We Have Become the Nanny NO ONE Likes

Posted by briguy119 on 01-08-2008 in United States Intervention

America has completely shifted from the isolationist principles our founding fathers stressed, which is very disturbing to me. We now spend so much attention to the rest of the world, using our power and influence to bully smaller countries around.

Now, many of those countries we took advantage of are supporting leaders who gain power by promising to end America's influence on their region (Iran and Venezuela come to mind first). So by swinging our freedom stick to make the world a safer place (at least that's what I was told, I still believe the oil companies own our government) we have made it one where you need a full body cavity search to see a baseball game.

When do you think we should intervene in world matters?

I seem to think we should only use our power to end genocides, such as Darfur, but instead influence the world by setting an example. Use the money we are spending overseas to generate jobs, invest in science and technology for cleaner energy, clean up the ghettos, fix health care, fix social security, protect our borders and ports, etc.