Quote Originally Posted by psychocat
I believe that a lot of the problems we face today are the result of an aggressive commercially driven foreign policy, the manipulation of third world countries has come back to bite us in the arse.
there is and always will be plenty of blame to pass around. the excesses of a colonial mentality gave way to a general free for all, which in turn gave way to the pointless excesses of the cold war mentality and, finally, to the barely controlled universal rage we see about us today. it is so easy to place the blame on the big dogs and claim that they deserve to be punished for their transgressions. there are far too many folks that are willing to overlook the sins of the underdog and make excuses for the sake of some sort of fairness. well folks, there is no fairness in the world. if there were, the west might be repaid for the trillions of dollars in aid it has sent to every corner of the world. instead we are spit on and abused as though our every action were an affront to the better natures of humanity. every misstep is magnified, shouted from the highest mountaintops, and every act of charity is downplayed, as though it were all some debt to be repaid to the world.

i'm sure there are many who would like to see every advantage passed by or given away to the less fortunate, but that just ain't gonna happen. it is not in the nature of mankind's ruling bodies to freely hand over their hard won control. the question becomes, who would you rather see handling the reigns of that power? as each of the numerous factions struggle to spread their ideology to the world around them, would you rather see the powers of totalitarian control or those of individual self-determination taking the lead? if you would vote for the former, pat yourself on the back. they seem to be winning and it ain't who you seem so willing to blame.