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American foreign policy, whatever it may be to an ordinary, dispassionate or much disinterested in foreign wars cannot be a perpetual penchant for bunch of rednecks and skinheads.

Long gone are those days of “might is (more) right.” right wing (Christian) fundamentalist jaded jargon.

America would be still America, “the greatest democracy in the (un)known world.”

Why Americans want foreign occupation wars to prove their point of (world) view?

Poverty, at home needs more (moral) action. economy ain’t getting any better, no matter who is responsible, president, Barack Obama or Ben Bernanke.

Don’t even think that I am responsible.

I got better things to do. Stay away from getting killed by cross (friendly) fire.

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June 7, 2012

This citizen journalism image purports to show two injured Syrian boys who survived a massacre in Mazraat al-Qubair on the outskirts of Hama, central Syria, Thursday, June 7, 2012. Photo: AP Photo/Shaam News Network, SNN

Should the U.S. intervene in cases of genocide, even if that means risking American soldiers?

Yes (54%, 35 Votes)
No (46%, 30 Votes)

Total Voters: 65

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SiDevilIam 0 minutes ago

American foreign policy, whatever it may be to an ordinary, dispassionate or much disinterested in foreign wars cannot be a perpetual penchant for bunch of rednecks and skinheads.

Long gone are those days of “might is (more) right.” right wing (Christian) fundamentalist jaded jargon.

America would be still America, “the greatest democracy in the (un)known world.”

Why Americans want foreign occupation wars to prove their point of (world) view?

Poverty, at home needs more (moral) action. economy ain’t getting any better, no matter who is responsible, president, Barack Obama or Ben Bernanke.

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Connie 22 hours ago

My initial response is, no, no way. It’s nothing but a quagmire and would be a difficult task. Then I think about the holocaust museum I attended and the images I saw. I also think about the images from Rwanda. How can we continue to turn our backs on people who are being annihilated only because of their ethnicity?

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Wanda Renee 1 day ago

With the wording I say no but intervention can be done without using American Soldiers. Intervention can be achieved using the UN (UnitedNations) – the organization is the main champion for genocide. If they ask for American troops then we give them what they need, but they will also require other nations to participate in the endeavor of stopping such an heinous crime.

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Eric Gradwohl 23 hours ago

this is a hard one, and as unpopular as this sounds, the USA should stay out of other domestic policies. As much as it sickens me to hear about an official policy of mas murder and ethnic cleansing, we must remember that when we go into another nation and bomb them in order to stop their policy, we are made to look like hypocrites, for example we bombed Serbia and Libia and is threatening military actions in Syria while we close a blind eye to the atrocities being commuted by Bahrain, Yemen and what Israel is doing to the…

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billrrrrr 1 day ago

the U.S. needs to stay home and take care of it’s own people, haven’t we learned that no matter what we do , we will come out with a black eye?

if we want ASSAD gone make it so, scrub a missile of any and all identifying marks and park it on his head, I would be hard pressed to believe we can see his travels from the air, with a drown, take out assad and the top leaders, then let the goverment do what they do best, lie thru the teeth and out other bodily orfices.
Kyle Suchy 1 day ago

The way I see it, national borders are transient and inconsequential; there is no long-term reason for a country to build up a strong military, except to prevent the violation of universal human rights when diplomacy and brokering fails. It is our duty as a civilized race to prevent ourselves, nationality notwithstanding.
Brokermaw 1 day ago

We owe it to other human beings the world over to work to obliterate genocide as promised decades ago. Never, never to let this happen again. And yet we stand by and let this happen in African nations, Bosnia and Cambodia. Come folks scream loud to keep this in the publics face.
Edmund Rochford 1 day ago

If it is genocide, as defined by the UN, then the UN is required to intervene to prevent it (per it’s charter). To date, the UN has avoided defining anything as genocide, at least while it occurred, to avoid having to take action (see Rwanda, Sudan, Cambodia, etc). The US only defines actions as genocide when it benefits us and where it costs us little (see defeated Nazi Germany) but not where we would have to go to war to stop it or bring the perpetrators to justice (see Soviet Union under Stalin, Chima under Mao, as well as…

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Paul Haider 2 days ago

We should intervene only when Americans are at risk of getting killed; we can’t afford to protect any of our allies, and we have to think about the ways to generate revenues instead of wasting our taxpayer dollars. War has not generated revenues for the federal government and its citizens since 1945; it is only the military contractors such as Halliburton that will financially benefit from risking the lives of our troops. I thought that we were beyond that stupid mentality after Dickhead Cheney was removed from the White House in his wheelchair while appearing like Mr. Potter from…

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Colecala45 2 days ago

I can’t believe there are people who want American soldiers to “intervene”. My answers is No,I think this whole Syrian revolution started by a group in side the their own Government. The U.S should focus in saving or paying for most of its debt. Enough with the spending already.

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Trade puts US-Russian relations at turning point

By KEVIN G. HALL

McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — Is Russia a friend, foe or frenemy? That question hangs over Congress as lawmakers ponder whether to grant a former adversary normalized trade relations.

Since the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, the U.S.-Russia relationship has seen ups and downs, lately more of the latter. Russia has stymied U.S. efforts to thwart Iran’s nuclear ambitions and has complicated efforts to isolate Syria.

In the coming weeks, Congress will be presented with a tough choice: Should it stand up against human rights abuses in Russia or should it support greater access for U.S. companies to Russia’s more than 142 million consumers?

It’s a choice lawmakers must make because Russia is readying to join the World Trade Organization, the Geneva-based body that sets rules for and polices international trade. Russia’s legislative body, the Duma, will take up the ratification of its WTO accession on July 4. The date appears to be Russia’s way of sending an Independence Day message to its former adversary.

Since the 1970s and the Cold War, Russia has had limited access to the world’s largest economy. Russia is largely a commodity exporter, a global seller of crude oil, natural gas and minerals such as uranium. Those products are not sensitive to protectionism and other unfair trade practices. However, Russia offers exporters across the globe a big market for finished goods and services, and if it joins the WTO it will be subject to the same rules as the other 155 members.

“We have a very complicated relationship with Russia, there’s no question about that,” said Christopher Wenk, senior director for international policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which is lobbying for what’s known as permanent normal trade relations with Russia, or PNTR.

“It’s tough in terms of the foreign policy piece of our relationship â€¦ but the point we’re making is that PNTR is not about Russia, it is about the United States. This is really an issue about giving U.S. companies a level playing field in that market.”

The problem for some U.S. lawmakers is that granting Russia normalized trade relations rewards its authoritarian leader, Vladimir Putin. The Obama administration has tried to reset relations with Russia, but Putin’s return to power, anti-American rhetoric and treatment of dissidents has upset human rights advocates.

“Putin clearly has complicated things, and … human rights are not fully respected. That is quite evident, and of course Russia is not a democracy. It’s a relatively mild authoritarian state,” said Anders Aslund, a senior researcher and Russia expert at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington.

Russia is one of the four pillars in what economists call the BRIC nations – large developing economies that increasingly account for a greater share of the global economy. The other BRIC nations are Brazil, India and China.

While two-way trade with China and Brazil continues to grow, U.S. trade with Russia – which ranks between 10th and 12th globally in economic size – is surprisingly minuscule. Russia is not in the top 30 markets for U.S. exports, and last year it was the United States’ 14th biggest source of imports, behind India and ahead of Brazil.

This suggests there’s more at stake for U.S. businesses in the fight.

“Our assessment is U.S. exports to Russia could double within five years of WTO accession,” said Aslund. “It is ridiculously small now.”

U.S. exports of goods and services to Russia was about $11 billion in 2011, he said, but could double to $22 billion by 2017 if Russia joins the WTO and the United States normalizes trade relations.

Failure to grant normalized relations would allow Russia to restrict U.S. exports. Here, Russia is still subject to U.S. trade restrictions dating back to 1974, the Jackson-Vanick Amendment. Although it’s waived annually in order to allow two-way trade, it remains on the books and a big irritant.

It would disappear if Congress passed legislation granting Russia normalized trade status. However, in a sign that Congress may not be ready to decouple trade and human rights, the House Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday unanimously passed a bill to punish human rights abusers in Russia.

The measure was named after Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer for Hermitage Capital Management who died in a Russian jail in 2009, imprisoned after exposing alleged fraud by government officials.

The Magnitsky bill prohibits those involved in his death from getting visas to the United States, something the Obama administration says it’s already done. The bill also allows the State Department wide latitude to deny Russians accused of abuses access to the United States and its financial system.

Similar measures are in place for leaders of pariah states such as Iran and Myanmar. Some argue that it’s too blunt an instrument for Russia.

“The problem is Russia is simply not in the same basket” as those states, said Cory Welt, a professor and Russia expert at George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs.

“It will make our ongoing dialogue with Russia more difficult and set us up for additional confrontations in the future,” said Bill Reinsch, president of the National Foreign Trade Council, a trade group for large U.S. multinational corporations.

“As usual with unilateral sanctions, it will be the business community that loses.”

Magnitsky bill proponents hope to attach it as an amendment to legislation that would normalize trade relations with Russia, something sure to anger Moscow. Preventing that is now the top international priority for the Chamber, which argues that U.S. jobs are at stake.

“It is absolutely a jobs issue,” said Wenk, senior director for international policy at the Chamber. “Russia needs a lot of stuff in terms of infrastructure, construction equipment. We sell a lot of stuff that they need. As far as we’re concerned, the question is whether it will be U.S. companies that are supplying those needs or European and Asian companies.”

U.S. poultry producers, most in southern states, have a lot at stake in the debate. During the late 1990s they enjoyed strong sales to Russia, hitting a high-water mark of more than 1 million metric tons in 2001. That fell to 215,000 metric tons last year, said the group, which backs normalized trade relations.

“It’s still an important market for us and will be for years to come,” said Toby Moore, vice president of the U.S. Poultry & Egg Export Council in Stone Mountain, Ga. “The difficulties with Russia have been legion … but there is still demand in Russia for commodity-grade, low-cost protein. And based on our intelligence, there will be for some years to come.”

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SiDevilIam

To PBS article, sort of, a Poll, I wrote following comment, published immediately

SiDevilIam 2 hours ago
American foreign policy, whatever it may be to an ordinary, dispassionate or
much disinterested in foreign wars cannot be a perpetual penchant for
bunch of rednecks and skinheads.

Long gone are those days of “might is (more) right.” right wing (Christian) fundamentalist jaded jargon.

America would be still America, “the greatest democracy in the (un)known world.”

Why Americans want foreign occupation wars to prove their point of (world) view?

Poverty, at home needs more (moral) action. economy ain’t getting any
better, no matter who is responsible, president, Barack Obama or Ben
Bernanke.

Don’t even think that I am responsible.

I got better things to do. Stay away from getting killed by cross (friendly) fire.

…and I am Sid Harth@webworldismyoyster.com

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