longweekend58 wrote on May 24
th, 2015 at 1:45pm:
Svengali wrote on May 24
th, 2015 at 12:40pm:
longweekend58 wrote on May 24
th, 2015 at 12:22pm:
you seem to be conveniently ignoring Chinas expansionist acts in the south china sea.
As opposed to USA's expansionist acts in Middle East and Ukraine?
it is hard to understand how you dress yourself in the morning with that level of ignorance. I presume someone has to change your diaper for you.
USA has occupied ZERO countries outside of WW2
USA occupied Vietnam and lost.
USA occupied:
Nicaragua, Haiti twice, Cuba, Veracruz Mexico, Dominican Republic twice, Panama, Korea, Iraq, Phillipines.
[url=]Muslim countries occupied or bombed by USA just since 1980[/url]
Quote: Syria has become at least the 14th country in the Islamic world that U.S. forces have invaded or occupied or bombed, and in which American soldiers have killed or been killed. And that’s just since 1980.
Let’s tick them off: Iran (1980, 1987-1988), Libya (1981, 1986, 1989, 2011), Lebanon (1983), Kuwait (1991), Iraq (1991-2011, 2014-), Somalia (1992-1993, 2007-), Bosnia (1995), Saudi Arabia (1991, 1996), Afghanistan (1998, 2001-), Sudan (1998), Kosovo (1999), Yemen (2000, 2002-), Pakistan (2004-) and now Syria. Whew.
Bacevich’s count excludes the bombing and occupation of still other predominantly Muslim countries by key U.S. allies such as Israel and Saudi Arabia, carried out with crucial American support. It excludes coups against democratically elected governments, torture, and imprisonment of people with no charges. It also, of course, excludes all the other bombing and invading and occupying that the U.S. has carried out during this time period in other parts of the world, including in Central America and the Caribbean, as well as various proxy wars in Africa.
"War is itself terrorism" Quote:But more ominous, perhaps, than the occupation of Iraq is the occupation of the US. I wake up in the morning, read the newspaper, and feel that we are an occupied country, that some alien group has taken over. I wake up thinking: the US is in the grip of a president surrounded by thugs in suits who care nothing about human life abroad or here, who care nothing about freedom abroad or here, who care nothing about what happens to the earth, the water or the air, or what kind of world will be inherited by our children and grandchildren.
More Americans are beginning to feel, like the soldiers in Iraq, that something is terribly wrong. More and more every day the lies are being exposed. And then there is the largest lie, that everything the US does is to be pardoned because we are engaged in a "war on terrorism", ignoring the fact that war is itself terrorism, that barging into homes and taking away people and subjecting them to torture is terrorism, that invading and bombing other countries does not give us more security but less.