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Like how US saved Haiti and Libya and Iraq, right?

• mememachine 10y ago
  this is a good point. i dont think you can really call the us good guys here (or cuba, for that matter)
  • blahi 10y ago
    There are no good guys. There are just interest. The US protects its interests. Embargo on oil exports to the US? Fuck up your whole region so bad that this can't happen again. Divide and concur. Communism on its shore? Well, nobody goes on this forsaken place or else... That's how you keep power and that's why you have such a high standard of living. You think it's because you work hard but it's not. At least not primarily.
• Hondor 10y ago
  More like how it saved South Korea. Saving usually hasn't worked, but that's one clear counterexample.
  • crdoconnor 10y ago
    It didn't try to "save" South Korea from itself it tried to build it up into an industrial bulwark against the Soviet Union.
• tomjen3 10y ago
  And Germany and Japan. If the U.S. Had a bit of sanity they could have saved Iraq if they were willing to accept that it should have been split into three countries rather than a pointless attempt to create a country that inky existed as part of the British/French carving up the middle East.
• geezerjay 10y ago
  > Like how US saved Haiti and Libya and Iraq, right? Libya was a NATO intervention that was pushed and led by France, specifically Sarkozy's government.
  • Pica_soO 10y ago
    The tail gave the dog horrible tremors indeed.
  • varjag 10y ago
    It also ended up a lot better than non-intervention in Syria. Although make no mistake, the USA is blamed for both anyway.
    • geezerjay 10y ago
      > It also ended up a lot better than non-intervention in Syria. It ended marginally better because NATO's intervention decisively tipped the scales against Gaddafi's regime. The Syrian civil war has been in a stalemate for years, and only recently has Assad's regime been making inroads due to Russia's decisive and no-holds-barred military intervention.
      • varjag 10y ago
        If by marginally we mean a difference of half million dead and three million seeking refuge, I beg to disagree. And yes Syria is an intangible mess now, probably the same would have been in Lybia if it was left to own civil war for 5 more years.
        • geezerjay 10y ago
          > If by marginally we mean a difference of half million dead and three million seeking refuge, I beg to disagree. Now, factor in the fact that Libya is now a failed state and the refugee crisis is largely caused by human traffickers using Libya as a staging area to send those countless lifeboats packed with countless unwitting victims, a great number of which end up dead in the Mediterranean.
          • varjag 10y ago
            The cause of the current refugee crisis is not Libya, this is really creative interpretation of the results of Syria non-intervention policy.