07-29-2016, 08:20 PM
(07-29-2016, 04:56 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: When the United States takes an action, it almost always has a
benevolent objective, where the US is playing its role as the
policeman of the world, following the policies laid down in the 1947
Truman Doctrine. It's always possible for police actions to go wrong
and to be heavily criticized, but that's still completely different
from trying to exterminate an entire race.
That it, there John, the US is not what it was in 1947. The US is a hollowed out, debt besotted place that can't sustain the Policeman of the World role anymore. As for promoting human rights, well Guantanamo, NSA spying, dark prisons in Poland make those words hollow. One look at Detroit is the perfect metaphor.
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in foilers on both the Right and Left view the USA as "Amerika" and cast it as "an Empire." They believe in the man behind the curtain, in this case a cabal of Wall Street and large corporations. To be sure, such entities lobby and influence policy. However, government and the private sector are not merged, as they would be under a totalitarian system or absolute monarchy. But the tin foilers can't see beyond their Quiigleyesque conspiracy theories, and therefore, everything done by the US government is deemed the work of the man behind the curtain, and worthy of anarchy.
The US is an empire. Only empires have 100's of military bases strewn all over the world and a defense budge that exceeds the rest of the world combined. I'm not saying the US is a horrid place, but rather we should just STFU and just let the world go on without our constant meddling. We have other priorities like fixing our infrastructure, moving to renewable energy, weed legalization, etc. Sorry, the Imperial project of ensuring others are just like us or the US setting some sort of moral agenda ain't for me.
I think what you're looking for wrt me is not anarchy, but economic nationalism. It's the US as a nation state that's #1, not we are the world Kumbaya shit.
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