Wrecking Crew 0
Dan Simpson looks back at 60 years of American interventionism–Indochina, the Middle East, Afghanistan, among others–and becomes profoundly depressed at the outcomes. A snippet:
Some analysts argue that this is U.S. policy, that the United States deliberately busts up countries and regions to keep them susceptible to our influence and incapable of presenting problems for us — though I don’t know that I would agree. The proclaimed cause can change. It might be anti-communism, anti-terrorism or the promotion of democracy, but our armed aggression and the resulting broken, weakened countries is the same, for the most part.
Read it, and think.
