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Unfortunately for the "US is bad" narrative, conflict in the Middle East far predates US involvement. Genocides, ethnic cleansing, forced conversions, and plen
by taeric 3y ago
Unfortunately for the "US is bad" narrative, conflict in the Middle East far predates US involvement. Genocides, ethnic cleansing, forced conversions, and plenty of other atrocities have been happening globally for a long time. These did not come into being with the modern world.
This is not to say that there are not valid criticisms of US actions. But the Arab world deserves more criticism than it typically gets.
- r00fus 3y agoBefore the US it was the other colonialists (mainly the Dutch and British). And before that it was the Crusades, the story goes way back. The US, EU, etc don't have a "moral" leg to stand on when it's always a colonialist attitude they have over this region.
- taeric 3y agoIf you are going back, I'd be shocked if anyone has a moral leg to stand on. The West isn't better because we came from different roots. We didn't. We have improved, though. One of the ways we improved was an honest assessment of our faults. Not perfectly honest, but we have been improving. Much of the rest of the world powers blatantly lie on their morality. Shamefully so.
- Geisterde 3y agoCriticise away, when we arent actively occupying multiple countries and funding terrorist groups. I agree with you, western culture is better, but you arent putting it on good display when we invade countries to control their oil.
- taeric 3y agoI'm not at all clear what you mean, here? You can look up the active occupations around the world right now. That is also something that was not invented by the US. Nor is it monopolized by western nations. I'm open to the "glass houses" take where people should be careful leveling criticism. I have a hard time seeing how this puts any of the terrorist organizations in a position that they are putting on a good display.