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June
30
2008
3:29 pm
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If you guess Iraq then you’d be right. Iraq is No. 5 on Foreign Policy’s Failed State Index. But Afghanistan is No. 7. Right at No. 1 is Somalia. Remember that country?

Interestingly, all three of these countries rank the highest (a 10) for the category of External Intervention. Can you guess who that external intervention power is? Yep. The U.S. of A.

Somalia was a huge disaster for the U.S. in the early 1990s. After pulling out of Somalia due to the disaster that led the international embarrassment of the United States as the one superpower in the world, the U.S. decided to put its monetary power into the Ethiopian army. The results haven’t been any better.

And of course, we know what’s happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, two more U.S. failures.

America was founded on the principle of peace and befriending every nation on earth. Now we are the most despised nation due to our overbearing policies that bully weaker states into submission and our so-called “humanitarian” efforts to save them from themselves. This is not the America that Thomas Jefferson, et. al. would be proud to. Can’t we get back to doing what it is we do best, namely, protecting our citizens’ freedoms?

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