Do you really believe the crap you just posted, or do you think it's what most of the girls around here would want to hear?
Quick lesson: The US is the world's lone remaining superpower. Like it or not, we're expected to police the world. If something goes to shit in, say, Africa and we don't meddle in those nations' affairs, then we're the bad guys for letting it happen. But if we're proactive and step into others' affairs, then we're "bullies." The less powerful nations seem to only want the US to exert its power when it's convenient for them. And if we were to back out of Iraq because some of the rest of the world is whining about it, then we would have for all intents and purposes abdicated the superpower status. There's no such thing as a superpower that can be pushed around by a country that can't even defend itself from its next-door neighbor. So we'd lose our power, while everyone else would continue their push for more power. Eventually, one country would become the most powerful, and everyone else would think this new most powerful nation is a bully trying to impose its will on the rest of the world.
In short, the other nations are jealous of the power we have. They complain about us, but they would be happy to take our place in the power chain. It's not us they hate, it's not our policies they hate, what they hate is that we're in a position to push our agenda and they're not in a position to push theirs.
Now before 1989, there were two superpowers, the US and the Soviet Union. If the US hadn't built up its military and weaponry, the Soviet Union damn sure still would have. I don't know if you've ever heard of the term, "mutually assured destruction." If not, it's the only thing that prevented certain nuclear armegeddon. The Soviets knew that if they sent any nukes towards us, we'd fire ours back and wipe their entire nation clear off the face of the earth. If we launched a nuke towards them, they'd launch theirs at us and the US would be wiped clean off the face of the earth.
Both superpowers were in a constant struggle for more power. If one rested, the other wouldn't and the scales would tilt in the favor of the other. When the Soviets sent Sputnik into space, it showed they could send things into space. If we'd sat still, they probably would have refined it to a point where they could send a giant laser into space, aimed at Washington.That didn't happen, because we sent our own satellites into space.
But if you're annoyed that the USSR went belly-up and the US assumed the role of the lone superpower, and if you think our treatment of the environment is bad and our human rights isn't where it could be, just be glad the USSR didn't win out. The Soviet government had no concern at all for the environment, and that entire part of the world is completely trashed because of it. Many places are uninhabitable. And if you wanted to bitch about what the USSR was doing, you wouldn't do it if you valued your life... or your first-born son's. You also would probably be arrested or shot because you want to be a "freak" and dress differently.
Keep all that in mind when you start to wish we had no military. It might temper your views on the situation a little bit.
Honest.
itd be nice to have a govt that doesnt have that.
