Why do you never seem to care what's done in your name beyond your borders?
From the oppressive regimes propped up in the Middle East, Latin America, Asia and Africa to the lost wars of Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan?
There seems, to an outsider, a lack of critical analysis and confrontation on American media of your governments actions.
Don't you see an irony in Donald Rumsfeld selling chemical weapons to Saddam and then causing an absolute nightmare scenario because of bullishness - that we're American, we're right, we will win and causing tens of thousands of innocent Arabs to die.
Tens of thousands of Americans died in Vietnam but millions of Vietmenese died. A thousand plus Americans die in Iraq - while tens of thousands of Iraqis die. There's a similar relationship with Israel and the Palestinians. The death squads in Latin America of Pinochet and the rest.
Now - to those who are fuming, I adore America and a lot of Americans I meet, but the crux of my question is why?
2006-09-15
13:12:06
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Ben H
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