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<blockquote data-quote="inactive" data-source="post: 1897817" data-attributes="member: 7488"><p>Stick around here a bit, and you're see that many here think it actually, literally was our doing.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't think it's our fault, but I think we frequently give people reasons to dislike us. Think on a more micro level, like a self defense scenario. First, you avoid dangerous situations. Secondly, you mitigate your risk if you have to go places that could be dangerous (i.e. you go during daylight hours). Thirdly, you try to deescalate conflict if it begins to occurs (if you bump shoulders in passing with someone, you can politely apologize rather than swearing at them). But if you immediately threatened, you engage and you finish.</p><p></p><p>Our diplomatic mission is to put as many fingers as we can into as many pots as we can, do it at times where the countries are very volatile, with a rhetoric and bravado that is insulting and provoking to other nations, and then we don't finish the job when attacked but rather we drag out the conflict to become some convoluted affair with no clear goal and no exit strategy.</p><p></p><p>The US Foreign Policy is like a macro-level example of all those self defense fail scenarios we're all so critical of here on the forum.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="inactive, post: 1897817, member: 7488"] Stick around here a bit, and you're see that many here think it actually, literally was our doing. I don't think it's our fault, but I think we frequently give people reasons to dislike us. Think on a more micro level, like a self defense scenario. First, you avoid dangerous situations. Secondly, you mitigate your risk if you have to go places that could be dangerous (i.e. you go during daylight hours). Thirdly, you try to deescalate conflict if it begins to occurs (if you bump shoulders in passing with someone, you can politely apologize rather than swearing at them). But if you immediately threatened, you engage and you finish. Our diplomatic mission is to put as many fingers as we can into as many pots as we can, do it at times where the countries are very volatile, with a rhetoric and bravado that is insulting and provoking to other nations, and then we don't finish the job when attacked but rather we drag out the conflict to become some convoluted affair with no clear goal and no exit strategy. The US Foreign Policy is like a macro-level example of all those self defense fail scenarios we're all so critical of here on the forum. [/QUOTE]
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