Here we go
As a prenote, a warning of sorts, I just played a couple o' games o' rugby and I am tired and I took a couple too many shots to the head but nonetheless I am decided to write this blog anyway.
As you said Ben the people that aided Hitler were most defintely at fault for Hitler. And as Paul said that soldiers weren't totally to blame, but rather everyone was. So my problem with this is that we all admit that helping evil and even ignoring evil is evil in and of its self. Therefore when we turn and analyze our own country I think that we have to start placing responsibility on ourselves for the terrorism that we support and provoke all around the world.
If we look to the Vietnam War, it is one of the greatest examples of installing a horrible regime for the sole purpose that it would benefit us. We saw images of Monks burning themselves in disagreenace with the war. We installed a repressive regime with Diem-Sung at that lead who was more destructive to the people than the communists ever would be. In this circumstance we were responsible for the horrors that they government committed because we supported them, installed them, and praised them while we knew what was going on in that nation.
But these the Vietnam was, to no means, the only time that we have ever invoked a policy of this kind. Once again in an effort to fight the "communists" we supported governments in El Salvado, Guatamala, and Honduras that were repressing their people extensively. Repression is defintely a euphemism for the horrors that were being committed, such as mass murdering, executions of men and women on the streets void of any trial, and complete brutality. But as the US knew of all of this we continued to support these nations governments with weaponry and funding . . . I believe that makes us responsible to those actions. It is the same as the men and women who supported Hitler, they are guilty, and simiarly we are guilty.
Presently we are supporting the Phillipenes government with weapons and other sorts of funding to ruthlessly put down its nations people. It is wildly know amoung the forerunners of our nation that the government in the Phillipenes is acting ruthlessly and with out cause or reason. We members of the US can not continue to give money to governments that do not in the least extent even try to uphold standards that our own government tries to adhere to. Money not humanitarianism is the source of our International indeavors and that is incredibly detremental to the world.
In both Russia and China we are ignoring the horrible breach of rights that we as Americans believe that every man has the right too. China is one of the worlds leaders of ruthlessness and obstruction of all civil liberities. Russia is very similar in that the more and more we become friendly with them, the more and more we turn our backs to their policies regarding their own people. This next week Bush is going to chat with the Russian leaders another time, and there is no chance that he will bring up issues condeming the Russian government about their breaches of civil rights. This is something that we as the self acclaimed "police force of the world" must deal with. We are the most wealthy and the most capable of dealing with these situations and yet we do nothing, and that makes us guilty.
In Colombia we are supporting a government which is run by drug lords and murderers. We are basically keeping this government alive because of the money we supplement to it, and thus extending our own drug problems in our nation. There are an average of 50 kidnappings, murders, and other forms of this illigetiment government's abuse on a daily basis.
Our international policy is flawed. We give lots of money out to the world, but we put it in the hands of killers and murders because it will benefit us to a greater extent. If we didn't give this money out to these nations we would be doing the international community a far greater favor then shelling out the money that we need back at home. Ben has been right in the past when he said that we do do alot for the world. And he is correct again when we do do a lot of good for the world. But there are vastly to many cases when the things that we do support governments which horribly repress and murder their people, and that makes us responsible, and personally I don't like the feeling that my tax money is responsible for the killing of vast quantities of people all aroudn the world.
As you said Ben the people that aided Hitler were most defintely at fault for Hitler. And as Paul said that soldiers weren't totally to blame, but rather everyone was. So my problem with this is that we all admit that helping evil and even ignoring evil is evil in and of its self. Therefore when we turn and analyze our own country I think that we have to start placing responsibility on ourselves for the terrorism that we support and provoke all around the world.
If we look to the Vietnam War, it is one of the greatest examples of installing a horrible regime for the sole purpose that it would benefit us. We saw images of Monks burning themselves in disagreenace with the war. We installed a repressive regime with Diem-Sung at that lead who was more destructive to the people than the communists ever would be. In this circumstance we were responsible for the horrors that they government committed because we supported them, installed them, and praised them while we knew what was going on in that nation.
But these the Vietnam was, to no means, the only time that we have ever invoked a policy of this kind. Once again in an effort to fight the "communists" we supported governments in El Salvado, Guatamala, and Honduras that were repressing their people extensively. Repression is defintely a euphemism for the horrors that were being committed, such as mass murdering, executions of men and women on the streets void of any trial, and complete brutality. But as the US knew of all of this we continued to support these nations governments with weaponry and funding . . . I believe that makes us responsible to those actions. It is the same as the men and women who supported Hitler, they are guilty, and simiarly we are guilty.
Presently we are supporting the Phillipenes government with weapons and other sorts of funding to ruthlessly put down its nations people. It is wildly know amoung the forerunners of our nation that the government in the Phillipenes is acting ruthlessly and with out cause or reason. We members of the US can not continue to give money to governments that do not in the least extent even try to uphold standards that our own government tries to adhere to. Money not humanitarianism is the source of our International indeavors and that is incredibly detremental to the world.
In both Russia and China we are ignoring the horrible breach of rights that we as Americans believe that every man has the right too. China is one of the worlds leaders of ruthlessness and obstruction of all civil liberities. Russia is very similar in that the more and more we become friendly with them, the more and more we turn our backs to their policies regarding their own people. This next week Bush is going to chat with the Russian leaders another time, and there is no chance that he will bring up issues condeming the Russian government about their breaches of civil rights. This is something that we as the self acclaimed "police force of the world" must deal with. We are the most wealthy and the most capable of dealing with these situations and yet we do nothing, and that makes us guilty.
In Colombia we are supporting a government which is run by drug lords and murderers. We are basically keeping this government alive because of the money we supplement to it, and thus extending our own drug problems in our nation. There are an average of 50 kidnappings, murders, and other forms of this illigetiment government's abuse on a daily basis.
Our international policy is flawed. We give lots of money out to the world, but we put it in the hands of killers and murders because it will benefit us to a greater extent. If we didn't give this money out to these nations we would be doing the international community a far greater favor then shelling out the money that we need back at home. Ben has been right in the past when he said that we do do alot for the world. And he is correct again when we do do a lot of good for the world. But there are vastly to many cases when the things that we do support governments which horribly repress and murder their people, and that makes us responsible, and personally I don't like the feeling that my tax money is responsible for the killing of vast quantities of people all aroudn the world.