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Originally Posted by Elli
The States has a long history of being isolationist as a general policy but meddling in others' affairs when it suits its interests best. Sure, all countries should probably do this. But only a few can have a global impact. The current president's arrogance and his administration's depth of corruption underlines the USA's hypocrisy to the rest of the world. When your president can say "We have to stop the horrible dictator and rescue his citizens" for one country with obvious assets while ignoring other similar and even worse situations in Africa, etc etc, then it's just a case of insulting the audience's intelligence.
What's worse is that many Americans take "patriotism" too far and think it means they need to support their government whole-heartedly in all its decisions or they'll be labelled a traitor to their country. And God forbid an American should be called "un-American."
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Yeah, Well States learned from Korea and Vietnam, now they won't go for another armed conflict unless there is not a decent buck in it
Everyone with a little bit of overview (and from the outside world) can see that from 1000 miles away..
I was checking a couple of magazines and newspapers in the States, and there was a very few that wouldn't have something related to the current conflicts in their current issue, what I observed was always the same scheme of the article:
1) there is a recent problem and we are aware of that (say troops in Iraq are slaughtered big time and have a hard time while getting back)
2) a proper analysis why they are there etc. long - very long analysis with many names and people with many titles commenting
3) the resume: in fact it's allright and we have to support them
So the propaganda works on 101 pct. - it has to, if you want to lead a war you can't let anyone disbelief in it, no matter if on the field or the civils.
