US foreign policy: New World Disorder
US foreign policy: new world disorder | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian: "Much of what George W Bush did wrong in his first term as president, Bill Clinton did too, only it was not as immediately noticeable in Boris Yeltsin's Russia as it was in Iraq in 2003. It took three presidents for these illusions to be shed, and Barack Obama's own contribution to two decades of military hubris was ordering the troop surge in Afghanistan. Leading from behind is the infelicitous phrase Mr Obama used to describe the US role in Libya, but even that fails to catch the constraints that now ground the projection of US power."
They used to just call it Manifest Destiny.
ReplyDeleteOnce we ran out of our own Native American Indians to kill off.
We went to foreign lands to kill their people.
Its always been that way.
Natural resources have always been more important than people.
Especially if those people are NOT white.