MrRodgers -> RE: US meddled in 50 nations over 130 times in 121 years By: ROTP Tags: * HIDDEN HISTORY The unen (5/6/2011 1:26:10 PM)
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ORIGINAL: barelynangel Umm maybe i have remembered my history wrong, but isn't history full of the most powerful countries/empires/territories "meddling.?" I have repeatedly suggested and I think with logical validity in this discussion. When mankind looks back at empire we have a very wide spectrum for analysis. So in the end, the real historical comparison is that all those availing themselves of the right to attack, invade or in anyway make war against another country or people...did it to conquer, enslave and plunder even seeking gold as protection against it. So list them, Egyptians, Greeks, Mongols, Asians, Persians, Romans, Ottoman's and the western European colonialists. All that is different about 'people' and their 'leaders' over history was the strength of the military or in the case of the 20th century...the advancement of navies. The US just has the strongest now and otherwise strong enough for about a century. Yet we do not seek to conquer a people so much as to secure wealth and to establish a strong political and military presence and not always successfully. Yes, 'War is a Racket' (the late Marine general Smedley Butler turned author, wrote it) has been all throughout history and will remain so...forever. America left its founding principles and has now joined in the world's ever present ancient march, just more slowly devolving back into...'hunter gatherers.'
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