The USA never has, and never will use its military solely for humanitarian purposes.* There are ample examples of atrocities that we have turned a blind eye to.
The people of America can be motivated to support military use by pictures of dead and dying women and children, but the government is driven by complex geopolitical strategy, military strategical positioning, control of resources, etc.
If the government had not been caught lying about nearly every major military event in our history, maybe more people would believe the propaganda about chemical weapons and evil dictators.
Chemical weapons may have been used, women and children may have been murdered by an evil dictator, but that is not what anyone of this is about.
The public is never told the whole truth; not now, not Benghazi, not Libya, not 9/11/2001, not the USS Liberty, not the 1993 WTC bombing, not OKC, not the sinking of the Lusitania, not the Gulf of Tokin, not The First Gulf War or the second... we are never told the truth, we are fed a line of crap, whatever is needed to gain public support.
Unless we are attacked, we should not use military force. I do not support preemptive attacks, nor do I believe in engaging in proxy wars, or getting involved in sovereign countries civil wars.
*There are many examples of seemingly humanitarian acts, but every single act has ulterior motives, even if it is simply to try and prove that we care. Think of the USA like the Clinton Foundation; we care about others...as long as there is something in it for us.
Thousands of pro-democracy protesters were brutally massacred in the 80s and another uprising in 2007 in Burma/Myanmar.
The people of America can be motivated to support military use by pictures of dead and dying women and children, but the government is driven by complex geopolitical strategy, military strategical positioning, control of resources, etc.
If the government had not been caught lying about nearly every major military event in our history, maybe more people would believe the propaganda about chemical weapons and evil dictators.
Chemical weapons may have been used, women and children may have been murdered by an evil dictator, but that is not what anyone of this is about.
The public is never told the whole truth; not now, not Benghazi, not Libya, not 9/11/2001, not the USS Liberty, not the 1993 WTC bombing, not OKC, not the sinking of the Lusitania, not the Gulf of Tokin, not The First Gulf War or the second... we are never told the truth, we are fed a line of crap, whatever is needed to gain public support.
Unless we are attacked, we should not use military force. I do not support preemptive attacks, nor do I believe in engaging in proxy wars, or getting involved in sovereign countries civil wars.
*There are many examples of seemingly humanitarian acts, but every single act has ulterior motives, even if it is simply to try and prove that we care. Think of the USA like the Clinton Foundation; we care about others...as long as there is something in it for us.
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