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It's all well and good to stand by "the ends justify the means" but so far I have seen very few satisfactory "ends" coming out of American interventionism.
Latin America is a mess in part because of US foreign policy of supporting military dictators
The Middle East is unstable largely thanks to interventions like the coup of an elected government that was replaced with the Shah (orchestrated by the CIA).
I am not saying that America doesn't do good things it's just that saying the ends justifies the means comes across as a bullshit excuse to simply throw your military weight around. There *are* other ways to achieve "ends" and they don't always involve military might.
The problem is they typically take longer to implement than a four-year term.
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