I'll be your huckleberry. Yes, WE the United States have committed violence and "imhumane" or "unethical" actions against other nations and peoples. Does that make you feel better? I am going to guess by all your posts and knowledge of events in Asia, that you are Asian. Please tell me if I am wrong. From which Asian nation I do not know, but from your extensive knowledge of transgressions against the Japanese by Americans, that you are said of Japanese origin. Yes, I am flat out asking your nation of origin. You seem to have no issue calling out the US, for the things we have done, yet you neglect that Japan committed some of the worst atrocities in the modern age. *cough* Nanking *cough*. If you want to pull out the red card on US, you cannot over look the history of the country you are trying to defend. You brought up the Japanese interment camps. I happen to live not 1hr from one. I can tell you it is a MILLION times better than a POW camp in Burma or a concentration camp in Europe during that time. I can agree and admit that how it was done and how they were treated, despite being American's was wrong. I can admit that how my USA treats a lot of places and peoples is wrong, but I am not the one calling the shots and if I were to use my Constitutional given rights (read gun rights) to do something about it, I can tell you I wouldn't get very far unless the nation as a whole agreed with me. Which if you are completely blind, no one in this nation sees everything the same. Trust me though, I would love to clean out the garbage from our government. When our leaders have a sub 25% approval rating, something needs to change!
So did I appease you? Have I given you the warm fuzzy you have been seeking, by admitting the US is no better than some of the countries my government says is bad? When in fact it is better! You can use all the ISMs you want to call my country this or that, it will not deter me from saying the USA is the best place on earth. I have served and been to some of the **** holes we have created and I will tell you what, there are people there who thank us for what we do. There are people who realize we give them a chance. You can bring up all rapes by US GIs you want, but the majority do not. You can bring up the dictators we have installed or turned a blind eye to, but ask those people, person to person if it's better than who was there before them. Get your head out of your ideological sand box like the rest of the world and see things for what they are. There is evil out there and the only way to combat it is with evil. Collateral damage happens. Innocence dies. For every dictator killed a new one arises and every mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter.
No matter where you are from, you will thank the US for something. I am pretty sure the medium you have chosen to speak on (the internet and computer) was made possible by the very countries you are speaking against.
Have a wonderful day and I still love you, fellow human being.
No, you'll be my snuggleberry!
Sure it makes me feel a tiny bit better. Although you didn't actually say you had committed terrorism - which was what I'd really like. Inhumane and unethical still seem a little weak, compared to just saying terrorism, since that's what it is and was, a lot of the time. Which I presume most americans still can't actually admit, because it appears no one ever tells them. In american culture, the us is always the good guy and either never does something bad or only does so because it's an accident or "we had to", for a greater cause. Which is false. But thanks to the wonderful workings of the media, people don't get those perspectives. Likewise, if one critiques the us, many will just reply with "ur juz jealous" and then continue chanting "usa! usa!" lol.
I don't have an issue calling out the US, because unlike Japan, the US is still causing huge problems in the world and then blaming others for it. While Japan doesn't quite do so. It doesn't have a blue water Navy for example, so it can't harass countries on the other side of the earth and then claim it's just protecting international law - like you-know-who. Although of course Japan routinely pisses off Asian neighbors precisely because it doesn't [properly] own up to the evils which you [correctly] mentioned that it has carried out. Besides that, there's some small island disputes with China and Russia. But otherwise Japanese society is pretty damned evolved and they don't interfere in the way the us does. Hence they don't deserve neither as much blame nor focus.
Yea, the POW camps might be fine - but the point was exactly as you alluded to, that all those "precious rights" didn't mean a thing, when it really mattered.
You're also absolutely right the filth needs to be cleaned out, but that people need to agree with you first. But therein lies the problem: most americans don't seem to know what the hell their government is doing half the time and even when they do, it's sold as if it's a good thing. Reality is routinely distorted in very clever ways. For instance, american journalists can, completely without irony, lambaste Russia for hacking the US election, even when there's apparently no hard evidence and even when the US has frequently overthrown democratic governments. Not "hacked". But actually overthrown, with violence, death and destruction - for no reason, beyond "power". But no one mentions that. In the same vein, US leaders have no troubles telling countries like China not to be aggressive or not to hack, when it's the US who runs the NSA and had the Snowden leaks, as well as runs warships through Chinese-claimed waters lmao. Or how the US can seriously tell the media that they're a stabilizing force in this whole South China Sea dispute and then place THAAD anti-missile systems in South Korea; directly affecting China. It's just crazy. But if you've been brought up on a steady diet of "Communism is bad", "Russia is bad", "China is bad", "Iran is bad" and "look at these terrorists, they're bad", then you're probably going to support it.
You can keep saying the US is the best place on earth. I have no interest in prohibiting your freedom of speech. After all, it's wrong anyway on most metrics lol. But if it's a good enough place for you, then good for you, I hope you live a long, prosperous and happy life with your friends and family. Just don't go telling other countries you're so good or that you're a "beacon of hope" or that your democracy is somehow a landmark achievement or something, because that's complete BS.
I'm sure you can find plenty people who will say what you've done in, say the ME, is good. Congrats. Because the millions of others who got killed, also thanks to what you did, might say otherwise. But who speaks for them? The dead? Few. So maybe that's confirmation bias - at least to some extent. Yes, collateral damage happens and innocents die - but that's because of yer drone strikes on weddings and funerals eh and other unnecessary things. Fact is, if good people like you, could somehow stop your government doing stupid ****, you wouldn't have half the problems you have now. But as Dr.Phil says, first you have to admit there's a problem
. But how? Your media lies to you at least half the time and people feel powerless - if the low voter turnouts are anything to go by. Despite, as you said, crazily unpopular leaders.
Did a marine (or what branch are you?) just say he loves me? Hahahaha, see now that is more impressive than a lot of things.
We should be thanking the Chinese and British, for the industrial revolution and things like paper firstly
. In the end, we're all pushing humanity forward. But ultimately, it would be nice if we could have much more REAL democracy in doing so. Switzerland has an interesting model...
Happy New Year bro