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Originally Posted by Lebell
I would say, "It depends".
The US has been criticized many times for how long we "didn't intervene" in those two little European wars last century.
No, sometimes it is in our best interest to intervene (which may or may not coincide with other's interests.)
On the other hand, I am very much for pulling our troops out of countries like Germany and Italy where, to the best of my knowledge, they have a stable, democratic government.
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Forgive the tardiness of my response. I agree that the Libratarian party would have been out of place durring a war between world powers. Oddly enough, the end of the cold war has ushered in an era where war between countries is beyond a last resort. The military power in the US is more than capable of taking on any single state military force on the globe. If Canada or China were to attack, we would almost certianally win. If all of America was a smoking hole in the ground, we still have enough troops and bases abroad that we can win.
That being said, we now live in a world where our greatest enemy, the aptly named 'terror', is small cell groups that are usually run by independant organizations. We have a world where the enemy (from the outside) is terrorists. Why do terrorists attack the US? Good question, me. They hate our guts. They come from a reality where we bombard their homes with bombs from ships at sea and planes in the air. They are used to seeing babies slaughtered, and family members funerals. They hate us because we are the dicks of the world. We use our power to control the worlds natural resources, and we try to spread the propaganda that works so well on our citizens.
How do we get this 'unfounded' haterd out of them? Apologise for one. I feel badly that my $$ goes to making bombs that kill innocent people. Then we WITHDRAW OUR TROOPS FOR GODSSAKE. That's the Libratarian way. We offer free trade to try and help their econemy (that we ruined) to get back on it's feet. I'll bet a lot more people would like us if we were able to do that.
Unfortunatally, we can't. Bush or Kerry will win. If Bush wins, he will probably continue his crusade for the holy grail of controling the middle east and all of it's delicious oil. If Kerry wins (let's be honest) we will still indirectly control Iraq's oil. Kerry seems to be an okay guy, and I'd probalby vote for him if it was a two party system, but he himslef does not have the power to turn around our Pax Americana march towards domination.
This is, of course, all IMO. I'll be voting Lib. Enjoy your $2.50 a gallon.