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well, any place we try to "help" we really just end up invading anyhow. You've kind of hit upon my point; we're trying to play this global peacekeeper role but playing that aggressively and without truly assisting other countries or understanding their problems (in most cases, grabbing the largest group of armed thugs on our way to the capitol). We've spent years tooling around for a real enemy and right now, we've killed anyone dumb enough to straight step to us.
We face an era now where our enemies are economic forces, not necessarily nations. The system is failing the majority of the people who rely on it, both at home and abroad. Any kind of comprehensive change that would try to aim for areas that are "still salvageable" is missing the point. Our entire attitude towards "fixing" problems is to go in there and smash it up more and that does not work, it just pisses people off.
This is the problem with "Terrorists": it can be anybody. White, Brown, male, female, young, old. Regardless of Region, regardless of background. What's scary is that these things don't necessarily happen to "sick" people; it happens to rational, sane people, exposed to terrible circumstances, who feel maligned and marginalized by the system. Random attacks by lone white nutjobs against public institutions and civilians is a kind of sick irony because that's exactly what we do abroad. Don't get me wrong, there are some real monsters in the world, but one has to ask just how much of a hand we've had in creating them. And if we can change that, how do we stop creating them?
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