12-23-2011, 01:45 PM
(12-23-2011, 01:35 PM)Duchess Wrote:
That's the one & only reason I don't comment on it too often, I don't know what the answer is and I couldn't even begin to guess but there has to be a better way than forcing our beliefs/systems on others.
Because the people aren't getting to choose over there. They are born into their circumstances and live a shitty existence. America thinks if we help them overthrow their dictators they will get the freedom they crave. We shake our heads every time we help them topple a gov't only to replace it with the same kind of gov't.
Democracy is learned. If you don't educate the general population, they never get a chance to learn that.
I don't know what the answer is, but I wouldn't love this country so much if we just let them wipe out entire villages of people or fill numerous mass graves. Somebody has to say something or do something. We are the least chicken shit modern nation on Earth. The Brits, EU, Japan, etc just let them kill each other. America tries to help.
It is who we are. If we get a good deal on oil for our troubles, good for us. The other fuckers let us fight the fights then make economic deals with our enemies. Are they better nations?