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Originally Posted by Slappin Fish
Gaddafi was overthrown in record time, with minimal casualties and expense to the US.
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I'm saying...what are we doing overthrowing anybody???
Are we now the police of the whole world?
When I was growing up I was always taught we were the "good guys". And it kinda sounds like we are...but I'm thinking that we are not.
I remember growing up and being taught that we only entered WW2 because we were attacked at Pearl Harbor.
And when I was a kid in the 1960's people were protesting AGAINST Pres. Johnson & later Nixon for the war in Vietnam because we had NO business there (another French colony).
And the media was solidly skeptical of everything the govt. did and gave wide coverage and support in their coverage to the anti-war/anti-govt. movement.
These days it seems to be the exact opposite. The media are "embedded" with the military. And everybody that gets killed is a "hero" who was "defending our freedoms". WTF?
And so-called "liberals" and the media are all kissing the ass of the govt.? People are actually asking the govt. to tax them more?
I feel like somebody knocked me out and I woke up in bizzaro world.
Overthrowing other govt's is un-American and completely against everything I ever thought our country was about.
Spending 10.6 BILLION dollars a day (4 billion of it borrowed) seems pretty much un-American too.