Two wrongs don't make a right, MM. No wonder most of the Arab world feels resentment towards the western powers. Just look at how many times we have all collectively shit on them. And the USA has, no arguments please, got to be the biggest culprit of that.
Have you forgotten the invasion of Persia and the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company scandals? What of Britain creating new nations in the Middle East and then telling one nation that they would now be ruled by a totally different ethnic group? Oh and that whole Anthony Eden and the Suez Crisis thing, terrible indeed.
You can't bitch about America without getting your own hands dirty.
Oh, remind me again why the USA hated communism so. If I remember rightly, it didn't really do any harm to the USA. In fact, I'd like to have seen how America and the UK coped with destroying Nazi Germany without the Eastern Front.
Bear in mind, Overlord was not planned until WELL after Operation Barbarossa, and it was only undertaken at the absolute behest of many members of the general staff of the Allies, and the absolute dire urging of Stalin, as well as a very real realization that communism could have a foothold all over Western Europe as well as Eastern after the fall of Germany. By 1944, Hitler's meddling in the affairs of the Wehrmact had officially caused the obliteration of any chance the German military had of turning the war in the east around. If it were not for Operation Barbarossa, the Allies would have taken a better planned and safer route to taking down the Third Reich, most likely involving aerial supremacy, which by June of 1941 was practically achieved, and a gradually intensifying strategic bombing campaign, including the eventual use of nuclear weapons. Now if it were not for Hitler's ambition, an eastern front would never have been opened, but history happened the way it did, and it is impossible to say that Hitler would not have eventually attacked the Soviet Union, because anyone who knows even the basics of Nazi Germany would know that Hitler's book, Mein Kampf, clearly lays out the "untermensch" status of Slavs as only being worthy to be conquered. Regardless of the fact that neither Britain nor the United States, nor a good portion of the world liked Stalinism, Leninism, or other various branches of Soviet Communism, it was Hitler's personal beliefs that drove him to attack the USSR, which caused the ultimate downfall of Germany. Remember, Operation Barbarossa came well before US intervention, and Overlord was simply the opening of another front which would not have occurred if the war had been seen as clear cut back in 1941, when plans to breach the Atlantic Wall had begun.
And the USA are:
a) Always right.
b) The world police force.
c) the sole victors in every situation.
a) No, but we're not always wrong as everyone sees any superpower that has ever existed.
b) Only when the UN does nothing
c) We did not win the Vietnamese conflict, however I defy you to find one instance in which the United States has lost a war.
And also, I'd like to ask Silent Killa to read my last post again. I did say the USA AND RUSSIA created the Cold war. Remember wars have TWO sides. Even civil wars.
If anything created the Cold War, it was the lackluster negotiations on each side, and the shuffling of presidents at the end of World War II. What FDR and Churchill had promised Stalin at Yalta had quickly changed in the post-war environment, and Truman and the new British government had no intentions of letting communism spread. Nonetheless, these tensions had been rising for years, and the Cold War cannot be blamed on the actions of two countries alone, but only on the followers of the two beliefs (Communism and capitalism) and the vast differences between the ideologies.
Meanwhile, two other middle-eastern nations, namely Israel and Pakistan, have been pointing nukes at one another for ages now, and nobody's stepped in! Why's that? They're at eachother's throat over a little shit of land. I wonder where our glorious global referee is? Cor blimey ref, are you blind!
Israel and Pakistan are fighting over something? Did I miss something?
I wonder how the USA and UK "knew" Saddam had WMD's by the way? Oh yeah. They kept the invoice. And now guess what? He didn't have any! Oops, it's all been a big cockup, so let's say it was about freedom! Yes, that'll keep the critics quiet! *Prez goes to sign big oil contract in his new sovreign nation*
Obviously you only watch CNN, because they cut out the reports that state that
trace amounts of various chemical agents were found in artillery shells, indicating that at one point they had contained chemical weapons. You missed it right? Not blind ignorance or anything.
I still don't believe that just because a nation isn't as "free" as yours, you have the right to go and impose your own jackboot on it in the name of freedom. If you really DO believe you have this right, why don't you Americans put your money where your mouth is and fuck North Korea over? They're probably the least free people on Earth. Even Death Row inmates are freer.
I'm not quite sure about this one, oh wait, THEY HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS! Also, they have a dictator insane enough to use them. You want to go there and get nuked? Go ahead.
You want proof they have nuclear weapons? Read this press release.
http://www.globalsec...0211-kcna01.htmNow please, do tell me that this post was not actually written by you, because if it was I will have to lower my expectations from you and include it in the "total crap" category, because frankly, this is nothing but paranoid, ignorant ranting with no end. You cannot argue with a deaf person, so please, appeal to reason and think when you post.