Saturday, September 28, 2013
Time for America to mind its own damn business
To extend the interventionist argument to its ultimate level of absurdity....
If I oppose the idea of pouring more gasoline on the fire by sending arms to the Muslim insurgency in Mindanao, I'm a de-facto supporter of the vile and corrupt Filipino government. If I'm against arming the sundry bands of rapists and murderers in the DR Congo, where over a million have died during the last decade, I'm an appeaser, and no doubt I aid and abet the equally criminal government over there. How about supplying the Maoist revolutionaries fighting the Nepalese regime? Was it our moral duty to equip the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2010? Where does our supposed obligation to support every band of "Freedom Fighters" begin, and where the hell does it finally leave off?
Where it comes to the international situation, the believers in American exceptionalism get quite carried away. You may recall that Republicans are preparing to shut down the federal government AGAIN, and the sequester that's resulted in tens of thousands of pre-schoolers losing their Head Start enrollment is looking to become a permanent fixture. How about working to get our own extremely f*cked up house in order before sticking our national proboscis into yet another foreign entanglement?
Isn't it bad enough that USA already has 800 military bases in 140 countries without further exacerbating our budgetary woes by sending arms to a lot of people who are now openly declaring their intention to impose Sharia Law, should they prevail in Syria?
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