Even if the US were trying to conquer Iraq euro style, I would support it.

[Sandman]

What's a US style conquest like then?

[Seeker]

It looks like this:

A socialist government is elected* with a mandate of nationalizing US owned companies or otherwise threatening US interests. They throw out the old officer/industry guys.

The US spends billions to first create, and then assist, an opposition that will take over the country and run it in compliance with US wishes. The oppostion is usually a brutal paramilitary with advanced weapons, intel, and air support, vs some farmers with AKs and machetes (who are ignorant, poor, and thus equally brutal).

*or threatens to be elected, in which the US backed Army must 'save the people from themselves' by taking over and doing a good ole disappearance of intellectuals and liberal-types.

Also, of course, those cases in which the 'socialist' government is just a bunch of thugs who called them selves 'Marxist' to get money from the Soviets (the case in too many African countries to count).

I suppose it is a defensible policy if you believe the US is this really great country that will save the world, and therefore it has to protect its interests at all costs.

[Bas]

[Demerzel]

I think I'll quote one of the American members of this forum with one slight change

"Yawn... gee, another Anti-European thread. How original. Yawn... I'll give it 0.00000000000000001 / 10"