Global Empires

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Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Well, take Afganistan - what should we have done there - let the Taliban exist? Another example is Hitler or the Kaiser before him - should we have just let Germany appoint another Kaiser or another Hitler - of course not. I think the problem comes when we chose the people to supplant the overthrown govt. A good example of this is SH.

But, to say the U.S. should never help overthrow a horrible dictator and then control his replacement so that another is not in the job is just wrong.

we often overthrow them and replace them with someone who works for our interests, by that i mean business, corporate interests, and not for the welfare of their own countries' people. Yes, evil despots are bad. But what we replace them with is bad, too.
I have the feeling we could talk about this forever...