Elroy, you didn't answer the questions. You're evading them.
I discuss things I want to discuss. If I find your question interesting I'll discuss it. If not, I probably wont. That's the way these discussion boards work. Go teach school if you want to dictate the subject of discussion to others.
I notice that it's always a "subjective" determination for you. Are lives being improved by our US deeds? How very arrogant of you.
Your point escapes me. Sometimes US deeds improve other's lives, sometimes not. Why do you call that view - which says its better to analyse each US overseas action independently rather than with broad all encompassing generalizations - arrogant? It just seems a fact to me. It also seems like common sense. I don't get your point.
We quashed Russian imperialism while at the same time in Latin America we were installing dictators to rival Stalin with all the killings.
See, sometime good, sometimes bad. Now you're getting it!
You're a pure hypocrite that cannot see the log in your own eye.
Well I can't understand you, that's for sure. Why are you name calling and what log are you talking about?
Do you wonder why Chavez and most of Latin America are fleeing from the US????Don't think it's because we were kind to them, we raped their resources, set up regimes that killed many of their people, set up civil wars among their peoples to cause discord and disharmony in order for the US to take advantage of the wealth of their countries.
We did all these things? Weren't they adults that control their own destiny and should take responsibility for their own actions, or lack of actions? You make it sound like the USA is the rancher and the people of Latin America just chickens and sheep that we raise and then eat. That kind of view is incredibly arrogant. I think the people of Latin America are equals entitled to do as they please, if they want to buddy up with the USA good for them. If they want to socialize their economy as in Venezuela they can do so, and they will reap the rewards or lack of rewards, but the decisions and the subsequent responsibility for what those decisions produce is theirs, not ours. |
