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Posted by: populist 2 years, 6 months agoIf you take notes, you will find that American government officials are almost incessantly talking about foreign countries. They criticize the countries. They give them advice. They threaten them, most often with sanctions. The point is that the rest of the world is none of our business.
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foksipayne
June 7, 2007, 6:05 a.m.Great post pop! One of these days the blind will be healed by the light of truth!
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Obaku
June 7, 2007, 1:48 p.m.The American education system, as managed by the federal government, has arranged that the voting public no longer even knows that history exists, or that there are lessons to be learned from it.
Therefore, the politicians are free to repeat every mistake, reprise every tyranny and despotism, all the while proclaiming their surprise and dismay with the few who object to their atrocities.
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Lurch
June 7, 2007, 1:55 p.m.Reminds me of the Bush admin`s outrage over Iranian influence in the occupation in Iraq (as if nobody knew the Iranians, or Saudis, or Syrians, or Russians, or Israelis for that matter, would be involved). The Bush admin cried that the Iranians were bad people for messing in other people`s business. Then, one week after that hubbub died down, the Bush admin announced it would be spending tens of millions messing in Iranian domestic affairs.
I know, the hypocrisy of this admin is astounding, but since the right-wing media is still giving him a free pass, in a way, can you blame him/them?
Last I heard, the Iranians caught several of our spies and now the Bush admin is calling for the Iranians to let them go. Naturally, the Bush admin refused to release the Iranian spies we caught a couple months ago.
What are the odds the rest of the world hasn`t noticed the hypocrisy or the Bush admin?
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toph1973
June 7, 2007, 4:11 p.m.Our government needs to quit criticizing what other countries do. They are sovereign nations and as such we have no business criticizing them. Our government needs to focus on the myriad of problems that we currently have domestically. Who cares if France has nude beaches with nude children and adults running around, or that Pot is legal in the Netherlands, or prostitution is legal in Germany. Instead of looking down at other countries because they do something different maybe we should look at other countries for the ideas that they have that may be better than ours. Different doesn't mean wrong. But our government seems to think so.
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Lurch
June 7, 2007, 5:07 p.m.Only five `sinks` so far from the "don`t hold america accountable" crowd.
I`m disappointed.
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KYRed
June 7, 2007, 5:17 p.m.Yeah, let's stay out of other countries. Let's isolate ourselves except for trade.
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agentX
June 7, 2007, 6:27 p.m.I disagree partially with the author's sentiments. We are bound by international law to put a stop to genocide and threats to peace. We morally have a duty to help those who are less fortunate in such terms as preventing the spread of TB, because in doing so, we protect our own nation.
However, nowhere in international law or decorum does it say that we should sell rival factions weapons in civil war (like arms merchants did in the Congo, Liberia, etc), subsidize the rape of indiginous people's lands by oil/mining companies (see Nigeria, S. Columbia, Brazil), overthrow leaders (Chile, Venezuela, Vietnam) criticize nations for building or acquiring nuclear weapons while we are not meeting our own disarmament goals (Russia, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea), criticizing countries for torturing citizens/d... when we do it RIGHT HERE in our own prisons AND pay foreign countries to do it for us (Egypt, Yemen, Central Asian Republics), and have the gall to say God is okay.
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TreeHugginCommunist
June 7, 2007, 6:31 p.m.I sunk this post.
Although the man is knowledgeable of the tendencies of American foreign policy, he is pessimistic, and that is something we cannot afford to be in this dangerous world we live in today. Hope, compasion, empathy, and forgiveness is what America should be about.
Being the most powerful nation the world has ever known, what would we be if we were to tell people who were being genocidically persecuted that we wont help them? America should help all those in need, especially those who cannot defend themselves.
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Gwanpaw
June 7, 2007, 6:35 p.m.In the last couple of days Bush has been criticizing Putin about his backsliding on democracy. In the meantime Bush has been rolling back democracy in the US, sidestepping laws and ignoring internationl laws. It's absolutely amazing how Bush and Mrs Rice continue to wag their fingers at other countries criticizing their behavior when Bush has the worst record in our recorded history regarding the abuse of rights, laws and democratic practices. It's downright emhbnarassing to be a US citizen today with that idiot Bush running loose in the world.
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icono1
June 7, 2007, 8:36 p.m.Love the article; sounds like the man knows his American political history well.
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Reignman
June 7, 2007, 11:46 p.m.Once again more ignorant crap from you tree hugging liberal loons... What about Putin threatening to bomb Europe... HUMM.. Thats worth our president commenting on ISNT IT YOU FREAKS!!! OR what about Adminejad threatening war with Israel.. Now our President should just sit back and twiddle his thumbs.... Seriously you cracked out morons need to check yourselves into a mental institution because that is where YOU BELONG!!!!
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HannibalBarca
June 8, 2007, 12:13 a.m.Reignman:us tree huggin liberal loons know something you don't,it is called history.Maybe you should try reading it then look at a map, figure out where all the US military bases in the world are, then look at Russia, they have a good reason to be parinoid,US politics made it that way.To think that you consider yourself a rational person. You, one of the few remaining idiots that would support the repugs that are in the running for the presidency, yeah those 9 out of 10 canidates who have no qualms about nuking Iran if elected and you say we belong in a nut house?Get real
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