Day #11 - Kinesthetics - Reaching out and Touching the Nations of the World

Foreign Policy.  Fah.  Let's go for what this really is, America.  Call the kettle black already.  America loves to stick it's big nose...as well as its sticky fingers where it doesn't belong.  Right smack dab in the middle of other people's business.

Oh, we disguise it well.  We call it "Political Concern"..."helping our neighbors keep the peace", "Establishing Democracy where it's needed".  Again, I say "Fah".  There's a reason we do this, and I hate to inform you of this, but it isn't helping anybody.  I'm sorry, what I really meant to say is, it doesn't help anyone...except us.  Our motives are very much selfish, of this you can be sure.  Do you really imagine that, when we help people "rebuild" after we blow them to bits, that these people say "Wow...those wonderful Americans, I'm so glad they're here."  You have to be joking.  No, we have our reasons.  Let's shake down at least one of the most vivid examples we have.

They blew up the center of financial dealings in our country.  The symbol of our power.  The highest buildings we have, the Twin Towers.  Because of this, we took our troops to the middle east to get the man responsible.   Osama Bin Lama, the most feared terrorist we knew of.  But wait, this man was no terrorist.  No, Osama was one of our dearest friends.  G.W.'s relative Ex-President George Bush took very good care of this man, and his family.  Heck, we even shuffled his family out of the country first, before we invaded Osama's supposed hiding place in the middle east.  And then, when we couldn't "find him", we then blamed a whole different country and demolished their capital, then transplanted some of our "Democracy" over there for them to experience.  We then decided, since we weren't getting very far on our "Find Osama" mission (not that we looked very hard),  to "take our revenge" out on a guy we hated a lot back in the day, Sadam.  Was it because they were harboring the terrorists responsible for our problems in the U.S.?  Hell no.  The war, and everyone that died for it was one big dupe.  Done in the name of freedom for Americans.  Freedom from fear, and freedom from Terrorists.  Bull.  Hockypucks.  No, we did it for purely selfish reasons, believe it.  But hey, we got that Sadam, just like we promised we would someday...and bonus, we got a foothold into a country that had plenty of gas and oil stored up....no, nothing selfish here.

Oh, we don't have to stop there.  Noooooo......Let's go to Vietnam.  A "police action".  Done to remove the oppression of Communists trying to recover South Vietnam.  Oh, and let's not forget Korea.  Same thing.  Modern examples you ask?  Russia.  China.  The "Continuing war in Afghanistan".  Unbelievable.  You think the citizens of any of the aforementioned people were thrilled the U.S. "came to their rescue"?  I can count them all on my numerous fingers and toes.  After that, there were an awful lot of ungrateful citizens, make no mistake.

Let's look to a few that are a bit closer.  The Philippines.  Guam.  Puerto Rico.  If you're thinking these people were happy to have us meddle in their affairs, nothing could be further from the truth.

The thing I love the most is, we hardly need a reason.  No, we're HAPPY to do it.  We ENJOY meddling, hell, it's in our nature, as U.S. Citizens, to help the little guy out.  Having problems in your homeland?  We'll take care of it.  You can handle it yourselves?  Nahhhhhh.....no really, we INSIST!!  And don't worry, if we blow up 3/4 our your country in the process, we'll help you rebuild, don't worry.

Did we really need to stop Communism?  No, it pretty much took care of itself, as I remember.  Russia quit, cold-turkey.  1/2 of Germany, no problems losing communism there.  China, Korea and North Vietnam are about our only hold-outs.  And we had major wars in both Korea and Vietnam...and all we got out of those were, instead of Communist neighbors...we now have REALLY pissed off neighbors.

Here's another one I love...Natural disaster relief.  Hey!!  Mr. President...eyes FRONT (or for those of you in the military, tennn...SHON!)!  Look around you!  Plenty of disaster 'round here pal.  Pain and death are the natural way of things.  And all those communists we fought back...are still in place, and we're...well, we got killed.  Death, whether experiencing it or doling it out is something we're getting very good at.

Day 11, 15 to go.