Outlandish Drivel about the USA as Global Cop

[unhappycamper]

http://watchingamerica.com/WA/2016/03/24/outlandish-drivel-about-the-usa-as-global-cop/

Woe unto those who praise America's peacekeeping activities in this chaotic world. What the U.S. gets in return these days is abuse that comes thick and fast.

Outlandish Drivel about the USA as Global Cop
Published in Die Presse (Austria) on 14 March 2016 by Martin Engekberg [link to original]
Translated from German by Ron Argentati. Edited by Melanie Rehfuss.
Posted on March 24, 2016.

Referring to the United States as the world's policeman or going so far as to praise it is something that often doesn't end well for many people and can generate venomous criticism in return. Now it has spawned unbelievable amnesia concerning the numerous historically significant American military interventions.

The United States has always left nothing but scorched earth in its wake; try to name one single country in the last 30 years that ended up better off after an intervention by the U.S. military. That was the tone of the reactions to this column two weeks ago. At least that was the case regarding the more coherent ones. We also get similar responses from our educated contemporaries.

Let's start by going back 30 years to 1986. Exactly what significance this particular period has may seem puzzling, but if you will allow me: How about the liberation of Kuwait from its Iraqi occupiers after the 1991 Gulf War? Would it have been better if the U.S. hadn't intervened?

It has also apparently been quickly forgotten that it was the Americans who intervened militarily in Bosnia and finally instilled peace within the region in 1995. That put an end to a years-long murder spree; something the Europeans were unable to do despite their close proximity. Even U.N. troops stood idly by as 8,000 Bosnian men — old and young — were massacred at Srebrenica. Has all that been forgotten? Four years later, it was the U.S. and not the Europeans who intervened in the Balkans to protect the Albanians from Serbian aggression.

[Human101948]

1. Yes, like the SWAT team used to serve a parking ticket warrant and ends up killing a family...

and then finds out they were in the wrong house, when their real mission was to confiscate a bag of cash through "forfeiture."

Bringing up the U.S. role in taking out the terrible Sddam Hussein while ignoring the many horrible dictators and storng men that the U.S. has happily propped up over the years, is the height of hypocrisy.

This writer is a pure and simple propagandist.