always enjoy the "to be sure" paragraph where chattel slavery & the killing of 3m Vietnamese is pooh pooh'ed away http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/07/03/we-didnt-kick-britains-ass-to-be-this-kind-of-country/ …pic.twitter.com/YqkEQRONNI
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there's infinite things to criticize Trump for but can we stop the Paradise Lost narrative where Trump stripped us of our national innocence
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"idealism" is a nice way of putting "killed 100,000s of Iraqis based on a lie" I supposepic.twitter.com/09J8bFDnWh
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There's "liberation" too...
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a college freshman would get beaten with a sack of oranges for putting something like this on paper
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I experienced the opposite -- I had teachers who refused to believe the US was anything but a flawed angel... sad world
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AGREED—my IR profs were definitely uncritical of
—but making unqualified claims about the emotional states of nations? youd be disappeared
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A fact is not altered by belief. At our height we tried to sell Coca-Cola to world others Mao, Stalin, etc had shall we say different goals
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We were also involved in dozens of proxy wars, and supported many dictators as long as friendly to US...
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True, true absolutely true. Any look at our history must show this. That same sober look must conclude we were better than the alternative.
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Overall, yes. From the perspective of Angola, the Philippines, Afghanistan and others its not so clear we were/are the "good" guys
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Best disinfectant is sunshine, never hide our failures/errors. Our liberating 100's of millions of people don't bring back those we failed.
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Daughter of Mob Boss: [after laundering millions of dollars] Look, it's important to acknowledge the past while celebrating the current good
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Tobacco built Duke University, pirates built North Carolina, bootleggers the Northern states. If you can find the guilty I know a magistrate
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You can't punish or get restitution from the dead, but we can shame their memories despite the 'good' they did. Which we should do. Often.
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So, who's gonna tell Max about the Cold War?
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Studying Latin & Roman Empire history one finds many very similar writings by brain-washed Roman senators & historians.
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Max Bootlicker
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Okay, I'm a serious believer in Realpolitik yet believe we sometimes have altruistic motives, but this is just dumb.
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