Oh, my yes...
There's always a "bad guy". I forgot to mention that along with the buzzwords of the day. Thanks for reminding me to include that in my previous post illumination..
You know...
There's people getting slaughtered all the time by bad guys. It's just that the US really only gets huffy about the ones who try to take back control of their own natural resources...like with Vietnam and Iraq.
Sierra Leone in Africa, for instance, is experiencing ongoing horrific killings against its citizenry at the hands of gangs of thugs. Why aren't we there? No tea or rubber plantations. No oil.
Where were/are we? Conspicuously absent..
If we put diamonds in our gas tanks, we'd be up to our eyebrows in Sierra Leone. But we don't, so we're not. Diamonds are an extravagance...one that the US public would not be able to be duped into getting behind for blood.
Rubber or oil for our cars and industry...those are a bit more dear to our "necessities"..so yeah, we select our "bad guys" dependant on what resource they're trying to keep us from.
Plenty of "bad guy" fodder in Sierra Leone though to justify any "mandatory" US Military occupation though eh Andy?
