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>  >Seriously... A country declares war for expanding or protecting its
>  >economic power, the rest is propaganda. You should read Kool Musick's
>>post more attentively. All the refutations to your fairytales are
>  >there, in a brilliant synthesis.
>
>I take a personal affront to labeling the deaths of half a million Americans
>fighting wars which were started by others, as fairytales.

I certainly don't want to affront you. There's a misunderstanding, 
maybe my English is inadequate, what I'm reffering to as fairytales 
is stories which tend to make people believe that politics can be 
altruistic, that (for example) USA fought in Europe, Vietnam, Iraq, 
etc. for freedom, or that Belgium colonized Congo to liberate the 
natives from Arab slavery and cannibalism, or that USSR bought sugar 
cane to Cuba at twice the market price because they liked Fidel 
Castro and his beard. Etc etc.

>The US used to be
>a very isolationist country in first half of this century. Even in 1940 about
>90% of the people were opposed to going to war - hoping that somehow the war
>in Europe and Asia would not affect us

Then the American government realized the huge economic and political 
profits this action would bring in the long run.  The Americans 
soldiers were told they were defending freedom, but in reality they 
fought so that Coca Cola, which tasted like medicine to my 
grandmother, would taste like freedom to their children... Anyway 
that's the fairytale _I_ believe. Again, no offense intended.