Yossarian
Forum Resistance Leader
Now this I have to agree with.
We should have an equal care of human rights no matter the impact it has on countries we support, etc.
Just because we should, doesn't mean we will, interests and policy interfere with moral decisions on a regular basis.
Again though, if people want to be hateful, judgmental, and religious-crazed we (Americans) cannot step in all of the time. It makes me sick that people do not have more care for life, but we are not Earth's saviors. We have some pretty decent issues ourselves within our goverment, our homeless, that need to be dealt with before we jump into every other country and tell them they are doing things wrong.
Go to your grocery store. Look around, look as you gas gauge. No here's an attachment to the reality of the ways we live our lives. We need things, you and I, and any other typical American, over the course of the past 50 some odd years, we have experienced an unprecedented increase in the quality of our lives. Even today the average American consumes much much more than the other 90% of the rest of the Earth's populace.
What we deem necessities are usually luxuries to many other people's of the world.
What I am stabbing at dearest is underneath a large portion of our foreign policy during the 20th century right up to today, was spurred in some way or fashion at deterring outside forces from threatening or interfering with our flow of "stuff". And I mean cheap "stuff". Materials, minerals, manufactured goods, OIL AND NATURAL GAS.
Why does America care so much for Syria? Is it because it's wrong? Well, to a degree. You see we don't have a history of really ever doing what the Romans did when they needed stuff. We don't invade and simpley take things , never really had.
Wind back to 1949, we needed to enforce Mr. Truman's conatainment policy, especially in the Middle East. This was accomplished by besting the Soviets at every turn to win over favor with governments throughout this region. The more pro American leaders and body's on our side, the easier it was to gain access to cheap oil.
We did this in South America and East Asia with choke points and trade materials. Times changed and we had secured an unofficial flow of materials and out flow of money that strangled the finacially isolated USSR to death. Our globalisation created during the 20th century and our enormous consumption of goods and materials has put us on a precarious spot.
We now have to honor the complex web of alliances and trade agreements made in the past century. As well as maintain our global position as mediatary of the world, moderator of economic growth. Also we do this as a means of providing security of us and our interest.
By interest I mean access to the same things that fill our shopping malls and grocery stores with "stuff".
This is all we know, so we will do what we always have done my dear.
Try to push outside influence out of Syria ( Like Mr. Putin's missile systems) and implant pro American Sentiments.
The goal would be to have a pro American body in Syria after the revolution to help in any future security problems in the future there, as well as not threaten international trade in the region.
Step one of doing this is to rouse up the corporate media to make it seem like a massive blood bath, then abuse people's emotions to justify a military action there.
As we always do.
Change some terms like (overthrowing ) to maybe (popular movement). Or something like that, and the average Joe and Jan won't think twice while they wait for Big Brother to come on.
It's all a puzzle my dear, you just have to look at the picture on the box and put it all together.
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