@Pinochet73,
Pinochet73;28317 wrote:But they were all Commies? What's your point??????
The point is, it is fucked up policy, and baffoons that support it are equally fucked in the head.
We have had a bad habit of backing groups and leaders based on nothing more than a temporary eye to eye view, and it has turned what was the greatest nation ever into a hypocritical cesspool of greed and corruption. In 1953 we helped sponsor the coup to overthrow Mohammed Mossadeq so that the Bristish could keep Iran from nationalizing and controlling their own oil, and to keep close to communist Russia. That turned out real nice, remember Ayatollah Khomeini? Then there was the debacle in the congo in 1960, that was a fun one. Or how about us arming the same peoples we are now fighting? You know, the mujahideen. We had to make sure those nasty ruskies didn't spread, so yea, lets arm a bunch of islamic fundamentalist, smoooth move. Haiti? Oh yea, did that one too. Then there's always your personal favorite, Pinochet, as western friendly as you want to paint him, he was a ******* murderous bastard, and it's a disgrace we sponsored such a scumbag. We really lowered our morals on that one. And of course our failed littel expedition down south in Venezuela. And lets not forget that some think it's a great idea now arming the sunnis so they can fight AQ in Iraq. These are the same fuckers that have been VBIEDing our bases, and killing their own civilians, but now since they don't like the way AQ is doing things, we somehow have come to the conclusion it's a good idea to give them more guns? Yea, ok, riiight. With their distrust of Americans, and their being pissed off for not being included in the puppet government we installed, I, for some crazy reason, have my reservations about this move.
The point being, we constantly lower our morals as a nation, and spit on the graves of those that have died for it everytime we sponsor yet another murderous thug in the name of "fighting communism", or "fighting terrorism". As a nation we need to hold ourselves to a higher standard, and truely be a world leader. A country others want to model themselves after.