US government Options

[Respudious]

How many of you feel like you are highly educated on our government? Do you feel like imperialism has dominated the inner-workings of our government and it is the interest of top corporations that reign supreme over the interests of the people nowadays? What are your feelings on the Wolfowitz Doctrine? I'm sorry for all the questions but recently I have devoted time to trying to uncover the other side of our war policies and it's startled me. I feel like our nation has been misled greatly by the inentions of our government. I saw in another post that someone said only 28 civilians were killed so far this year or something like that? Fallujah was a massacre!! Soldiers were told any person walking was an enemy target, and this is from the first hand testimony of a soldier himself. Don't take this as an anti-american rant because I love our country, yet I feel there are flaws within our country, mainly foreign policies. 9/11 was a pain inflicted by our own country! If you are offended by this I'm sorry, but all the facts point to this conclusion. What are your feelings on the government, and how did you reach these feelings?

well I hope I didn't scare away any potential debaters if this is a subject over your heads, or hopefully you debaters are just gathering up your ammo by doing research which I encourage, because this is not a subject to come mis-informed on.

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This post has been edited by Smoogrish: Apr 13 2006, 07:14 PM

[innovation]

so, a few sentences explaining what you love about this country would satisfy my curiousity.

^ Our government, although flawed, allows for far more freedom and a far more open society than a large majority of nations.

and i think that the US government's history of bullying and attempting to control the world is most definitely to blame for what happened on 9/11.

Well, the closed society in which the terrorists lived also deserves a large chunk of the blame.

Also, while I do not believe that the U.S. government should be imperialistic, the U.S. should definitely not be passive either. We need to intervene where intervention is necessary, and we need to collaborate effectively, both bilaterally and multilaterally, in order to ensure the success of that intervention.