America: The warrior nation

From right to left, secular to God-fearing, what so few people know is that in the last half century, United States adminstrations have overthrown 50 governments-many of them democracies. In the process, thirty countries have been attacked and bombed, with the loss of countless lives. Bush bashing is all very well-and is justified-but the moment we begin to accept the siren call of the Democrat’s drivel about standing up and fighting for freedom sought by billions, the battle for history is lost, and we ourselves are silenced.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/08/3056/

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"The business of America is business."

I believe that was C. Coolidge.

But the business of America is now domination.

And that is a fool's errand.

I think it was Howard Zinn who said the second most aggressive capitalist party in the history of the world is the Democratic Party.

I'm a college graduate in an information profession and I am shocked by how little I learned.

Didn't have any Marxist sociology professors? Ha, ha...

It's all worthless bullshit.

i once heard a preacher say that God knew 'He' had given liars and conmen and deceit and vice the advantage in its dealings with the world, so to offset that, and give humanity a chance, he sent 'His Son' (of course Jesus was just as ordinary as anyone is, otherwise the exercise woulda been a con just as bad as the wmd's in Iraq)...the preacher explained that Jesus put the human drama in a context anyone can understand-he was executed as a common criminal, after all. But even a fraction of the funds wasted on military (ie 'defense') easily totals what men spend on education, transportation, and health (it's about $2 trillion directly measured, with vast sums more tied up and thus denied society) In other words, Jesus was the enemy of waste, of dishonesty and ignorance, by forcing people to either listen to the simple message 'blessed are the peacemakers' etc or to try exploit the devilish 'us or them' concept! And the biggest mystery is that it's the 'christian' nations themselves, USA, Britain, France Germany etc, who are literally gonna kill everything, including God, while claiming they're god fearing and god worshipping etc; they are the ones leading the charge over the cliff! So Jesus was in fact fighting for his, or 'God's, life, by dying on the cross in order to open humanity's eyes to the fact the end is too real, and it's our responsibility to help God survive all the devil aka the busheviks and the nazipoohs and the tapeworms at foxnews etc, can devise in their evil brains!
well, i thought, poor God better NOT expect ME to do anything beyond raging silently and cursing the fates....i mean, c'mon

Arthur Silber writes extensively on this theme in his "Dominion Over the World" series: http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2007/01/dominion-over-world-iii-open-door-to.html

Woodrow Wilson was not the wonderful progressive many history books portray.

and Hawaii, the Philipines, Cuba, etc. The corner was turned with full awareness and an open debate of what was being done, and what it would make the US. There was a huge anti-imperialist movement here, and it lost. That none of this is taught in the schools, though it was common knowledge to everyone at the time, is the real crime - tyrants rewrite history, secure their legacy, bury and forget the dead, make up a good story for us all to feel good about.

It's the leaders they select that bother me.

Leaders in dissent were voted out, leaders in favor were well rewarded by the voters.

and most of them were defined by a war.