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Bottom line--we always look at our interests in regions regardless of how it will look, and we have to live and die by those decisions. Unfortunately, the people who implemented those policies may be voted out of office, but it is us (we the people) that have to suffer because of them.

And you wonder why people in that region hate us--maybe it's because we the people vote for the people in office that implement these policies. Most of them don't have much of a choice.

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Honestly, I have no idea how this is different than what I was saying, since I wasn't saying that people who vote for bad presidents are doing nothing wrong. But it is silly to adopt a collectivist mindset and someone blame 'people of America' for what amounts to the actions of a small minority, merely because some percentage of them may have voted for some of the members of government, possibly (or possibly not) knowing how these leaders would act.