@sherman28:
the US is the most generous nation on the earth.
i’d lke to see the numbers on that in a per capita basis. Don’t forget to include credits/debts to the U.N. relative to other countries.
Hanso didn’t mention the Marshall plan which was millions spent to help rebuild Europe after WW2. We even gave Marshall plan $$ to the Germans and the Japanese. (The Soviets opted not to participate).
This is one of the shining spots of the war.
Afghanistan- do you really think it is better to leave the Taliban in charge?
This was a case in America’s best interests. The Taliban was America’s monster - much as was Frankenstein’s. This is one of the MANY instances of American interference to ward off socialism/communism gone wrong. So eventually the whole thing blows up in their face, 9/11 happens, and America does the only thing it can do - deal with it. This hasn’t been done very effectively yet, and i suspect there was more security (with more freedoms) under the Taliban (which i would suggest was pretty evil).
Vietnam- do you really think Norht Viet nam was a democratic nation?
oh, you SO don’t want to go there. America the wise - saving the world from communism. Failing to solve the real problem.
Question - why was communism such a threat? If it were truth - then why should it not be perpetuated at the will of people. If a lie, then do they think that it would not fizzle on its own as people came to realize its problems?
And they really did not do anything of any substance in Vietnam - other than snuff out many lives.
Hanso forgets all the time the US has intervened to help Muslim people in the last 10 years. Ethiopia, Somalia, Kuwait, Serbia, Iraq…
Dude, get it right!
These were, with the exception of Iraq (who i’m still not sure that America helped that much) international “group efforts” with many nations pitching in.
Yes, America appears to have done some good, however much of this is:
- a direct result of the need to repair the evil that was done because of previous intervention,
- a purely selfish act with superfluously handy side-effects
- a good act with severe consequences by nature - a sword of 2 edges, so to speak.