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Originally Posted by Danzig
no, he didn't. we helped topple qaddafi, to what end? they had elections, but the 'wrong party' won?
we tried to keep mubarek in power, because it was better for us. but once our govt realized he was going whether we liked it or not, we switched sides. that got us nowhere. it just showed that portion of our foreign policy sucked.
we went into iraq, and that's a mess. so, we're supposed to go into iran? so there's another mess to go with iraq and afganistan? what about bahrain? they want democracy, and we ignore it, because the rulers of bahrain don't want that. so, we placate the rulers because we have a base there. thus, we are ignoring people who supposedly want democracy.
when we support overthrows, and they have elections, some of us don't like the results, because it's the 'wrong kind' of democracy-many are unhappy that the muslim brotherhood won the election. doesn't square with us wanting elections, does it?
lol it's a huge clusterf*ck.
the u.s. government = snafu. and we all know what that means.
and yeah, russia and china are witholding support because of money and power. you know, like we do.
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you nailed it.
i really dont understand what pointman and miss cat want us to do regarding democracy in other country's that we should have no part of.
Put in our own leaders? Like we did with Saddam, Mubarek and quddafi to begin with? How is that democracy.
Please tell us how to handle foreign policy!
My suggestion is to stay out of it.