Cutting through Inaugural rhetoric

[iamthewalrus109]

Originally Posted by russotto

You only learn that interventionism is a cause for terrorism if you take some of Osama bin Laden's proclamations at face value.

Perhaps Osama would have preferred if the US had failed to intervene in Afghanistan.... when the USSR held it.

Regardless of the comment above, and regardless of the Afgan war, the effects of interventionism, starting with our imperial era conquest of the Phillipines, has always landed the US into more trouble than its worth. As we "export" "democracy", our own democratic rights and freedoms are impinged due to the metteling of the defense/corporate arm of this country. Capitalism depends on new enterprises and an abundacy of resources. As we strafe the earth of what's left, precious time and the environment are laid to waste. For the world to be entirely free and enterprising a new frontier has to be saught and as long as jaugernauts like the US bully smaller countries into our way of thinking, resentment will be at a all time high.

As far as intervention goes, it comes down to rationale. What is the United States' true rationale for interveing or invading, many see it as greed and averest. Even at the most idealistic, the US invades a country like Iraq, for it's own security and freedom, which in and of itself is greedy and selfish. As I have said before its all but for a few. The biggest lemon sold to the US public is that the rich's intrests and money making is what makes the peons money.

-Walrus