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Originally Posted by Fyodor
I really have no idea what you are talking about.
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Exactly, and thats the problem my dear.
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We have gotten ourselves involved in crap that that is none of our business since our inception (see the barbary wars) It seems to me that america spends x amount of money on foreign aid while its school systems are in shambles and the disparity between the haves and have not have reached an all time high.
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You mean one of the following, or all of the following?
a) The war against Spain (this is how the U.S gained the Philipines as a colony/puppet btw).
b) The wars against Mexico
c) The slaugher of the native population
d) Importing slaves to get cheap labour
I could go on forever, but hey.
If you havent got it by now, this is how the U.S became a world power and got rich. By feeding off others. By meddling in other countries affairs.
And the U.S have never spent much money on foreign aid. Also most of that foreign aid is used as a tool to extract favours etc. During the cold war the U.S foreign aid was less than 5% of the military budget. Today, U.S foreign aid is about 10% of the Norwegian foreign aid relative to BNP. And supplying arms to the army in Guatemala so they could kill of 2-300.000 people is not foregin aid. Neither is supplying Israel, Egypt or Colombia with arms.
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The republicans in this country seem to care only about big business/globalization and the democrats care about creating a semi socialist state where people dont have to work for a living.
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Your right about the republicans, but claiming deomcrats wants to create a semi-socialist state is just funny. Im sure the big american corporations would give millions of dollars to a party advocating socialism!
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I think a blanket statement about "Americans posting on GD without any clue about the history of they're own country" is quite an assinign thing to say to me as I am quite educated on my countries history as well as alot of global history.
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Im not impressed.
I admit that Im not the easiest to impress and that Ive studied history at university, but still.