Islamic terrorism the new Soviet Union, how empires invent enemies

I legitimately can't tell if this is serious or not. From what you're saying, you actually seem to care about people that are fighting a proxy war. Make no mistake: Those people do not matter on any level. They are unfortunate expenditures of munitions that should have been aimed at those foolish enough to oppose our will. Under the circumstances, I'm going to have to do nothing but laugh at you over your superpower hate. You have no moral justification, so you just toxically spew hate for business as usual. Here's the thing. The more vassals we have, the better off we are, and we're not too picky as to how they're run, provided they're ours. If you think bin Laden and Co. being supplied with American arms is bad, well, allow me to retort. "War makes for strange bedfellows." and "The lesser of two evils." are two concepts you would do well to understand should you ever go into politics. Not everyone can be as upstanding as the good ol' USA, which means we need those people in the dirt to do some dirty work for us. Hey, the Soviets did it in the Korean and Vietnam wars. Allow me to put this in perspective. You did not grow up in the Soviet era, where a brutal, repressive, and well-armed regime posed a credible threat to the free world. You have grown up in a First World nation with access to excellent medical facilities and decent food. When's the last time your parents told you "No", for example? What if I told you that this was the plan all along? Every Muslim killed by their brother Muslims in that region is one less Muslim screaming "ALLAHU AKBAR!" and thinking they're so awesome when they kill some unarmed people in the name of their bad fanfiction of God. You are outright ignoring the barbarian cultures of literally everyone else in favor of your degenerate narrative of the Big Bad USA coming to rule the world. Have you ever considered the possibility that if everyone else just fell into line and let us rule, the world would be so much better? The United States is the single best empire builder in the world, and we outright OWN the Western Hemisphere. In short, your arguments seem to revolve around "Boohoohoo, Western Civilization killed people, Western civilization is evil, Boohoohoo, living in a First World country with freedom of speech and the ability to express myself freely is so oppressive! Boohoohoo, the people responsible for keeping me safe are killing foreigners who are harboring people who want to cut my head off and film it, and I am outraged! Boohoohoo, people are not exactly nice to each other at times and I'm only going to dredge up Caligula and Ceasar and completely forget people like Shaka, Attila, and Dschingis Khan existed. Boohoohoo!" Seriously, we know of the great psychos of Western Civilization because we could record them, compared to the people who had no written language. But, seeing as you seem to think America is just toxic because it has to deal with unsavory types, there's no helping you. The world is not black and white. And, to answer your questions, in order. 1) The USA funded the mujadeen to fight a proxy war with the USSR, setting nasty against nasty, but to make their nasties do damage, they outfitted it. Pinochet and Co. would do as they were told by the USA, and keep the Communist threat away from OUR sphere of influence. Again, this was completely justified seeing as the USSR was lusting after our wide tracts of land. 2) Foreign policy. The USA wants to have a pro-America situation in the Middle East, and Saddam and Gadaffi started to act against American interests. Good-bye. Again, the US wants well-behaved client states so we can get stuff cheaper. 3) See 1. ISIS is now mostly a Russian problem anyway, so it's now RUSSIA that would be pulling the atrocities. America is only there in a supporting role. Oh, also, the US also supplied a more legitimate government in Syria... whose forces retreated leaving a pile of armored vehicles for ISIS to just pick up the keys for, so that American military hardware you tout as proof of America's evil is just as likely to have been stolen. Come back when you have proof that America is actually a genocidal tyranny dedicated to ruthlessly crushing its citizens needing a foreign body as an excuse, because we have plenty of people who hate NATO. Now, about the whole Roman lootage of them Greeks, have you ever considered that Rome saw something good and took it for itself? Gladiatorial games still happen in non-Western parts of the world, so that line can be dismissed, I've heard good things about Trajan (he cared about the little guy), and so I can safely say you are an idiot, under the conditions you yourself have provided. I love how you accuse me of idiocy or ignorance even as you completely ignore the warrior cultures of Africa where genocides are routine even today. Also, I love how you're juxtaposing the Roman Empire of 2000 years ago with society today, with all its fine things made possible through its efforts. Here, let me help you with those goalposts, your intellect appears to be struggling to move them. At the end of the day, I'm stuck debating a liberal seditious pansy who seems to think that Western civilization is soooo toxic despite him being in serious danger of being put to death were he to speak out against the status quo literally anywhere else. He should be on his hands and knees thanking our guys for stopping the real monsters even as he rants and raves and waves his arms and completely disregards the genocides perpetrated by non-Westerners routinely because those don't fit into his narrative of America being the Great Satan. If America saying "America first" is noxious, then America is absolutely noxious and fits right in, because every nation in existence that wants to succeed is looking out for themselves first. We just happen to hold the moral high ground because we're awesome and are living proof that there's nothing people won't do to get out of paying taxes, which are the true great evil of the world. #KosovoJeSrbija