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One Response to “AlterNet: America Loves Peace? Odd, Since We’re Always at War”

1. ben stagg said:

   The list of America’s military incursions is indeed sobering, but the article ignores the position America has occupied in the world for the last fifty years.
   Before that, when Great Britain held the reigns, the issue was simplified by the establishment of Empire.
   America has been dragged kicking and sceeming into the global arena and it has been it’s very reluctance that has caused a lot of it’s problems.
   If you are the undisputed number one world power, you are going to have world issues placed on your doormat and America has not been psychologically well equiped to deal with them. It has tried ‘spheres of influence’ and ‘limited engagements’, in fact anything rather than Empire. This has been it’s achilles heel. To have influence by proxy will always backfire and will lead to, yes, War.
   Nevertheless, I regard the american people as essentially peace loving, while also acknowleging their crucial contributions to the two world wars. In both cases, it was not the Wars they got wrong, it was the deals struck between the victors at the end of them. Americans are just not really interested in anywhere but America. If Roosevelt and Truman had listened more to Churchill, someone who actually knew how the world worked, a lot of the grief that they have subsequently suffered could have been avoided.
   And to compare the US’s war record to China, France and Cuba is ridiculous. For China, think Tibet, for France think Vietnam and Algeria, for Cuba, think missile sites and Cuban troops sent to Africa.
   There is no level playing field here, something that I am so often finding with AlterNet.

   Posted on 09-Mar-08 at 3:52 am | Permalink