ArchivedThe Jesus They SeeJovaro, I am not blind to what US foreign policy and the CIA have done in other countries. Cuba, Chile, Argentina and other countries with or that had brutal dictatorships were backed and financed by the US. When you dance with the devil he usually leads.
However, Adam's blanket condemnation is way out of order. I get tired of American's who complain about this country and then don't do any thing to improve the situation. As to the two world wars I fully understand the Europe paid a greater price than the U.S. however, American taxpayers funded the money required to rebuild the infrastructure in many European countries to help them get back on their feet. American's gave their lives to help our allies defeat an enemy in Europe that was not an imminent threat to us. So before you jump on the hate America bandwagon you had best think about the Marshall Plan: Even now a model for positive economic diplomacy, the Marshall Plan was a rational effort by the United States aimed at reducing the hunger, homelessness, sickness, unemployment, and political restlessness of the 270 million people in sixteen nations in West Europe. Marshall Plan funds were not mainly directed toward feeding individuals or building individual houses, schools, or factories, but at strengthening the economic superstructure (particularly the iron-steel and power industries). The program cost the American taxpayers $11,820,700,000 (plus $1,505,100,000 in loans that were repaid) over four years and worked because it was aimed at aiding a well-educated, industrialized people temporarily down but not out. The Marshall Plan significantly magnified their own efforts and reduced the suffering and time West Europe took to recover from the war. The program--whose official title was "European Recovery Program"--aimed at: (1) increasing production; (2) expanding European foreign trade; (3) facilitating European economic cooperation and integration; and (4) controlling inflation, which was the program's chief failure. http://www.marshallfoundation.org/about ... penditures
The Christian nations of Europe were at each other’s throats during the Middle Ages and beyond so to judge us as a Christian nation out to control other countries is ludicrous. I find it interesting that when foreign governments need financial and military assistance and we give it we are accused of imperialism when the situations calm down.
Iraqi civilians have been killed as a result of the war, however, the ongoing terrorist activity by Arabs is killing Arabs, and so if you want to point fingers point them at those suicide bombers who could care less about civilian casualties that outnumber American casualties as a result of their actions. The average American would love to bring our troops home and spend the billions of dollars we are spending to rebuild Iraq and quarter our military in Europe and other nations because of treaties and spend these billions on pressing domestic issues that need attention.
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