Unkotare
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- Aug 16, 2011
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I was sitting here wondering how a man with such a short sighted, Idealist, and dangerous set of ideas on US foreign policy could get so much support. Then I did some research and found over 70% of his supporters are 28 or Younger.
Finally it makes sense, to young to understand why the US needs to remain engaged, but old enough to have lived through 9/11 and all the blaming of US policy for it.
They actually think if we had just minded our own business for the last 60 years everything would be ok. They have actually been siting a UN report on the Decline of War over the last 50 years as evidence we do not need to meddle. Completely ignoring the fact that is is because we have meddled, and played cop for the last 60 Plus years that war has been on the Decline.
The problem isn't that we are engaged, but that we are carrying all the load.
We spend more on our military than the rest ofthe world combined. Six of the next ten top spenders are our allies - UK, France, Germany, Japan, Canada, Italy.
And a big part of the problem is that our foreign policy seems to be about supporting Israel for no good reason and furthering the interests of corporations. Neither of which does these 28 year olds much good in their future.
Also, a subject no one wants to discuss. We make a lot of our own problems.
Saddam Hussein was a good buddy of the CIA. They supported his initial coup, and we turned a blind eye while he waged war against Iran for nearly a decade. Then he invaded Kuwait and became the bad guy.
We armed a bunch of crazy muslims in Afghanistan to fight the Soviets because they were teaching women how to read, including one named Osama Bin Laden. Oddly, these were the same people who turned on us on 9/11.
We can't keep sticking our hand in the hornet's nest and then complain about getting stung. And we can't go about raising up bigger, nastier hornets and then bitch when they sting us.
You're stupid enough to be the love child of Ron Paul and Rev. Wright.