When the Cold War started, the two main superpowers, the Soviet Union and the U.S., had opposing viewpoints on the entire world. It is safe to make the argument that the Soviets supported Communist States while the U.S. put all of its support behind Democratic States. Specific examples I will get into later... However, the Cold War is all of 20 years behind us, and the U.S. still maintains the same mentality as during the Cold War. The Soviets do not exist anymore but we still implore the same tactics based on democracy as before. It is my claim that the U.S. wants world democracy and it will stop at nothing short to achieve so.
The Soviet Union, through the Warsaw Pact, created a strong Eastern Block of communist countries loyal to it. In addition to grabbing East Germany, and East Berlin, this is how the U.S.S.R. started its Communist domination. The U.S. throughout the years then held responses in Korea for example where it supported the democratic South Korea, while the Soviets supported the communist North Korea. Another incident was in the Vietnam War. Again, the U.S. supported the democratic South, while the Soviets supported the communist North. In these two cases the communist North both won. However, later on we get to Cuba, where the Soviets supported Cuba and all its actions because it was communist. The U.S. condemns Cuba as a Communist State to this day. Tensions have arose over this. Then we get to Afghanistan. The Soviets invade Afghanistan in an attempt to promote communism there. The U.S. responds by arming the Taliban resistance forces with weaponry. The Taliban prevail, communist dies out, right? Yes, but now the Taliban is killing our soldiers in Afghanistan causing more problems. All of this because of our angst for democracy.
Through these examples during just the Cold War alone, we see that communism always seems to find a way to bite us in the ass. This just makes us want democracy even more. The Cold War ended, and what do we do? We go after more democracy. We go into Iraq to take down a dictatorship and put into place what we want as a democracy. We continue our combat in Afghanistan to go after the forces that we helped arm against the Soviets. We try to undo all the harm that we have already caused in this world, but unfortunately I do not see much good coming from that so far. People say that we must learn from our history but this is completely false. We continue to repeat history, by making the same mistake after mistake and putting ourselves into a deeper hole. No one learns from history. History is just always repeated. This is what leads up to today.
Today there are multiple revolutionary movements in the Middle East and Africa. These revolutions are all trying to overcome a dictatorship and implement a new government, that of a democracy. When hearing this it is an invitation for the U.S. to become involved. But at first the United States balks. There is no response and a neutral position is taken. But time takes over and the U.S. must respond and it does so with a firm stance on democracy. Again. Going after democracy is nothing new for the U.S., it just continues on its old ways. Therefore we are only left to think what is next for the U.S. in this situation in the Middle East. Obviously it will have to do with democracy, but to what extent? Who knows.
It is such a privileged to live in a democratic place such as the U.S. It harms me to think about these places not as fortunate as ours. But what problems me even more is the question that arises due to this. Are not some of these countries better off without our democratic intervention? I do not understand why we as the U.S. go to foreign places, and impose our influences. Some countries are better off without our democracy, and I ask for the name of one country that received our democratic help successfully, without conflict. I hear no answer. This is because whenever we go in with democracy, we come out with more harm then good. This is what I cannot conceive. It irritates me what the U.S. does, and it irritates me more that there is nothing that I can do about it. That is how our democracy works.
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