Who’s next?
- Iran
- North Korea
- Syria
- Saudi Arabia
- France
0 voters
Just as a follow up:
Hillary Clinton?
Does Hillary’s new biography (oh sorry autobiography. She wrote it herself didn’t she?) count as weapons of mass destruction?
and if you believe that, oy, have I got a great bridge to sell you!
You misspelled “weapon of mass distortion”.
What should the US do about
North Korea?
Iran?
Syria?
Hillary Clinton?!
[quote=“fred smith”]What should the US do about
North Korea?
Iran?
Syria?
Hillary Clinton?![/quote]
The wider issue is does the US wish to build a world in its own image, or will it accept the consequences of not doing so?
Saw a news item last night where over 1000 troops raided some village and detained a bunch of old women and children, arrested and carted away all the young men and after an extensive search, found 1 AK-47 and a couple of hand guns. I guess this is what the rest of us have been waiting for. Under Dubya’s leadership, Amerikans are finally coming out of the closet and showing those who doubted it just what a complete and total bunch of morons they really are…
Yawn. 
And what shining example of nationhood are you from? Or are you too embarrassed to say?
I have news for you: the U.S. doesn’t really care much about what the rest of the world does, as long as it’s reasonably stable and doesn’t attack us. “But piss us off and we’ll bomb your cities,” to quote Robin Williams.
I have news for you: the U.S. doesn’t really care much about what the rest of the world does, as long as it’s reasonably stable and doesn’t attack us. “But piss us off and we’ll bomb your cities,” to quote Robin Williams.[/quote]
As I clearly stated, my response considered a wider picture, not just the so called axis of terror. The poll includes France. Terrorists, too?
I suppose you think that the US never interfered in, and was threatened by such countries as Cuba, Vietnam, Grenada, too.
As for the US not caring what the rest of the world does, you amply demonstrate your ignorance of geopolitics.
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I suppose you think that the US never interfered in, and was threatened by such countries as Cuba, Vietnam, Grenada, too.
As for the US not caring what the rest of the world does, you amply demonstrate your ignorance of geopolitics.[/quote]
I guess you were asleep in class when the Cuban Missile Crisis was discussed. 
[quote=“blueface666”][quote=“Soddom”]
I suppose you think that the US never interfered in, and was threatened by such countries as Cuba, Vietnam, Grenada, too.
As for the US not caring what the rest of the world does, you amply demonstrate your ignorance of geopolitics.[/quote]
I guess you were asleep in class when the Cuban Missile Crisis was discussed. [/quote]
Er, no I wasn’t. It was the Russians who put them there, and then they were doing no more “threatening” than the US Atlas missiles just over the Russian border in Turkey. A bit of back door diplomacy would surely have been more circumspect than the confrontational approach Kennedy’s administration took.
How about the North Vietnamese and the Grenadans though? What threat did they ever pose to the US that wasn’t the result of US meddling in those countries?
Yawn. And what shining example of nationhood are you from? Or are you too embarrassed to say?[/quote]
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Yawn. And what shining example of nationhood are you from? Or are you too embarrassed to say?[/quote]
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Well, please, since you’re so proud, you want to tell us about the Canadian peacekeepers who took over a mental hospital in Bosnia got drunk and raped the female patients?
peacewomen.org/news/January0 … eeper.html
Or about them murdering children in Somali?
globalpolicy.org/security/pe … 3peace.htm
muslims.org/webarticles/messages/12.html
"Kyle Brown was a peacekeeper, an elite Canadian paratrooper sent to Somalia on a U.S.-led mission. Part of his job was to help the starving people of Somalia.
The peacekeepers tied up a 16-year-old Somali boy at a weapons bunker
Gee. North Vietnam was part of a former FRENCH colony and they were meddling with South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Malaysia. Grenada was a former BRITISH colony. The communist government there was using Cuban military engineers to build a military airport. At the time, Cuba was trying to destabilize several countries in the Caribbean.
Soddom, virtually all of the trouble in the 20th and now 21st Century has been the result of European meddling (imperialism) leaving the US having to go in and clean up the mess.
Not to mention the mess left in Africa … and I can’t recall the U.S. ever having a colony there … although I’m sure someone will try to put the blame for all of the instability there on the U.S. as well …
Gee. North Vietnam was part of a former FRENCH colony and they were meddling with South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Malaysia. Grenada was a former British colony.[/quote]
Sure it was but in your usual inability to accept any criticism of the US you switch the topic again. The thread topic is about future US action, not the legacy of colonialism. For the record, the Americans under Truman aided the French in Vietnam (they practically funded the war). This was against FDR’s stated goal of getting the French out of SE Asia.
Agreed the legacy of European imperialism caused many of the 20th century’s problems. But post WWII, US imperialism has sown similar seeds of discontent. Their are dozens of examples of US meddling, both covert and overt, in other countries that do not fit your view of the US “clearing up the mess”. What mess was the American government clearing up when it decided to carpet bomb Laos, or fund Saddam Hussein’s war against Iraq, or assassinate Castro, or fund a war in Nicaragua? The US policies created the “mess.”
Sure, there have been some bad decisions made by the U.S. government in foreign affairs … tell me one major international player that hasn’t made some? Things aren’t always as black and white as either the militant anti-American protestors (i.e. Soddom) OR the militant “patriots” (i.e. Blueface) would like to delude themselves or others into believing. The “real world” (and not some idealistic fairyland) is never that simple.
At any rate, if the U.S. hadn’t stood up against Communism, what would the world be like today? And don’t tell me a socialist utopia where everyone shares with each other and lives in harmony with peace, goodwill, justice, and universalized health care for all …
Laos was a former French colony that was being used to funnel arms to the Viet Cong, North Vietnamese Army and Khmer Rouge in South Vietnam and Cambodia. Assassinating Castro? What? Is he one of your heroes? He is a communist thug and the Soviets were using Cuba a base of operations against the US and countries in Latin and South America. Too bad the CIA didn’t kill him. Nicaragua??? Ha! That burns you. doesn’t it? The Communist Sandinistas take over with help from Cuba, the USSR, East Germany and Bulgaria. The US secretly supports guerrillas who eventually force the Communists to a free election. And guess who wins??? The people vote Danny Ortega and the rest of the Sandinista riff-raff OUT OUT OUT. A pisser, isn’t it? And Iran/Iraq? Considering the fact that Iraq and Iran were both British “protectorates”, that the Brits put puppets on the throne (or removed them at need), yes, once again the US got pulled into a mess caused by European imperialism.
Funny how you seem to be supporting communist/totalitarian dictators all over the world. I have to ask you, why do you stay in Taiwan and not in the “Worker’s Paradise” across the water? What is it? Totalitarianism is ok for those who are yellow, brown or black but not for white, leftist Europeans?
I voted for France. They deserve it.