Pretty blindsided view. If the US is pro democracy, why do they support 73% of the world's dictators, including their best buddy Saudi Arabia?
There are so many dictators in the world.Why US will act in hostile posture with them unless they threatened American interest or global peace and order? US relation with Saudi is like marriage of convenience rather than any loving affairs.American has no love or respect for Saudi regime.US is maintaining relation with them because there is no democratic movement within Saudi Arabia.If there was any powerful democratic movement in KSA then US would have abandoned Saudi regime in a same way they had abandoned Hosni Mobarak.But it has to come from within Saudi.There are at least 50 dictatorship in the world.Do you expect American to make them enemy out of nothing when they are not much of a threat like what Taliban or Saddam was? No, America will despise them from heart but will maintain normal relationship until some prospective democratic movement start in those countries.USA is against dictatorship in Belarus, Russia, Myanmar, China, Venezuela, Zimbabwe,Iran Iraq and many other countries, because there is a democratic opposition in those countries which America can support.tell me any incidence in the last 50 years where USA supported a dictatorship against a democratic alternative? There are some monarchy in the world where democracy is still in it's infancy, why USA will turn against them? Does it make any sense to make them democratic forcefully? No, US will allow them to undergo democratic evolution until and unless they act recklessly like Saddam or Gaddafi.
What do I expect after 9/11? Since 16 or 17 plane members were Saudi, I would expect invasion of Saudi Arabia.
Why? Had Saudi govt. stood behind those terrorist ? Why US will cut head to cure headache?
Why did they topple democratically elected prime minister of Iran and put in a dictator shah? Because UK didn't like the that the elected official wanted to nationalise oil and give benefits to it's citizens instead of enriching UK. Why do the US hate Iran so much and calls them terrorists when there have been a total of zero terrorist attack on US by an Irani, but hey, Saudis are good because they are US ally.
I did not said American had no fault or 100 percent innocent.Removing Mosaddegh was one such fault American did.But you have to put that episode in it's proper context, then you can understand why USA acted in that way.That was the period of intense cold war rivalry and Mosaddegh was suspected to be a Soviet communist sympathizer.So US did an unconventional act by removing him.But Americans now very much regret that toppling .You know, even American are not above geo-political miscalculation.
I have said already, Americans have no love for Saudi or other gulf monarchy.They are tolerating those monarchy only because there are no alternative.
Saddam was bad. No doubt, but the solution of US? There are more terrorist now then there were before war on terror started 17 years ago. You would think an ineffectual army like the US's would indicate time to move on.
Saddam's peace was a peace of graveyard.A sectarian time bomb which exploded once Saddam era ruthless suppression was removed.Do you want that kind of peace? USA did not anticipated the sectarian quagmire there that will turn that ugly once everyone come out from darkness.American had genuine goodwill for Iraqi people which gone bad due to some unavoidable and unforeseen circumstances which American could not controlled.They thought Iraq will turn around like Germany or Japan after US occupation following WW2.But they did not realized, middle eastern countries are not like Germany or Japan.
What about Vietnam? Cambodia? Have you ever seen the documentaries on horrific things US did in Cambodia that haunts Cambodians still? Do the people of Cambodia deserve this? Even after all these time they still get body parts amputated by bombs.
I have said earlier, communist North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam which had defence pact with USA for military help in case North attack.USA did nothing wrong fighting alongside with South Vietnamese to repel communist north Vietnamese attack backed by China and Soviet.But war quickly tuned into a guerilla ambush operating from impenetrable jungle.So American had to turn drastic measures like carpet bombing.Once you are in a war and finding your back on the wall, then only objective paramount to you is to beat back the enemy at any cost.So large number of civilian casualty were committed by all sides.You can blame the warlike tendency of human nature for that.Blaming only US while thinking others were innocent like dove is not helpful.
What about Niger? US is currently waging war on 8 different countries. Niger is one of them. Guess what Niger has, nuclear reserves. I guess Niger needed democracy, because they were nowhere on nuclear mining before US invaded and now they are one of the top countries. Yet the benefit doesn't go to Niger. Niger do get bullets of freedom and democracy though.
Niger is one of the most fragile state in the world holding one of the biggest Uranium reserve.It's neighboring countries Nigeria, Mali,Chad all are rocked by Islamist terrorist insurgency.Not so long ago, Islamist militia captured vast swath of Mali.Think about what will happen if those guys take control of those Uranium.US, French forces are there to ensure security there.If Niger,Mali were powerful, functioning countries, then American, French force deployment had not been necessary.Where did you got the fact of Niger getting bullet? Are American waging war against Niger? You are sounding like, American are waging war against South Korea by deploying troops there to prevent North Korean invasion.Just by virtue of American troops presence, S.Korean are getting bullet, or South Korea occupied or American constantly shoving democracy to already democratic South Korea.Niger is already more or less a democratic country.Why American would go there to preach democracy? Have you found any specific American acts there which you consider detrimental to Niger's interest? Or are you talking about this issue of US presence in Niger from your general impression about US?
It's funny when people bring up how good a country treats it's own citizen to then say, therefor it's okay if they do war crimes in other countries. As if the only lives that actually matter are the ones that already have good lives but those who live in a bad country and have bad living condition, should get much worse by those that have it good. Prime example of this is when people bring up Israel treating people in it's own boundaries.
In which country American did war crime? Or specifically invaded to torment the people of that country? Are American waging war against any normal, democratic, peaceful country around? America waged war against Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, Stalinist North Korea, Communist invader North Vietnam,Ruthless dictator Saddam's Iraq, Taliban terrorist held Afghanistan.Have US waged war against countries which are full of natural resource but peaceful? Like Qatar, UAE, Norway, Kuwait, Azerbaijan, Malaysia, Canada? Has America grabbed their resource by waging unprovoked war against them? Just because, Saddam's Iraq was rich in oil, so many have made conclusion that 'America wage war for oil'. Where is 'free Iraqi oil for America'now? Iraq is still selling oil in international market according to international price.Why America is not invading other oil rich country one by one?
US, Saudi and Israel are the biggest terrorists. US has done good too. But you are trying to whitewash bad things it has done by bringing up good deeds.
Whether this three countries are the biggest terrorist is subjective to personal opinion. Some will agree with you, others will not. It is futile to argue with such a sweeping statement.You are entitled to hold your personal opinion.Even you can publicly propagate your view of USA being the biggest terrorist while sitting in American soil.You will not face any problem.Noam Chomsky is giving this type of statement for 50 years sitting in New York without any problem.So can you. I am not sure about Israel, whether you can propagate of Israel being the biggest terrorist while sitting in Tel Aviv. But don't try this in Saudi Arabia.You will be in a big trouble.
The same Trump who came to power on his promise of a Muslim ban in the USA?
