Comment by kumarvvr
6 years ago
Iraq and Afghanistan are ecomonic and geopolitical reasons as well.
Economic expansion is slightly lesser degrading than border expansion.
You may bankrupt a man, he will sulk and move on, but if you occupy his land, he will lash out.
It's still expansionism, and strange to say it's not.
It is not. US invading Iraq and Afghanistan was not to expand its territories. You can argue that the invasion was based on false information that Iraq had WMDs or Afghanistan harbored Taliban (which in turn sheltered Osama bin Laden) or you could say that the invasion was to topple dictatorial regimes or you could say that US invaded these countries for oil. Whatever explanation you give it doesn't amount to expansion of territories. Expansion is far far worse. Think colonization. Think subjugation. Think apartheid. Think slavery. This is apart from death and destruction that expansion causes. China is expansionist. It wants lands and more lands. It will do anything to get it. Unless the oppressed country resists it.
This is bonkers and absolutely doublethink.
I guess you Americans are not familiar with ideologies like the Big Stick Policy and Manifest Destiny. (coined 1845).
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