Manifesto on Imperalism

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With recent blows for not helping save the Sudanese people from genocide, The U.S. has been on thin ice with the humanitarian Fairy. We all have imperalistic views, we look down on those third world countries. We laugh at the poor, and that's what makes us feel better about ourselves in the morning. At the end of the day, they will be the the " other''. Girgio Agamben wrote about that. He wrote that we become secure when we realize other people are suffering. That, when we are high, they are low. And that's what makes us better then those people. We have no names to the faces of the Iraqi civilian that are killed. We dont ...

... debating the merits of American intervention in these conflicts. From the left, we hear that US military action just worsens the problem, pulling us further into a cycle of violence. How can we hope to fight oppression and violence with more killing? The conservative view tells us that it's our duty to use American military power to stop this oppression, and that some deaths are justified to stop the slaughter of innocents. Is spreading democracy worth killing American youth. Which is why if we train these children we can have a better future and a stronger democracy. But what if teaching the children won't work? What if they just can not escape the imperalistic mindsets

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