revolution said:
REvolution, you need to spend some time reading. The world hasnt always been anti-US - but every so often the US gets derailed, often by internal power groups who demonstrate that often, it doesnt take that many pressure points in a system of checks and balances to get things done to your way of profit/goal. As OTB notes, the insular nature of the US helps create the ignorance that allows misguided policy to form. When you travel and learn about other cultures, you become more aware when you are being fed a line of bull.
And yes, having a dicator like Saddam was better than anything that will be happening in Iraq over the next 15 years. Countries need to go through a process to get to democracy, and Saddams leadership of the Baath party was part of that process from mere tribalism just a few decades ago. The Baath party was secular, separated religion from government, allowed the advancement of women in academics, politics and business etc. Syria is a case in point, Assad has taken a country that was having a coup twice a month in the 1960s, and stabilized it, broadened the wealth in the country, allowed women to advance, and build true democratic processes at the local level. Unfortunately he was also paranoid due to constant Muslim brotherhood attacks and truely felt hung out to dry by Kissinger and Sadat after they fucked him in regsards to Isreal. Isreal should be required to return the Golan heights which they illegally attacked (Moshe Dayans words, given he was the Northern commader)- which caused him to be aliented, seek ties with the USSR and allow Hezbollah to snipe at Isreal. That the US wants to overthrow Syria is also wrong, given that again, you take a secular govt and turn it over to a majority funadmentalist process - between Iran, Iraq and Syria you then have the makings of a potential religious war between the WEst and the East. HAd Perle, Wolfowitz, Feith, Abrams, Bolton etc al not been driving forces for ISreal is this administration, you would not have seen the fundamental christians sign on to the plan. The rest of thw world sees the conflict - but the US doesnt. Its ignorance, its deplorable brainwashing and needless emotional tugging by the US elites that make the rest of the world cringe at the stupdity of this Admin, and the 50% of the US that support them.
The US has done lots right, but meddled and injured too many uneccesarily. Operation Phoenix (Vietnam), Chile, Honduras, El Savador - underground operations that killed HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS - the coups in Iran - the overthrow of a democratic govt which led to the current Islamic regime, the secret deals with Saudi lining the pockets of both Dems and Repubs, trading weapons with Iran in order to kill people in Saouth A,merica, paying off Iranians in order to hold US hostages so that Reagan could get elected. The car bombs in Lebanon, the assination of Iranian diplomats, which helped create the HExbollah which led to the MArine Barracks deaths etc. The problem REVOLUTION, is that the US does it to itself with mis-guided foreign policy and covert actions that dont seem to get played out in the media in the US - despite being a "free and open society". No one in this election dares investigate why a fun loving frat boy, who failed his security check for the ANG for substance abuse problems with cocaine, is allowed to avoid being charged by spending 90 days volonterring at a Houston inner city agency. 90 days, not less - not more - exactly 90 days. The world can put 2 and 2 together - and see the real truth, but people like you fail to realize some of the real issues, and are instead caught in the propganda cause you lack historical understanding.
