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Why not tell us what you are doing to "change our foreign policy so that we no longer mass-murder civilians for fascists"?
In my opinion, you are mis-interpreting ondelette's [and others'] words.
However, it seems that the difference in using the military, CIA, and other governmental agencies to force our will violently on people in the middle east and leaving them alone is a stark difference.- -heru-ur
That is indeed a stark difference. I haven’t read anything here advocating the former.
I am against intervention by force or threat of force in foreign policy in all matters except to defend when invaded. You?- -heru-ur
Me too.
We need to just leave, and start closing down bases and cutting off the foreign aid, while we have a choice in the matter. You might not have noticed but the US isn't doing so hot right now, someday we might have the luxury of choice.- -Chris Sinnard
Are you saying that we should do these things because the economy is in the tank?
Do you also believe that only American medicine, paid for by taxes on the poor, produces results? There was never chance that vaccines could have come into existence unless the American, paid for by the poor, medical research establishment did it?- -heru-ur
You didn’t ask me, but just in case you’re wondering, I do believe that medicine/health is advanced by people, organizations and governments around the world working together. I didn't read a comment here which made the assertion you imagine in your question.
Does your argument, like Sinnard’s, come down to money, too?
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Your post consisted of two parts.
1] We need to just leave […], and
2] The economy is in the tank.
So I thought the points were related.
I didn’t state an opinion about the effect of military spending on our economy, and your pretending that I did doesn't change that fact.