Don't repeat Vietnam in Afghanistan Pt.2

knight2102:

You're not out of place at all. Politics are often too complicated for discussion in 500 characters or less. The governments of the world have interests that often are antagonistic to the needs of their own citizens.

I've been hearing about American atrocities for so long I'm just sick of the whole mess. I can't imagine how things would be here in Canada if the US were messing with my country the way they mess with yours.

That's just the way superpowers conduct themselves.

It's also because the US wants to keep access and preferential economic arrangements throughout the world, access to resources and markets ect. It's about empire, the contractors want to keep that going, but without some economic benefits arising out of our conflicts, the wealthy of the US who aren't defense contractors would makes sure it got shut down. Vietnam was about land reform, foreign owners being uprooted by popular revolt. a crime an empire cannot tolerate.

The Vietnamese had actually taken their country back from the Japanese at the end of WWII, and actually thought that this gave them the right to run their own country - until the French, with US backing, decided to come back and take their old colony back.

silly of them to think their country was theirs lol.

You are wrong. I think you will find he does understand perfectly.