According to your logic, Hitler was the problem with Germany, not underlying general anti-semitism of not only Germany, but Europe as a whole. I suppose we put him in power as well? And you can not argue that we helped cause the conditions which precipitated his rise, because the US did not sign the Versailles treaty.
I suppose it was leaders in the Balkans of all ethnicities, like Milo, that invented the hatred that caused disasters such as in Kosovo. I suppose it is factional leaders in Rwanda and throughout Africa that are the root of ethnic hatred between Tutsis and Hutus. Politicians, without a coup, are only able to do what is within the bounds of the existing institutions and public opinion. That is why slavery was allowed to exist for 100 years in the US, not without ardent opposition may I add, and only took the greatest shedding of blood in American history to resolve. But I suppose you will overlook that case of "might makes right." And that is why Milo is able to conduct his terror against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, and is also why he was able to support ethnic Serb atrocities in Bosnia (they were only giving as good as they got, I must add). You are either terribly naive or underestimate the power of hatred when placed in the hands of a justificatory political ideology. If you want to blame the US for everything in the Balkans, then blame us for waiting too long to stop it. |
