Why do liebrals always say that US did bad things in the past?

Question

We have never done bad things in the past becuz everything we did was to protect our freedoms.
Why do you lie and say we were ever wrong?
I was lisening to Hannity the other day and he is wright about you.
Thats' very unamerican and unpatriotic.

Answer 1

You're very wrong and ignorant at that. I'm not blaming you for your ignorance; I blame the media establishment and our elected representatives who both seek to capitalize off of the ignorance of the American people; one for ratings and the other to assure re-election.

What liberals are saying is that the primary political grievance of terrorists is directly related to America's policy of the past in the Middle East and not, as some argue in a cartoonishly simplistic way that is unbecoming of human intellect, caused by the terrorists perverted misinterpretation of an ancient article of faith.

You have to understand that Arab Muslims view things in the context of their resentment of European colonialism of the past, their disappointment and resentment of the Arabs state's failure to repulse and repel the establishment of what they viewed and continue to view as a modern day European colony in the middle east (Israel), of Israel's subsequent treatment of the Palestinians and their military occupation of various Arab territory, and America's direct and indirect involvement in their region.

In 1944 FDR established ties with Saudi Arabia and since then that country has been an American military protectorate. Therefore America has been protecting a government that so many Muslims in that region view has illegitimate and corrupt. Eisenhower authorized the CIA to participate in the coup that overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran and established the Shah. This inspired anti Americanism in Iran which culminated in the Islamic revolution in 1979. The CIA claimed that they had a hand in the 1968 coup that put Saddam Hussein in power in the first place. So now you have twenty seven million Iraqis living under a brutal dictatorship that America helped install in the first place. When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan America declared the Carter doctrine and helped arm and train various Para military groups that we now call terrorist organizations such as al Qaeda and the Mujahadeen. The year before Carter tried to encourage Saddam to invade Iran. When they did the Reagan administration supplied many of the weapons of war to do so. So America helped facilitate an eight year war that killed more than one million people, how do you think the Iranians would feel about that? In 1989 when the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan America essentially abandoned it making people in that country feel as though they were nothing more than ponds in America's chess game against the USSR. In 1990 Saddam invaded Kuwait and America went to war, but primarily because of its fears that Iraq would use its newly found strategic advantage to wage war against Saudi Arabia and hence control nearly half the worlds oil reserves. America led the way in liberating Kuwait but destroyed Iraq's infrastructure and made life there generally unpleasant but left Saddam in power. So now Iraqis have to deal with a destroyed country, sanction that has crippled their economy and a brutal dictator. This made them resent America because they felt abandoned and indeed they were. I will concede the point that many liberals fail to recognize that these policies did not stem from a Napoleonic ambition of world conquest, but undertaken in the context of the cold war. America combated an enemy that constituted an imminent and mortal threat to it and it was a very black and white world.

And now our current President uses the excuse of 9/11 to attack a country that no longer constituted a threat to his own neighbors let alone the only superpower in the world. America policy today resembles, in a very heavy fashion, the European imperialism of the past and current Israeli policy of the present and that is why we are hated in a nut shell.

In conclusion you must expand you intellectual horizons if you are to understand the world. As for your concerns about patriotism let me say to hell with it. To hell with patriotism in any nation. As human beings there is only one aristocracy that we owe our allegiance to and that is the aristocracy of our mind.

Answer 2

Richard Nixon did not plan the watergate burglary or participate in it. His only mistake was not throwing his staffers under the bus when the ship hit the fan. When Obama was raising money for the Presidential election on his website he had all the security measures turned off when accepting credit card donations. Every other site on the internet has the credit card company match the card number to the cardholders name. This allowed millions of dollars to flow into his campaign from multiple small donations that could have come from any source. Many of these amounts were in odd amounts raising the suspicion that they came from foreign countries. Obama could teach Nixon a thing or two about being a crook!

Answer 3

The response to your question is in my response to some of your posters. The US used nuclear weapons on Japan to prevent the slaughter of over a million people if we had to invade, even the Japanese admit that the Atom Bomb saved lives, both American and Japanese.

As far as slavery goes, most "civilized" nations during that time had slaves, it was an accepted practice, and the French, British, and Spaniards are the ones that originally brought them here, long before we were the United States.

Vietnam, was started by Kennedy, when he sent in Advisers in 1960. Kennedy, and then Johnson escalated the war. It was a fight over a communist country invading an ally. That is what Allies do, they unite to defend one another, thus, we declared war on Germany when they never attacked us.

Now, these liberal distortion of the facts are exactly what Hannity and you are talking about. Surely, we have made mistakes as a nation, and we have even attempted to "fix" them, as we did with Slavery. All nations in an attempt to govern for their people have "stepped" on another nation in one way or another. The United States owes it's allegiance to it's people, not the Saudis, Iraqi's, French, etc. That is not just the "American Way"., that is the way all governments function.

Answer 4

Because they are looking at history with today's values and morals. Instead of looking back at with the morals and values of the people of yesterday. They also get stuck in the past, for example one post brought up what we did to the native Americans, but never looked at how far we have come since 1900.
It took European countries centuries to establish the rights and protections our citizens have obtained in the last two hundred years. In most of the world, racism is rampart and what is the norm, would be never accepted in The US.

Answer 5

Thats where you went wrong Hannity ( the loud mouth) We have done bad things like all nations have. We are not pure by any means. Going into vetanam wasn't for our freedoms, Neither was going to Iraq. We should be still on the tail of Ben if were there protecting our freedoms and the so call drug war just like the war on terror a joke. Saudi's were where our terrorist came from so why are we in bed with them. Could it be greed!

Answer 6

There were bad things in the past, I disagree with you on that but we also have to remember that liberals have distorted the past, too. Libs would have you believe the civil war was strictly fought over slavery, it wasn't.

Humanity in general, was extremely brutal, the further back in history you go-everywhere.

Here's why libs do what they do:
Libs are inspired by attrocities of the past, like civil rights pre-1970's; reading "to kill a mockingbird", a heart-wrenching story about a black child who asks his mother why other kids called him a racial slur. Bad stuff happened long ago, thank goodness our laws have been corrected, many years ago.

Like labor unions who had a purpose when workers were treated like animals, liberals carry on the fight after the battle is over and they've won. Our laws have changed, it's time to follow Dr King's message to heal wounds, forgive and bring people together.

Since the civil rights days, socialism has "hi-jacked" the liberal causes and they march arm in arm together. We see Hollywood making movies to pour gasoline on the fire of racial conflict, with movies covering every civil rights injustice,
from the past. Why? These things are not happening like they used to and the general public reviles hate and race crimes but liberals need to believe their cause is just.

Libs have to bring up the past because they don't want to admit the laws have changed and it's time to heal and get along. Well, libs don't want racial harmony, they exploit it and support race baiters and false leaders because it gives them power & that's what's it really about, with their partnership with socialism the agenda is really about over-turning capitalism and converting us to socialism; past history sins is just a strategy to justify their bad behavior and feed the beast.
to view things idealistically, rather than realistically.

Libs have no "off" button, so they have to go to the past to regurgitate attocities, to make you think their cause is justified and needed.

Answer 7

Regardless of how much I love this country or not..... we have done bad things to others in this world to maintain our nations sovereignty. Ever heard of Hiroshima? What did all the innocent people there do to us? WWII was a military action and we took out many innocent civilians.

Answer 8

Why do idiots think just because they make false statements about others they are more American than anyone else. Go to the library and read the US Constitution and Bill of Rights!!!! Learn what being an American citizen really means.

Answer 9

I hope you are joking.. if not grab a history book.. we aren't perfect.. that doesn't mean I don't think we are the greatest nation... but we've made MANY mistakes.... just look up our history with the Native Americans.. or with Slavery... or lets get a little more current and look at the Bay of Pigs.


We are a great nation, not a perfect one. Please learn to think for yourself.

Answer 10

I agree!

Liberals need to stop the Anti-American rhetoric.

Oh well, at least there are a few who will still stand for Freedom in America.

God bless!