Since when is freedom an imposition?
I'm glad you asked that question...
The so-called beneficiaries of our brand of "freedom" haven't always been grateful, especially when it means the overthrow of elected regimes, installation of US-sponsored despots or unilateral military invasion. I'm surprised you aren't aware of that, but that shows clearly the demarcation of thought. OSS-led takeover of Italian politics after WWII by OSS worked so well they expanded to completely unaccountable worldwide adventures by the CIA and ONI ever since.
I'm in the camp that thinks we have been, and still are, the best country in the world -- but we'll lose that when we bow to the DOD/Industrial Hyperpower hubris of continuing on the path of secret preemptive overthrow of governments, and, even worse, secretly influencing our own domestic politics.
Both are fatal to democracy, are of course vehemently denied by those responsible for the past several decades, even tho' the facts show otherwise.
It's too much of a temptation for secret warmaking authority to avoid becoming the same as the warlords we are fighting. Look at the association between Saudis and Bush. Secrecy breeds criminality, plain and simple.
Have you read whatreallyhappened.com, unansweredquestions.org, or any other dissenting websites? If one wants to believe, as you appear to, in the infallibility of American leadership, answering the questions posed by those alternative websites is a good excercise in intellectual honesty. |
