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re: Is America Still a Good Country? Or, are we the bad guys now?quote: I call BS. We do that to gain political edge in certain regions. Yet we have stripped not just countries but continents of their resources for our capitalist motives. Look into something like the United Fruit Co in the 1950s. Reply • Back to Top |
| We're neither. We're merely pragmatic. We do what is in our perceived best interest and don't do what is perceived not to be in our best interest. Nothing inherently wrong with that. I just wish people will open their eyes and drop the myth that we are a benevolent superpower. We aren't. I have no clue if we ever were, but we certainly aren't now. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: The social democracies of the Scandinavian Circle actually lead in humanitarian efforts and disaster reliefs. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: The ultimate passive aggressive. If things we've done for our own best interest are bad, then yes, it is bad. It doesn't matter that we did it for our own best interest. Reply • Back to Top |
| We are still bad, just ask any liberalista. We will always be bad even when we have been marginalized into a second rate power. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: Power really has no relevance in determining good or bad, as the OP has tried to explain a couple times now. Reply • Back to Top |
| We never were the "Good Guys." The good guys get conquered not necessarily by the "bad guys", but by the guys who are willing to put aside honesty and morality in pursuit of power. We have been relatively good in comparison to other countries(Nazi Germany, Soviet Union), but we've never been some bastion of morality. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: I agree. But, we put forward the idea that we are good in all we do so that our people get behind American policy and support it without asking too many questions. No matter who is in power, you really don't see much change in foreign policy. Now, the domestic security apparatus seems to be marching forward despite the party as well. And, the American people ask no questions because what we do is always good all the time - according to the conventional wisdom. We do a lot of good things. I just think that we would be better off if we did not think only about what benefitted us and instead thought about what was good and did those things. Reply • Back to Top |
quote:Americans, maybe. The American gov't was hardly "good guys" during the cold war. We were just the ones fighting communism. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: Among thousands of other examples, yes. And I think you'd be interested to learn that we did things like fund Russia via loans to arm themselves while we were fighting communism in Vietnam. This post was edited on 12/31 at 7:43 pm Reply • Back to Top |
quote: Really? Interesting. Have any kind of link to that? Apparently, we are funding and arming Al Qaeda in Syria now, as well. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: Please expound on this. Reply • Back to Top |
| I recently moved to Korea and have an observation. The older generation will start conversations with us and when we say we are American I am thanked as if I fought the war myself. Do you think in 60 years the older people in Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan will see Americans in the same light? Reply • Back to Top |
| To the left and their captive media, America is, was, and always will be the bad guy. Reply • Back to Top • Refresh |
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