In my recent article, "Human Beings Aren't Pawns," I pondered several questions:
If the neocons were genuine about their compassion concerning basic human rights and an open democracy, where are they now? Why are they not pressuring President Obama to extend support to the red shirts in Bangkok? Why did they limit their support to the Iranian Green Movement?
The basic gist of the article is that, while claiming to be interested in the basic human rights of the Iranian people, neoconservatives saw them as mere pawns in order to fulfill their desires for regime change.
Doug Bandow, in his article at the National Interest, writes critically of US military intervention:
It’s time to reverse the presumption of U.S. policy. Rather than assume American involvement in other nations’ conflicts, Washington should plan to keep out. Rather than position U.S. military personnel to intervene promiscuously half a world away, America should redeploy its military to defend the United States.
Americans will long remain active in East Asia. But U.S. interests do not require military plans to intervene in local strife, whether within or among nations. Thailand demonstrates how the region’s most likely problems lie well beyond America’s control.
US policymakers should heed his advice.
We will have a Great Depression if and only if this monetary policy becomes no longer effective (that is, people lose confidence in the dollar and there is hyperinflation) and there is government intervention, or if the Federal Reserve decides to freeze monetary expansion and there is government intervention (which will probably lead to another bout of monetary expansionism anyways). This leads me to believe that over the long-run, in X amount of years, the dollar will have to collapse. Hp Envy 14 1110Nr & document scanner Thanks
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ather than position U.S. military personnel to intervene promiscuously half a world away
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