Comment by landdate
5 hours ago
> The cold brew order is no new behavior. We know what it is. The American empire is just the fourth incarnation of what started as Roman, became Christian European, and then predominantly British. We know what it is. We still have it in our veins, the disdain these tourists are showing. Their carelessness and abstraction. They are the rulers, the ones who believe they are giving meaning to reality for the first time.
When it's your time it's your time. And in comparison to the empires of old, the American empire is far more humane to it's subjects. The biggest mistake our nation has made in the last 100 years is being merciful to the war mongers; Perhaps if they received justice instead of undeserved tolerance they wouldn't be so insolent to complain of what is put in their bowl.
This is just wrong.
The Marshall Plan was the smartest foreign policy decision the US ever made.
Turned enemies into allies and got the world acting in our interests without the overhead of running actual colonies.
The US was fine without an oversized influence on foreign countries and the burden of defending Western values and democracy. We accepted the empire given without thinking of the added responsibilities. Vietnam, Korea, Cuba, israel, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Iran are those conflicts worth having a higher global influence? The standard of living is higher in the countries we protected in Western Europe than in our own country. It's a Pyrrhic victory. Without this 400 lb weight around our necks, America and its citizens would be in a better, more sustainable position.
Operation Paperclip sure was great at bringing a bunch of fascists to the US.
Your list is imcomplete I believe:
Too merciful to slaveowners before, too merciful to warmongers as of late and way too merciful to grifters for as long as this country has existed.
I learnt that you should never bet against the U.S but I don't know how much longer you will be able to waste that seemingly infinite potential.
Good times creates bored, ignorant men. Bored ignorant, men create bad times.
This is true, but remember, bad times creates violent, ignorant men who also create bad times.
The American empire genocided the natives.
That was the express and public reason for nearly driving the bison to extinction. Said so by General Sherman himself.
To starve indians nearly to death, so that they would conform to American imperialism. Then we invented "schools" which were advertised to "Kill the indian, save the man" by erasing any remnants of their culture.