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Not really, unless you mean that in some really broad sense. I think that when US foreign policy fails it is usually because it is driven more by domestic polit

Not really, unless you mean that in some really broad sense. I think that when US foreign policy fails it is usually because it is driven more by domestic politics than foreign realities.

kushti 11y ago
Afghanistan / Iraq (just two examples of reckless schemes) wars were started just to transfer taxpayers money into war corporations accounts. Such an absence of adequate goals could leads only to a failure(and that what was seen). "Domestic politics" is just serves as a screen for corruption schemes(as the whole american "political system" is just a screen for corruption processes).
- Happydayz 11y ago
  Assuming your premise is true, that the US government exists to transfer taxpayer money into select corporate accounts, then there are far easier ways to do this than venturing off to war. Most of the large private companies that benefited financially from the Iraq and Afghan wars are primarily logistics or general defense companies; there are plenty of other opportunities for these guys to win new defense contracts outside of active war zones.
  - kushti 11y ago
    A war is not the easiest way to steal money definitely, but an outcome is the biggest, due to huge budgets and secrecy of spendings. Only Iraq scheme costs taxpayers more than $ trillion.
  - saiya-jin 11y ago
    unfortunately, in some way or other, his premises are true. more chaos it creates, the longer it all takes, the more cash extracted. take a look at afghanistan - there was never a critical mass of enough soldiers/equipment to swiftly win the war, conquer whole territory. just enough to appear winning, but not really (in reality, US lost the war, in similar way as soviets did). look what's happening with iraq - US is/will be coming back. oh gosh, what an unfortunate coincidence. is there still anybody out there convinced that iraq game was about protecting US citizens anyhow? I mean, look at the map, look 12 years back at politics, there was no threat, there is still no threat to US citizens back home. Just enough to piss off radical muslims, and radicalize rest. let's not forget we're talking about oil-richest region on the planet. yes, coincidence again... why are there so many lobbyists in Washington? i mean these people should be put in jail for treason
digi_owl 11y ago
So while it may not be corruption in the classic sense, it certainly approaches pork barrel politics.

Not really, unless you mean that in some really broad sense. I think that when US foreign policy fails it is usually because it is driven more by domestic politics than foreign realities.

kushti 11y ago

Afghanistan / Iraq (just two examples of reckless schemes) wars were started just to transfer taxpayers money into war corporations accounts. Such an absence of adequate goals could leads only to a failure(and that what was seen). "Domestic politics" is just serves as a screen for corruption schemes(as the whole american "political system" is just a screen for corruption processes).

Happydayz 11y ago
Assuming your premise is true, that the US government exists to transfer taxpayer money into select corporate accounts, then there are far easier ways to do this than venturing off to war. Most of the large private companies that benefited financially from the Iraq and Afghan wars are primarily logistics or general defense companies; there are plenty of other opportunities for these guys to win new defense contracts outside of active war zones.
- kushti 11y ago
  A war is not the easiest way to steal money definitely, but an outcome is the biggest, due to huge budgets and secrecy of spendings. Only Iraq scheme costs taxpayers more than $ trillion.
- saiya-jin 11y ago
  unfortunately, in some way or other, his premises are true. more chaos it creates, the longer it all takes, the more cash extracted. take a look at afghanistan - there was never a critical mass of enough soldiers/equipment to swiftly win the war, conquer whole territory. just enough to appear winning, but not really (in reality, US lost the war, in similar way as soviets did). look what's happening with iraq - US is/will be coming back. oh gosh, what an unfortunate coincidence. is there still anybody out there convinced that iraq game was about protecting US citizens anyhow? I mean, look at the map, look 12 years back at politics, there was no threat, there is still no threat to US citizens back home. Just enough to piss off radical muslims, and radicalize rest. let's not forget we're talking about oil-richest region on the planet. yes, coincidence again... why are there so many lobbyists in Washington? i mean these people should be put in jail for treason

digi_owl 11y ago

So while it may not be corruption in the classic sense, it certainly approaches pork barrel politics.