Why do so many liberals view America as imperial aggressors?

Question

Lunatic I do read history and that;s the reason for this question.

Answer 1

Because they seem to hate America and all we stand for. We feed more of the world than any other nation. We give more money to stop AIDS than any other country. It is never enough for the liberals. I believe most of this is caused by the generation of dope smoking, free love hippies from the 60's that now poison the minds of our young people by pretending to be teachers in our universities.

Answer 2

I suppose it's all in how you define your terms, but I imagine that liberals are just a bit oversensitive to those moments in the last 100 years or so when the U.S. has overthrown or attemped to overthrow the sovereign government of another country, or just plain invaded, as a for instance:

1893 – Hawaii
1912 – China
1918 – Panama
1919 – Hungary
1920 – USSR
1924 – Honduras
1946 – Thailand
1946 – Argentina
1947 – Philippines
1947 – Romania
1948 – Colombia
1948 – Peru
1949 – Syria
1949 – China
1950 – Albania
1951 – Bolivia
1951 – DPRK
1951 – Poland
1951 – Thailand
1952 – Cuba
1952 – Lebanon
1953 – British Guyana
1953 – Iran
1953 – Costa Rica
1953 – Philippines
1954 – Guatemala
1955 – Costa Rica
1955 – India
1955 – Argentina
1955 – China
1955 – Vietnam
1956 – Hungary
1957 – Egypt
1957 – Haiti
1957 – Syria
1958 – Japan
1958 – Chile
1958 – Iraq
1958 – Laos
1958 – Sudan
1958 – Lebanon
1958 – Indonesia
1959 – Laos
1959 – Nepal
1959 – Cambodia
1960 – Ecuador
etc. up to the present day.

Not all of those listed were successful - sometimes U.S. attempts to subvert internal political processes backfire. And some interventions are less frowned upon than others: the 1991 invasion of Haiti seemed more like a genuine attempt to restore democracy to a troubled land than naked power politics. Sometimes it's sending in the Marines, and sometimes it's just the CIA monkeying around with the elections.

But it's the relentlessness of the interference that might seem "imperialist" to some folks, and the frequency with which violence or the threat of violence is used to accomplish U.S. goals that earns America the "aggressor" moniker, perhaps.

Answer 3

Because we have become imperial aggressors, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Panama, Serbia.

Answer 4

Gee if America wanted oil etc they would have just taken the countries because they are capable of wiping them all off the map aren't they? but thats not what they are all about!

Answer 5

Because they attacked another country without justification....which is the defintion of an imperial aggressor.

Answer 6

the U.S. has supported violent regimes in South America that keep down democratically elected governments in order to keep economic advantages.

the war in Iraq is primarily about the oil. The oil is a crucial resource to maintaining our convienent lifestyle.

That's why

Answer 7

Possibly because that is what Bush has brought this country too...ask around the world, lots of other countries fell the same.

Answer 8

For the same reason that we look at a Rattlesnake and call it a Rattlesnake.

Answer 9

Liberals actually read history books.

You conservatives should try it.

Answer 10

Because the NYT tells them to think that.