is the usa reaping the harvest it sowed for itself?

Question

cuba, angola, iran, iraq,grenada, libya, just a few examples of usa covert ops so can i suggest that the usa is now paying the piper

Answer 1

Pat, your question is a valid one, and is repeatedly asked. It reminds me of a 60-Minutes episode in which Lesley Stahl interviewed some teenage boys attending an elite English-style Prep School in their home country (Pakistan or India; I forgot which).

Lesley asked the boys about 9-11, and I think was expecting a sympathetic response, considering they were receiving a Western style education. However, the boys just began spouting jihadist nonsense about how the U.S. was getting what it deserved, and started a vitriolic verbal attack on how bad the U.S. is, emphasizing how the U.S. mistreated Muslims around the world.

Now, you have to keep in mind that 60-Minutes is a very liberal show, so I expected Lesley to commiserate with the boys and give them a tearful, Barbara Walters moment. Instead, in a surprising lack of composure, Lesley Stahl looked at these boys squarely in the eyes and said something like, "ARE YOU CRAZY? All the United States has done is PROTECT Muslims! What about all the time, money and effort we've expended to defend Muslims from slaughter in Bosnia, Somalia, Palestine, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan. How about our staunch defense of Muslims against Slobodan Milosevich?"

It was a classic moment in tv history: the liberal journalist reading the riot act to a bunch of pampered, spoiled kids who didn't know what they were talking about.

Answer 2

What harvest? What sowing?

Cuba - The government in there now overthrew the government we were friends with, then tried to put some nuclear missles on it with in launching range of us.

Iran - We were allied with the Shah's regime and at that time Iran was actually allied with Isreal. Its government was overthrown in 1979 and they decided that it would be neat to over run our embassy too and take them hostage. Was our being friendly with a government in the region a major crime here?

Iraq - invaded Kawait in 1991 and was threatening to invade Saudi Arabia who is also an allie of ours leading to the UN action of pushing them back out. It is well known that they had dealings with our first WTC bombings. After 9/11 they knew we had itchy trigger fingers and called our bluff on UN inspectors. Now they have a new government. The terrorist have had an escalating campaign over the past 20 years and are now deathly afraid of a US friendly coutry in the middle east. It is no wonder they want us to fail there and why they are fighting us so hard.

Granada - Cuban nationals overran a college there taking quite a few US students hostage. We ran a resque opperation that got them back to America. I guess it would have been better policy to just let them possibly get killed by their captors?

Libya - They decided to redraw international boundries and claimed a lot of the Meditaranian as their own. Naturally the best way for them to declare this was to set up missle platforms and threaten US shipping, not our warships of coarse, just civilian transport. Which lead to our bombing of that country. I guess our policy should be to pay extortion to any state that decides we need to (which is why they did that to begin with).


So really US policy has not led to our conflicts. A lot of what we do is reactioary to threats that come at us. Most unprovoked.

Answer 3

So you think we should have let our enemies take over those countries and put launching platforms there and let them kill the Kurds off too? Brilliant!
You need to do more research on why we did those things.

Answer 4

It's been reaping what it's sowed for a long time. The consequences have just gotten bigger.

Answer 5

In general, I'd say that is a fair assessment.

God help us all.

Answer 6

ummmmm

how exactly are we paying?

I don't think that a lot of people bitching constitutes "paying".

Answer 7

somewhat, but the worst is yet to come. I fear.