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  • DigitalTraveler42
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    1 year ago

    Also, our military presence in the area drew in/recruited way more terrorists to the region than we were ever able to neutralize

    GTFO, lol, so by that logic the US had a military presence in Rwanda during the genocide? What about Sudan (whom is not US allies but Russian)? What about all of these many other examples? You might as well have just commented “US bad” and it still would have been as factually correct.

    Doctors and teachers and election administrators we teach can’t turn around and shoot the hospitals schools and community centers you gave them at you, can’t say the same about soldiers and weapons.

    Oh the US doesn’t help train and assist doctors and teachers in Africa? Election Administrators?

    As an American you should be embarrassed at how little you know about how your tax money is being spent to help the world grow to become a better place.

    • @TokenBoomerOP
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      1 year ago

      Neo-Colonialism. The U.S. isn’t just doing it for “freedom.” They expect things in return. Whether profits from resource extraction, or just to prevent Russia/ China gaining a foothold.

      • @gAlienLifeform
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        21 year ago

        Also, when the US trained soldier tells the US trained doctor, “We’ve gotta look like we’re fighting terrorism if we want to keep getting money from the US, so hand over anyone who comes into your hospital from the wrong neighborhood and we’ll practice those enhanced interrogation techniques on them,” the net effect for the US’s image is a negative one. When we go looking for terrorism and say we’re handing out lots of resources to anyone who will help us find terrorism, we just end up finding a lot of “terrorism” and creating a lot of terrorists.