Foreign Policy sucks

A good friend of mine, we'll call him...Elvis, immigrated to America from a Latin American country. He was one of the people who got me into soccer, having moves and control like I've never seen.

It took awhile for Elvis to open up to me. Most people do it sooner because although a meathead, I am a genuinely nice, caring person when it comes to one on one conversations. When he did, he unleashed horrors like nothing I ever experienced.

His birth nation was in the middle of a revolution. During a revolution in many Banana Republics, if the revolutionaries think you are helping the government, they'll kill you. If the government thinks you're helping the revolutionaries, they'll kill you. So the best thing to do is bury your head in the sand and pop up every once in awhile for air, food, and water.

The revolutionaries would start with good intentions. They'd say "the government has done this, this, and this to the people, and therefore we must overthrow them." Wonderful, where do I sign up? So you grab your rifle, give it a good cleaning, and join the revolutionaries. They take over and just like Orwell's Animal Farm, they become just as bad as the people you helped overthrow.

His father owned a store. One day, the revolutionaries came in wanting supplies and bought a bunch of crap. He had the choice, turn them away and get shot, or sell them supplies and pray the government doesn't find out. Well, the government found out and they shot him for helping the revolutionaries.

Elvis not only lost his father, he lost his next-door neighbor (whom he was very close to) and several other close friends. Luckily for him though, he was born with a high I.Q. and with his education, he got an opening in a large U.S. corporation and became an American.

Elvis is now married to a beautiful woman, has lovely kids, and makes a lot of money. He smiles all the time and seems happy, but I know it still bothers him.

The U.S. took a side in this war. We took a side because the Soviets took the other side. For the record, both were the bad guys. Needless to say, we picked the side that hated communism. We didn't care if they were fascists, as long as they hated communism. The Soviets didn't care if the side they took rounded up property owners and shot them in the head, as long as they hated capitalism.

So since neither us nor the Soviets wanted to have an all-out nuclear war, we played out our little war games in Banana Republics. We had the policy of Containment. That's what brought us into Korea and Vietnam, and a bunch of other little wars that I doubt most people in the world know about. I didn't even know of all of them until recently. I'm sure there are at least one or two that I still don't know about.

That said, foreign policy sucks. It's d*mned if you do, d*mned if you don't. While people complain endlessly about how Americans are a bunch of bullies, they have no idea how bad it would be if the communists took over everywhere.

Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao. These guys butchered millions. Pol Pot killed everyone with glasses because that showed they may be intelligent. Everyone with an education, dead. By the time the killing fields were over, one quarter of Cambodia's population's bones bleached white in the sun.

Stalin killed between 19 and 27 million. He alone decided who the enemy of the revolution was. One day, you're enjoying a good bottle of vodka with your Communist comrades. The next day, you have wet canvas
wrapped around you. When the canvas dries, it constricts and you slowly die as the canvas crushes your ribs and your organs. It's supposebly quite painful.

And Mao...during the Cultural Revolution, they worked themselves into such a frenzy that they killed and ate over 270 enemies of the revolution. During Mao's reign, between 10 and 55 million Chinese people were killed by their own government. That's communism for you.

So maybe America should just give up. Let the world kill each other. If we go in to try to prevent it, we're the bad guys. I was against the Iraq War Part II for this very reason. Sure Hussein killed tens of thousands of people, committed genocide, and his sons raped random women that they found attractive, but if America goes in, we'll be the bad guys to the rest of world, so as cold as this sounds, screw them. I'm tired of losing American lives, I'm tired of my tax money going to help everyone but me, and I'm tired of being seen as a bully to everyone else in the world. I'm also tired of ungrateful foreigners, but you already know that.