Even some that were not considered terrorists at the time. Yes the US is not Perfect Angels. Yes the US has started **** to deal with those that have cost us or affected us. But it is okay for those out there to hurt the US and its people Right? I mean in your eyes.....and from what you have stated around here in each area of US Foreign Policy. The US can never do anything Right? Just screw up according to you, and we should Always avoid confrontation with all others on the Planet. Even if affects us a Country. Even if others kill our people Right?
Its okay for Others to declare War on the US....Right? Okay for them to kidnap and kill our people.....Right? Destroy our businesses, in whatever way they can, Right? We should never do anything but run away and stick our heads into the sand with our asses up in the air.....Right? I mean That's how your point comes across Monte. That's the US should never even come out of their House. Just hide and do nothing at all times. What do you think the whole Planet is going to hold hands and sing Kumbai-ya in the Future or something? Were you looking for Paradise and or slice of Heaven here where mankind exists?
You constantly bash the US over their policy yet say nothing of any others Policy whatsoever.....do you think everyone else should be scrutinized as well? What about Russian Policy? Chinese Policy? What about Arab policies? Should they be allowed to do whatever they want? Got any thing to say when they start **** Monte? Other than awww man they shouldn't be doing that.
Default position is to refer to some sort of anti-Americanism.
Seems like I've pointed this out to you in the past, but again. It would appear at first that you are unaware that OIL is the interest of America in the Middle East, not humanitarian missions. Those missions are responses, when we see them. As with the current response to IS in northern Iraq. IS, is what they are today, with the strength they have today due to US/Western support for the rebels fighting president Assad in Syria. Rebels that only the least informed deny have been composed of militant Islamists from AQ, MB, al Nusra and others. There was a lot of hand wringing about US arms ending up with them and now its apparent that much did, strengthening and emboldening IS who has spread out of Syria into Iraq and is a threat to other neighbours as well.
Everything we've done in the ME is related to ensuring the free uninterrupted flow of oil from the ME to all points around the globe. So every drop of blood, rebels, insurgents, terrorists, civilians, diplomats, US soldiers, soldiers from ally countries, all spent to maintain that flow of oil.
Often times though it backfires, and oil is restricted, or a group like IS fighting president Assad, something that fits nicely with US policy, gets too strong and takes their agenda elsewhere creating a crisis for us, a fire that we now have to go stomp out.
As to your point that I don't criticise other countries, again, as I have pointed out before, I'm an American, my tax dollars fund US operations, therefore its what the US does that concerns me. Let the Chinese citizens complain about what Chinas doing if they don't like it. If you see something you don't like that the Chinese are doing, voicing a complaint about it here at DP can have no effect.
I constantly "bash" US policy, and not the policies of others you say. You MMC constantly bash Obama and the Democratic Party, yet hold the GOP up as some sort of standard bearer, when in fact, they are responsible for as much of the problems in the ME as the democrats are. Where's your criticism of Bush, and Bush policy to open wars in A-Stan and Iraq, which started all this **** to begin with? Do you know that a majority of Americans now believe BOTH those wars to have been errors.
I just can't wait till Americans start paying MORE attention, and denying presidents the opportunity to involve the US in wars of choice, or pre-emptive wars. Syria last summer was promising, with 70% of Americans being against US military intervention there.
To your claims that I think the US should burry our heads in the sand, never come out of the house and hide and do nothing at all times is preposterous, and I'd prefer to believe that you didn't even mean it, but on your rant just ran afoul of reality a little.
Another point I've made on repeated occasions is that (though you didn't in this post) people like to through the word isolationist around at folks such as myself, because we prefer a more peaceful, non interfering, non interventionist foreign policy, that may be good for the interests of some in America, but usually are injurious to those in other countries. We never think that the US should turn inward and lock the gates and put our heads in the sand. We should maintain embassies around the world, help with epidemics, aids, starvation, homelessness, water quality, aid in the form of advanced agricultural technology, disaster relief, joint projects like dams and bridges that improve the quality of life for people, the Olympics and tourism, trade/business, and all the other things that are POSITIVE in nature. And we do plenty of that, and I have no criticism with those aspects of US foreign policy and of course, like Ron and Rand Paul as well as many libertarians think that all that should continue.
You paint a picture of me, my position as being against everything the US does which is far from accurate as should be clear now. My criticism of foreign policy is very limited and FOCUSED!
