05-02-2013, 01:51 PM
Peronsally, I'm pretty tired of the position that we (the US) has taken in trying to be the world's police force. I'm done, I'm over it. I'm actually, pretty damn tired of it. The US's policies have reminded me of this girl I went to high school with. Everyone who wasn't her friend, considered her a real meddlesome bitch.
Because, she had this insane habit of getting involved in her friends drama.
And then her friend's friend's drama
And then some drama that might of sort of, almost possibly been related to a friend of a friend of a friend.
And then some drama that didn't involve a friend at all, but involved one of her friend's enemies.
Seriously. She was a meddlesome pain in the ass. And on some level, that's sort of where I feel the US has been headed / is at with it's foreign policy. And this isn't just an Obama thing. This has been going on as long as I can actively remember, and I'm sure if we go back far enough, we could question involvement in a lot of conflicts, arguments, loud disagreements, that have gone on since at least the 20th century and the US' foreign Policy (I'll readily give you, and even go so far as to say that I'm not including involvement in either WWI or II in this generalization)
Maybe it's a factor of my age, and how I perceive things. The first real.... "war" that I remember in my lifetime was "Desert Storm". I was 10 when the Gulf War stuff got heated up in August of 1990, and 11 when it finished the following April. I was born in 1979, so I'm sure that plays a part in my perspective. I know more about Vietnam from talking to my father (who was in it) than I did in school, and more about WWII from my Grandfather, than from in School.
But anyway. If it were me, The Syria Mess is not ours to fix. Going in with the idea that the US has currently (HERE! Let us fix you, and then give you the grand idea of "democracy!") just sort of irks me.
Because, she had this insane habit of getting involved in her friends drama.
And then her friend's friend's drama
And then some drama that might of sort of, almost possibly been related to a friend of a friend of a friend.
And then some drama that didn't involve a friend at all, but involved one of her friend's enemies.
Seriously. She was a meddlesome pain in the ass. And on some level, that's sort of where I feel the US has been headed / is at with it's foreign policy. And this isn't just an Obama thing. This has been going on as long as I can actively remember, and I'm sure if we go back far enough, we could question involvement in a lot of conflicts, arguments, loud disagreements, that have gone on since at least the 20th century and the US' foreign Policy (I'll readily give you, and even go so far as to say that I'm not including involvement in either WWI or II in this generalization)
Maybe it's a factor of my age, and how I perceive things. The first real.... "war" that I remember in my lifetime was "Desert Storm". I was 10 when the Gulf War stuff got heated up in August of 1990, and 11 when it finished the following April. I was born in 1979, so I'm sure that plays a part in my perspective. I know more about Vietnam from talking to my father (who was in it) than I did in school, and more about WWII from my Grandfather, than from in School.
But anyway. If it were me, The Syria Mess is not ours to fix. Going in with the idea that the US has currently (HERE! Let us fix you, and then give you the grand idea of "democracy!") just sort of irks me.
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