Comment by anonym29
1 day ago
I'm not "Anti-US-power", I'm anti-genocide, anti-terrorism, anti-war-crime, anti-torture, anti-invading-sovereign-nations, and pro-democracy. It's not my fault that the US has systemically made deliberate attacks against civilians, war crimes, rampant human rights abuses, invasions of sovereign nations, and overthrowing of democratically elected leaders the basis for US foreign policy and military doctrine for the last century or so.
When you ask me to look at the horror of the world wars, does that include the horror of the only country to ever use atomic weapons in conflict deliberately dropping them on cities they knew were full of civilians? If that's what the American version of "peace" looks like, I'm not interested in the American version of "peace". The Soviet Union never deliberately nuked New York. China never deliberately nuked Taipei. North Korea never deliberately nuked Seoul. Iran never deliberately nuked Jerusalem.
You propose a hypothetical future where you guess that a world without US "stability" involves nuclear weapons, while ignoring the fact that the world with US "stability" already involved them. History speaks louder than hypothesis.
There has never been a time in history devoid of crime, torture, genocide, and authoritarianism. But the last 80 years have seen those things at a low ebb in favor of democracy and peace.
Please tell me what the last 80 years would have looked like with an isolationist US, weak or no NATO, and an unimpeded ascent of dictatorial regimes. Answer: even more of all those things you purport to hate.
The US is the worst superpower, except for all the other ones. The choice is not between good and evil, it's between evil and less evil. (Just like presidential elections.) Don't be naive and empower the greater evil just because you're displeased with the lesser.
I'm not saying you should stop pressuring the US to act morally, but asking it to leave a power vacuum is dangerous.
Edit: typo
Imagine thinking that "isolationist" means not repeatedly deposing other countries' governments.
Is saying "The US should not invade Venezuela" asking the US to leave a power vacuum? Because that's been the only assertion I've made in this entire conversation about what the US should do, as opposed to what it has already done.