It's my understanding that, historically, soldiers have the most information, yet the least accurate information about what is really going on or they wouldn't do their jobs. They just get information from the rumor mill or the same sources as everybody else. Maybe that changed in the 1980s or maybe it didn't.TheDuke wrote: ↑January 18th, 2023, 12:39 pmLove it when someone who wasn't even around at the time and surely wasn't there reads some history on MSM or conspiraciesRus and tells someone who was there with inside information that they were wrong and duped and they know better. I suppose Luke (and some comments to Sarah) that all that MSM and other dredge up, after-the-fact is true. Lets see how much of that tells the story of Americans saving the world. No, it was "imperialist". CIA did a few stupid things but the main stream military was always aimed at standing up freedom when I was there. Now, I will admit that lately there have been things, like Bush thinking he can set up a democracy in middle east (Afgan and Iraq) where people are not ready for or worthy of making their own choices was a huge mistake. And often things didn't work out. I mean commies out flanked us in Korea, yet many LDS I know in Seattle are from the South that we saved, and in Viet Nam, same, Boeing hired thousands of VN refugees that came over the years and have been good Americans wanting freedom. We did nothing to stop Mao, we gave weapons to Stalin to stop Adolf, etc... But, while a few (like Chaney et al) made some money along the way, it was for a better world and the world is much better for American intervention.
BTW I'm happy to slap down any non-American that wants to put America down Luke at any time. Especially one that doesn't have the experience of the past few decades to even sort the truth. I gave of my health (as a disabled vet) for this very cause and did it openly and with knowledge of these issues (I was post VN) and with my eyes wide open.
This is from Wikipedia:
"In 1987, Manfred Ganschow, the head of the West German team investigating the bombing, said that there was no evidence pointing the finger at Libya, a belief which was corroborated by numerous intelligence agencies in Europe at the time, according to a BBC report."
I also remember reading about the trial at the time and they didn't allow witnesses or anything. I was America-is-perfect-100% at the time and even I thought it was shady.
The world is definitely a better place for America having been here and I agree the world is perhaps a better place for what America has done in the way of interventions (although it has left the rest of the world ripe for the picking.) I definitely don't want Russia or China to become a world hegemon. However, I don't conflate that with the idea that taking out Qaddafi was the right thing to do.