WHY US was silent when Turkey invaded Cyprus? When america was silent when china invaded TIbet in 1962?

Answer 1

It was in a different time zone and we were asleep.

Please try to invade between 9 am and 5 pm Washington DC time so we don't have to pay the president overtime.

Answer 2

That is incorrect.

The U.S. government engaged in an action-reaction of arms sales to Greece and Turkey. Until 1997, the U.S. government sought to manage the Greek-Turkish arms race by providing aid and arms on a 7:10 basis. That is, for every $7 million of arms sold or given to Greece, Turkey received $10 million. But beyond balancing the financial aid, the U.S. government sells or gives the same weapons systems to both sides to maintain the balance.
http://fas.org/asmp/profiles/greece.htm

The US vigorously complained on China's invasion of Tibet, however, short of an invasion there was little the US could do at the time. Remember that then China was backed militarily by the Soviet Union.

As for America being silent you should use the proper names, you see, there is no such a thing as ‘American’ nationality, America is not a nation America is a continent with many nations in it. The US never named itself the name of the United States is a designation it comes from the end of the Declaration of Independence, "WE, therefore, the Representatives of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in GENERAL CONGRESS, Assembled...". The preamble to the U.S. Constitution reiterated the phrase: "We the People of the United States..." (The authors of these two documents probably used the phrase "united states" in place of a list of colonies/states because they remained uncertain at the time of drafting which colonies/states would sign off on the sentiments therein.) The geographic term "America" specifies the states' home on the American continent.

It is therefor incorrect to refer to US citizens as Americans with the intent of denoting citizenship, or the United States as America with the intent of denoting a nation. Americans have a term for US citizens, we are called United Statesians by the rest of Americans, to say American with the intent of denoting citizenship or America when we mean the United States reflects poorly on our attitude towards the 70% of Americans that are not United Statesians.

Also, although some people would like to believe that America is not one but two continents North America and South America. If you think about it though the term U.S. of A. is a glaring example that this line of thought is incorrect, if America was two continents instead of one, shouldn’t it be U.S. of N.A. (North America)? We say Columbus discovered..... ? AMERICA, not South America or North America.

Hope that helps

Answer 3

Hi Stonecold,

The problem is always the same in every part of the world.
We can't only judge political strategy and action of USA.
If you think carefully , during 90's Europe took action too late to stop civil war in ex-Yugoslavia?
Why all Italians and British and other European forces decided too late to send a neutral army ?
Probably my answer is not enough but believe , History is full of events where nobody has found a concrete resolution.
Bye.

Simon (from Milan -Italy).

Answer 4

Because it is the job of the U.N. to step up to the plate and take charge. Unfortunately, they never do.

The U.S. is not the policeman or the disciplinarian for the world. Personal responsibility is a great thing and more people (and countries) should assume just that. Interesting how many choose to blame others rather than look in the mirror.

Answer 5

We have to be invited in by the invaded government.

And besides; Iraq violated a Peace Treaty already in place with the US for the invasion of Kuwait in 1990, violated at least 12 UN Resolutions. How many chances are they supposed to get.

That is your point; right?

I am willing to bet, you send you kids to timeout for everything too.

Don't be surprised when they shoot you when you tell them "no" as a teenager one day.

Answer 6

Turkey is an ally of the United States, so we were not going to make a huge deal out of them invading a small island country that is relatively unimportant on the global scale. At this point and at that point, we need all the (secular) Muslim allies we can get.

Answer 7

They weren't. They tried it diplomatically and had leaders wise enough to see that military steps were not advisable. Unlike the present "administration"

Answer 8

We were more worried about the cold war with Russia and the Cuban missile crisis and Vietnam and so on .

Answer 9

We go somewhere everyone gets mad, then we don't and they get mad, We're tired of policing the world. Can the rest of you try some self-discipline.

Answer 10

We were pre-occupied w/ other situations.


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