Something that keeps bugging me, especially after 9-11 happened, is that almost all Democrats and liberals almost always have exact same imperialist foreign policy as the Republicans. They say that they are not as terrible as the Republicans, that they are for peace and liberty and freedom. But when it comes to the actual practice, the only difference seems to be that liberals say that they are sad when they drop the bombs on brown and black people in the Middle East, Africa, or South America. Let us review the facts:
Where did the anti-war left go? I know there was a sizeable amount back in the 70's against the Vietnam war. There was also a lot of protests against the Iraq war, at least by the citizens themselves back in 2003 I recall. Yet they all kind of disappeared when Obama got to be president despite US occupation and military remaining the same. Are there actually any anti-war movements left in the US?
- In 2015, the US has over 800 bases across the globe. From Politico:
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- The US feels entitled to occupy and invade other sovereign nations. Imagine the outrage if any other country had stationed military bases on US soil. Or if any other country had that amount of bases across the world?
- The US and its citizens see nothing wrong with drone-striking and thereby killing non-Americans without any consequence
- The US military spending is up to 643.3 billion dollars in 2019! That's over half of the rest of the world combined!
- The US military emits more greenhouse gases than most countries, and that is not even factored into the political deals to curb climate change. It has a massive hidden impact on climate
- The CIA still runs foreign prisons across the world to "extract information" (torture) from "terrorists"
- The US has a long history of bombing, invading, overthrowing democratically elected leaders, and straight up committing genocide. Somehow this is always forgotten whenever the next Axes Of Evil nation shows up in the media and Americans feel they are entitled to "do something" (also known as sending in arms and money to insurgents to fuel conflict and war). Millions of people have died, societies ruined, and fascists given power thanks to US "intervention".
- The US has been using economic sanctions and military threats against Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Syria, Libya, for years and decades and it even admits it is at war with seven countries at once. Any other country that wants to break free from the economic dominance by the US are met with hostility, sanctions, and ultimately destabilization, threats, and war.
- Lots of Democrats think that war criminals like George Bush Sr. and Jr. are decent folk and not the war criminals they actually are
- One of the leading "progressive" Democrats, Elizabeth Warren, has voted for increasing the already bloated military budget and has argued to make the US foreign forces "green", co-sponsored the United States–Israel Strategic Partnership Act and said Israel has "a right to defend itself" when bombing Palestinians. There is a long list of the ways she supports US imperialism. Yet many liberals think she is more than an acceptable candidate? Similar criticisms can be leveled against the leftist Bernie Sanders who, although relatively better, still adopts what is known as a form of social democratic imperialism.
Where did the anti-war left go? I know there was a sizeable amount back in the 70's against the Vietnam war. There was also a lot of protests against the Iraq war, at least by the citizens themselves back in 2003 I recall. Yet they all kind of disappeared when Obama got to be president despite US occupation and military remaining the same. Are there actually any anti-war movements left in the US?
