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Re: There goes the neighborhood - Tunisia Edition
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Originally Posted by Alvin Walton
If you understood and or lived thru the entire cold war you would understand why we did that.
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Would there have been a cold war if the US wasn't so goddamned self assured that their form of government didn't have to be the prevailing form of government for other nations? No, we played the who's got a bigger dick game and, luckily, won. Doesn't mean that we didn't open pandora's box.
Look, this is getting really off track... I think i've made my case, which is simply that the US is both hypocritical and grossly arrogant in it's foreign policy, and that as a partial result of that hypocrisy/arrogance the Middle East pays a price in terms of borderline constant destabilization. The region has historically been a cluster ****, but that doesn't mean we haven't contributed a whole lot of f*ckery to the equation.
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