US Foreign Policy 1991-Today

The past 16 loops around the sun have been very eventful ones in terms of political change. Sadly most Americans have little or no concept of how this change has affected our place in the eyes of the planet's populace. The mindset of the majority is cemented in an ideology that sees us as a benign and just force in a wicked world that we must set right. Somehow Americans missed the fact that Clinton deployed more troops overseas than any president since FDR. They didn't realize that we have a military presence in over 100 countries. The masses also missed the fact that with our unprecedented military superiority and economic might we could end every single war before it started; not to mention the majority of disease and famine. They also seem to not understand that using our army, navy and air force in the current political climate can't be disguised as anything but opportunistic aggression. Sure, at home we can play it off as 'peace-keeping' or enforcing UN resolutions, but no one buys this shit that isn't programmed to believe lies, or benefits from doing so. The fact of the last 16 years is that as soon as the balance of power tipped in our favor we immediately began ensuring that the US could run the world as we see fit. All the petty little shit they cover in the media is a complete smokescreen intended to confuse the smart and infuse the stupid with hatred. Example- 1999: we attack Serbia in support of the KLA, a Muslim extremist group seeking to secede. 2001: we attack Afghanistan to free the country from Muslim extremists. Or how about our favorite rally word, Democracy- 2002: the CIA supports an attempt to overthrow the Democratic government of Venezuela. 2004: Iraq is invaded so we can depose a dictator and set up a Democracy. It makes me want to scream until my lungs bleed that no amount of evidence, persuasion, reason or logic will make these fuckwits admit the omnipresent truth that we are ruling the majority of the planet so we can consume as many goods as is feasible. If ignorance is strength then that explains our present power, because this land is the most benighted mental environment one can imagine. An entire nation of self-obsessed savages that will believe any lie, stomach any atrocity and sacrifice anything just so long as we can buy, consume and breed without being bothered by the details of how it is all accomplished. A lot of people blame the government for what has gone down in these tumultuous 16 years, but that is simplistic scapegoating of the most pathetic kind. Until America owns up to the fact that we instigated and sustained this not a damn thing will change. So what if the government lies to the people, they clearly want to be lied to. Over 2000 years ago another person saw the same drama unfolding and said 'The more they drink, they more they thirst'. Today I see my countrymen drinking so deeply that I fear the only solution is to let them drown.