America is the worlds policeman today, why do so many of us criticise their help? (189)

You could be right. But money was no object to overcome the North. If China, Russia and North Korea wouldn't have told the U.S. to get out of South Vietnam a declaration of a world war was to be declared toward the U.S.

Thank you Ttom, and let's remember that only Finland ever paid off it's debts to the U.S.-In 1976.

With all due respect to your service, you've lost your mind.

that was also the comments I heard in Iraq from former Vietnam vets. IN fact coming from NZ & having trained under NZ vets in the army first thing we saw when we hit Iraq was all the same mistakes. Colin Powell saw the simularities & that is why he had his mate from there take over. He was kicked out quick & someone with a degree & was an analyst took over. knew nothing about the what was really needed to be done. they lost it there.

I see our friend from Taiwan says US not an empire. he is wrong but they have controlled it differently through economic power. that is now transferring to the IMF & China. How are people going to control China when it is the worlds policeman?

teaching history does not mean you understand it.

As I say quite powereful Americans are referring this as the collapse of the US Empire. we study history but we don't study financial history. what is happening now happened to the Roman empire but at a much slower pace. same mistakes.

Kia Ora BebeII & Fathom,

NO one is saying US is all bad but the US need to look at what they do. Rob does know what he is talking about.

there is comment that everyone asks US to step in. actually most of the time that is not true but they do draw a parrallel when their is oil involved but won't when it is humanitarian. there has being some changes to that over the last few years.

someone said well why did your govts always ask ours for help not to go do our own thing.

well ours did in regards to Nuclear weapons & powered ships.

NOw this will surpise many NZ's & others today but it wasn't that popular but new government & they felt they had being elected on that stand.

Now we are supposedly a democratic country, but once our government said no more nukes. The US threw its toys out of the cot & said "you will take our ships or else!" & we have being punished since over trade etc even though we have contributed troops to many joint actions.

That though was when the country went 'anti' US as we have a national trait. we don't like being told what to do(try being a cop or security as I am & tell people to conform, usually ends up in a punch up) & that is US problem. they say have freedom of choice but when countries do & the US doesn't like it then watch out.

Same has happened in Palestine. OK Hamas is not the best going but the US & Isreal basically entrenched their place in middleeast because it was all democracy until Hamas won the election. then it was oh no. you can't have it both ways.

If both had let Hamas do it they might of either being surprised at what they achieved or Hamas would of more likely failed & become non consequential.

The least free press I have ever seen was when I was in the US. it is totally manipulated & what happens outside the US unless they are involved just didn't happen. When I visited my reltions there (US born & bred) they said the same but then they have lived outside the US.

I see the same starting to happen here in NZ. silly little local things instead of world events & I mean silly.

best thing to see your own country is to leave it & live outside for a while. you come back to all the things that are good about it, but you also see what you couldn't see before.

it is not that everyone hates the US but it needs to learn from others mistakes before it repeats them.

Born and raised in the US; I'm actually in the US military at that. But I'd be lying if I said I didn't wonder about our government's motives sometimes. I don't think we're as wholesome as what is portrayed.

By the way, regarding your question ie 'policeman' -- who's the cop and who's the robber?

I see your from Peru, unless you have nothing to give we wont INVADE, any spare oil? When we say jump you say 'how high'

Apparently it's called the constitution, ie right to bear arms but then again thats debatable because under American law that constitutes protection against ones civil rights "PROTECTION", I didn't realize America included amongst their 'so called freedom of speech' the right to INVADE SOVERIGN NATIONS against its own constitutional rights. Properganda says GET REAL

Wow, and I thought Pinochet was leader of Chile. Thanks for correcting my mistaken history.