"I have, therefore, chosen this time and place to discuss a topic on which IGNORANCE too often abounds and the TRUTH too rarely perceived. And that is the most important topic on earth: peace. What kind of peace do I mean and what kind of a peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, and the kind that enables men and nations to grow, and to hope, and build a better life for their children -- not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women, not merely peace in our time but peace in all time."
- John F. Kennedy
You mean the JFK that tried to force Pax Americana on poor little old Cuba? The same JFK that started the U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam Conflict?
You are getting caught up in the semantics. The US has over 800 military bases throughout the world. I'm talking about the US war machine that steps into other nations internal conflicts (as long as it is economical to them that is...hint Rwanda, Darfur) and projects its military presence in more than 150 countries.
Oh, now the way U.S. wages war is Economical? Not to get caught up with semantics, but how does that jibe with everyone on the left telling us that the economy is so bad because we waged 2 unfunded wars?
Funny, how Iraqi and Afghan Democracy and Government institutions look nothing like the U.S., and are closer to European Models. With the President being pretty much a figurehead for the Iraqi's and a different model for Afghanistan. Of course a couple of years ago, we were failing because we were trying to mold those nations into our identical image, which was refuted, and when it became apparent Iraqi's and Afghanistani's were molding a Democracy of their own making, then it was, we are failing because their Democracy looks nothing like our own.
Make your Carrot or a Stick argument, you've failed bitterly in your attempt to convince me that the U.S. attempts to confront Islamic Facism and Dictators destablizing entire strategic regions of the world was actaully a hidden attempt of Pax Americana Imperialism. Of course you have to laugh, as the people that made that claim, were the ones that have eon's long history of Imperalism that we confronted and ended in our sphere of the world, and only 2 generations ago, were liberated from their fellow nations imperalism, with us at the advatange of colonizing their nations, but instead spent our wealth rebuilding them and putting them back on their feet.
Yea, America's War Machine just steps into other nations internal conflicts, I guess in some Mercantile attempt of World Domination, you're a little hazy as too motive?
BUT, after I have a Lobotomy and spend a decade with daily abuse of marijuana, I may be stupid enough to believe that.
Within the same sentence you ctricize us for intervening to much, but NOT intervening everywhere. Is thier an idealogy behind that, or just contrarianism?
Don't forget Burma that is begging for U.S. intervention to end years of a brutal regime there, or Somolia, oh wait, the U.S. propped up Ethopia actually intervened their to end the civilian strife, what, that can't be, it must have been a young nation practising their own Imperalism that they learned from big, bad U.S.A.