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Yes. This is really exactly my take, too. The US Government has done incredibly stupid and catastrophically foolish and harmful things - being hoodwinked into
by casenmgreen 2y ago
Yes.
This is really exactly my take, too.
The US Government has done incredibly stupid and catastrophically foolish and harmful things - being hoodwinked into Vietnam by the French, for example - but the Government is not inherently, actually evil, in any way, shape or form.
This is not the case for China.
- hooverd 2y agoThe US govt has no agency, got it.
- casenmgreen 2y agoIn all things, there are factors which encourage, and factors which discourage, and in the end, you get what you get. The French worked as hard as possible to get American military support in Vietnam so they could remain the colonial power. They did a very good job of it. It was all an appalling tragedy. All the Vietnamese wanted was independence, and in particular from the appalling misrule of the French.
- cplusplus6382 2y agoNoam Chomsky would like a word and he wrote a book specifically addressing this propaganda ridden argument: The Myth of American Idealism https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738224/the-myth-of-american-idealism-by-noam-chomsky-and-nathan-j-robinson/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738224/the-myth-of-...
- eximius 2y agoMy comment is more to address the "whataboutism" than to say the US doesn't have faults. We exist in a time where nuance is sometimes harmful in public discourse.