Not a rant, just a statement of facts (?)
Since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the US (to whom even we Irish are THEM) has sent forces
(from dozens to hundreds of thousands of 'service personnel') openly into at least 10 different countries (including tiny islands) across the world.
America has 'military missions', often with 'sovereign' (i.e. beyond the
law of the country they are in) 'facilities' (bases for rockets,
missiles, drones, interrogation etc), in over 100 countries - China in none, not even in North Korea.
At least 10 other countries have had more-or-less secret military interventions
to instigate, support, or counter coups d'état.
The US has also funded and trained 'insurgents' all over the world.
China, on the other hand, has merely trained insurgents from some of its neighbours (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia). It has not invaded any neighbouring country other than Tibet (which Britain once hoped to annexe along with Afghanistan). Its inevitable annexation of Tibet continues to raise American outcry.
And so, by the common process known to psychologists as projection, the voters of the US (world's largest manufacturer of means-of-murder and pornography) not only hate China, but are afraid of her, too. Another reason, of course, is that the Union is founded on the need for a Big Enemy -
and really needs a Big Enema.
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Please take a look at Morris Berman's blog, Dark Ages America. He has written a few books on the inherent problems in American "culture," including the primacy of hustling and violence.
He has moved to Mexico, and I would like to join him.
Berman's blog is at:
http://morrisberman.blogspot.com/
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