Do you believe America is a war mongering nation?

I think you make a significant point...how can our country be founded on 'democratic ideals' of free trade and political equality, and our national leaders continue to squander our economic resources in the name of 'justice? It bothers me that President Bush refuses to speak bluntly with American citizens about his true intentions for militaristic engagement with many countries abroad (i.e. iraq, iran, north korea)...I need to hear realistic solutions, not self-deprecating rhetoric.. good question

How many countries in the last 20 years have attacked oher countries. How many nations does China have its soldiers based in. Who has Iran attacked.

How many has the United States governments overthrown.

How many countries does the Soviet Union have bases in.

What is the Helvey doctrine, what sdoies Assynmetrical wrfare agaisnt a antion have to do with ur foeign policy and sate dfep[artment?

Anyone who says the US has been living in peace does not know a damn thing about nations political policys. All they know is while they were siting on their a@@ they did not care to look or take the time to get off that A@@ to inquire.

A nation with military bases in over 130 other counties and total over 700 bases is a peacefull country.

No country the US is in within Latin America has known peace for the last twenty years and many last 75 years.

These are the ones who wave flags and don't know why the hell we are goingt to war and just bend over to whatever they are told to bend over for.

They are the ones who never question why anyone would want to blow towers up and accepts "oh they just don't like being free" and sends others to war.

The ones who believe only a few crazy americans are torturing prisoners.

The ones who believe Saddams Iraq was cause for towers fall and that we found WMDs in Iraq is the Gods truth.

The US has waged a complete Low Intensity Conflict against over 50 nations since 1951 and even Eisenhower was part of it.

They are the ones who do not read history but parrot what others tell them to parrot.

No and I'm sick of people always blaming the whole country for what a small group of people, in this case Congress, does.

George Bush and his cronies are not America and do not speak for everyone in it. If these terrorists want to claim retaliation, let it be against him and the rest of the people who actually started the war in the first place, not the average guy on the street who had no say in the matter and is just trying to live day to day.

we have the mass miltary to supposedly scare other countries out of doing anything to us and i'd say we not a war mongering nation anymore than the next guy cept canada and thier wussies but this president of ours is a total war monger remeber when he said i'll be remebered as "the war" president and how he's the decider and we won but the jobs not done..blah blah blah.... i really feel all wars we've been in are just cept the other time we went to the middle eat in the 80's and veitnam other than those i feel all wars where just..

not need nessarily but justified

Take a look at the back of a $1 bill. There are 2 circles depicting the Great Seal. The circle on the right features an eagle holding an olive branch in one talon and a clutch of arrows in the other. The olive branch represents our desire for peace and the eagle is facing toward it. The arrows represent our readiness to exercise our military strength when necessary (all diplomatic efforts exhausted).

Consider the current situation in North Korea and in Iran. Both of those countries pose strong threats to the US and their regions. Yet, North Korea is presently resolving and Iran is beginning the process following peaceful efforts.

War is a way of life...Wars are fought to bring on peace, in a situation the threatens it. There will always be wars and always wars for peace..That is the price of peace and freedom. We are the ones that ante up.

Peace requires war.

Every country has a military proportional to what they can support, and we have a lot of capability. There's nothing wrong with having a large military. We have not been in war non-stop since we were founded, we've spent less time in wars than in peace-time. I don't know where you got that statistic.

No --- rightly or wrongly, we ARE a nation bent on ensuring

that the world provides freedom to it's various peoples (as

we Americans view freedom). The world will always be at

war for one reason or another until Argomendam (sp?)

when we defend were wrong when we ignore were wrong......what the hell do you what us to do? "lets not get involved unless they attack us......world war 1&2 happen! lets stop over hostile nations so they do not cause wide spread devastation and death........iraq&vietnam. people yes we are usually at war but it is because no one is ever happen in america and like to change the rules and morals of our nation and creating new rules of engagement. we liberate, free, and give them thier own government they STILL hate us! we give aid with no expectation to be repaid in anyway shape or form yet we still help foreign nations.