The US didn’t go into Iraq for oil. That is a common “mistake” that the American Leftist media has spread to the world. We went into Iraq solely to remove a threat to the US. If we’d really wanted Iraqi oil, we’d have just dropped the sanctions preventing Saddam from selling it on the free market.

Afghanistan was similar. They supported Al-Qaeda; therefor they were removed from power.

Kuwait – if you’d care to remember – part of a UN sanctioned action to protect it from Saddam. My guess would be the the whole of the 1st World’s nations wanted to keep Kuwait’s oil and money flowing.

So, you’re right the above endeavors had very little to do with human rights. They were actions based on protecting the US – and other countries in some cases – from threats originating or operating in these nations and under their current regimes.

You may be shocked to find out that I was always against removing Saddam. I – rightfully as it sadly turned out – believed that the US would win the war, but lose the peace. We’re not very good at rebuilding a nation out of multivalent political-military chaos.

As for long past actions, you have point. The US and the USSR were for decades engaged in a dirty proxy war fought in 3rd World nations across the globe. A lot of people were wronged and sacrificed in the Cold War between Democracy-Capitalism and Communism-Socialism.

Iraq didn’t ask US help.

Afghanistan asked help during the war against Russia but not 15 years after, when US destroyed the country to find a ghost who wasn’t there…

Argentina didn’t ask US help but it was destroyed economically by FMI and US intervents, and the same I can write for people who live in poverty after US help as Bolivia, Poland, Brazil, and overall Chile.

US supports human rights??? When?? Where???
US helped Afghanistan against talibans just for its own interest in gas…or Kuwait just for oil… Where is this great country who help the world against the “bads”?

Oh, of course US gives its dummy help to billion people… but at the same time its gains from deliberately destroyed countries as Iraq or Afghanistan are 10 or 100 times greater than what it spends for “the wealth of the whole world”…

Iran will be te next victim of this cruel game.

We actually talking about “coercing” the US, but the US will not subjugate itself to foreign powers, nor will any other nation without coercion or incentive. It just won’t happen because the world can’t force the US to abrogate their own sovereignty and the US won’t voluntarily give it up. I refer you to the US’ involvement in the UN as an example.

I didn’t comment on the US’ involvement in foreign politics because that is long standing fact. We agree that it happened. We do not agree on the “undue” adjective – or at least we’d have to address each case individually to determine if we’d agreed on that.

The majority of the world’s NON-thinking population wants someone to blame. The thinking portion – a tiny minority – wants to find away to not have that sort of mess happen again.

No, we’re not going to subjugate ourselves to foreign powers. No nation will do so willingly and the US is strong enough not be coerced into doing so. Is that “right?” I think so, but I think any other nation is “right” to do the same.

Of course US foreign policy is based on what’s best for America! ALL nations’ policies are based on what is best for those nations. Each nation’s government is responsible for – and responsible to in democracies – their own people and their welfare.

I speak to what is, not what people wish was so. I also chose in my comments to not pass moral judgments upon those facts.

Show me anyone’s aid policies that DON’T foster dependence. From what I can see all humanitarian aid is based on incidence control instead of problem resolution, and that fosters dependence. Of course the US is the most guilty of that; we provide an order of magnitude more aid than any other nation.

As for intervention, you’re quite wrong on the cause of the world-at-large’s distaste for it. The 1st World – read that as the West – developed a distaste for intervening in other nations problems during WWI, when adherence to treaties plunged the world into a total meat grinder of of a war.

I find it strange how so many foreigners complain about the US’ involvement in Iraq while at the same time complaining that we haven’t gone into the Sudan or Myanmar.

I’d love to see the US stay within its borders as well. Of course then the world would whine about the loss of 40% of its humanitarian aide, and most all hope of intervention in cases of regimes that oppress their own people. Remember, if the US stays within its borders, aid to world’s poor from the US must end as well – you, I, and everyone must take the good with the bad.

The US can live alone – though it won’t be living near as well when it comes to stuff, but a large swath of the human race literally cannot live without US largess.

US supported all of the political atrocity in the past (bolivia, argentina, brazil, south africa) or economical (china, russia, poland), in the present (iraq) and in the future maybe (iran?), just for its own madness.

In the name of “free-market” of Milton Friedman and his Chicago school, the USA reduced in poverty billion people.

I think I’d like to live in a world where the USA will stay in its own borders, in its own country…

The world can live without the USA but the USA well knows that it cannot live without the world…

Oh we won’t start a war over it, but we’ll curtail our aid and support to organizations that supported such a foolish hypothetical move by this ICC. With the US supplying both 40% of the world’s relief efforts and the bulk of the arms and personnel used by the UN and its child organization, we could neutralize the ICC on a whim.

Please wake up and realize that 1.5 billion people on this planet survive each single day solely on US sufferance. Have you thought of what would happen if the US decided that it was sick and tired of spending its money to support people who provide the US no direct benefit and harrass us every chance they get?

And hey – thanks for reading!!