Resolved, the West will Win the GWoT

Errm that link goes to CNN, not the poll.

I would like to see the details of that poll, not some vague allusion to a poll from an opinion site like CNN.

After decades of Japanese colonialism, Korea was in pretty bad shape. When you look at the difference between North korea and South korea, its pretty easy to see the effects of American intervention in the Korean War.

America is the most powerful force for good in teh world today. Sure its not PURE good but we god a lot more good than harm in the aggregate.

You’ve just got a better propaganda machine

There are many places the world over currently benefiting long term from judicious application of the American war machine.

Time spent learning history would be more productive than parroting dogma.

Yes, Nadir, it would be nice if you would learn some proper history and stop parroting boring, hackneyed dogma.

It’s no more a force for good than the Soviet Union was. It doesn’t matter to someone in a torture chamber if they are being tortured by good American-backed authoritarians or evil communist backed totalitarians. America is a plague upon the Earth, wantonly exploitative and destructive, promoting tyranny and injustice.

So, you wouldn’t feel the need to spend 50 years improving the human rights situation in Afghanistan if they hadn’t been tied to 9-11. Hmm, that seems, how should I put it? Here, let’s have someone else help out:

Then offer some proper evidence.