DanJohnson 0 #1 July 15, 2011 So what is your opinion? I believe that the propagandists have many believing that our foreign policy is always based on some altruistic goal ie "To spread Democracy", "to save them from this murderous dictator", etc. I believe that US foreign policy in reality is about profit for the corporations which run the US. What do you think? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SimonBones 1 #2 July 15, 2011 "Furthermore, we have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3 of its population. This disparity is particularly great as between ourselves and the peoples of Asia. In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships, which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and daydreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world benefaction... In the face of this situation we would be better off to dispense now with a number of the concepts which have underlined our thinking with regard to the Far East. We should dispense with the aspiration to 'be liked' or to be regarded as the repository of a high-minded international altruism. We should stop putting ourselves in the position of being our brothers' keeper and refrain from offering moral and ideological advice. We should cease to talk about vague — and for the Far East — unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are hampered by idealistic slogans, the better." —George F. Kennan, Policy Planning Study 23 (PPS23), Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS), 1948 Same guy: "A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live."108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,120 #3 July 15, 2011 It is, of course, about both. Politicians want to be re-elected and so they want to do things that both garner popular support (i.e. "spread democracy" or whatever) and that benefit people who will contribute to them. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
loumeinhart 0 #4 July 15, 2011 QuoteI believe that US foreign policy in reality is about profit for the corporations which run the US. Ok. I'm with you so far.. name one of the corporations that run the US. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
loumeinhart 0 #5 July 15, 2011 QuoteThis disparity is particularly great as between ourselves and the peoples of Asia. In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships, which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and daydreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world benefaction... A live human being wrote this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
