04-04-14, 12:03 PM
midden,
It seems to me that our shameful imperialist days are not yet over. From the Suez Canal debacle, our wholesale theft of much of the Middle East oil, our support of bloody American foreign policy for decades and decades right up to and through the illegal and immoral recent war in Iraq. And our support of the so called exploitative 'free market'. Then there's out arms trade, we are now stuck in a Military Economic Complex, as a country we export serious amounts of arms to some of the most repressive and disgusting regimes around the globe.
But we, and the other members of the G8 admitted, and admitted back in 2005, (as I posted above) that our AID programmes are actually exploitative and do much damage, and that something urgently needed to be done to resolve such totally unacceptable practises. Yet it's now 2014 and nothing has changed.
So how is it that you think 'we' are greater than others?
Quote:But it seems to me that this country has been held under a dark cloud of guilt from centuries ago for the slave trade and empire building. Even by those who have benefited from those actions
It seems to me that our shameful imperialist days are not yet over. From the Suez Canal debacle, our wholesale theft of much of the Middle East oil, our support of bloody American foreign policy for decades and decades right up to and through the illegal and immoral recent war in Iraq. And our support of the so called exploitative 'free market'. Then there's out arms trade, we are now stuck in a Military Economic Complex, as a country we export serious amounts of arms to some of the most repressive and disgusting regimes around the globe.
Quote:I actually don't mind the aide being given and I do also think that's why in part we are greater than others.
But we, and the other members of the G8 admitted, and admitted back in 2005, (as I posted above) that our AID programmes are actually exploitative and do much damage, and that something urgently needed to be done to resolve such totally unacceptable practises. Yet it's now 2014 and nothing has changed.
So how is it that you think 'we' are greater than others?