Very good, Alighieri. So you believe that no nation should pursue a foreign policy that further's its own interests. Well, I wouldn't pay taxes to the U.S. government if they were working in the best interests of some other nation, like Iran's.
The U.S. government's 1st job is to protect Americans. American security faces unprecedented danger right now and that takes precedence over trying to win the goodwill of other countries like France and Germany, for instance.
You know, you play the double game very well, just like the Muslims in the Middle East. They decry the Americans as the oppressors and then go home to oppress their own people. They decry the innocent civilians we kill in our war against the terrorists, then they devise ingenious suicide bomb techniques, which kill more Muslim civilians than the U.S. has during the entire war. They claim we are only after their oil, yet the Muslim despots suck up all the revenues to further their own interests while their people live in poverty.
Should I be ashamed that the U.S. government unabashedly serves the interests of the U.S. people first and then tries to help other countries second? Hell, no. That is the way it should be. However, every now and then the U.S. has an opportunity to solve our own problems by solving a problem in another country. Iraq was just such an opportunity. But evidently, Muslims would rather see a completely destroyed Iraq, rather than allow a democracy to spring up in the heart of their land. For goodness sake, that would erode their ability to oppress their own people with theocratic despotism, wouldn't it? |
