Overthrowing oppressive regimes by military force

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It's all rhetoric to justify in our own minds what we wished to do since John Foster Dulles was secretary of state.

And the rhetorics are probably the biggest biggest gap between the continents. With American politics everything is a war. On drugs, on poverty (I think, this was copyright LBJ), on terror, on whatever. You couldn't hope to gain office by calling anything a war anywhere else in the world. I always tend to think, war is something like John Wayne riding into the sunset, for all too many Americans. The civilians haven't faced the consequences for over a 150 years by now, since Sherman marched through the old South.