text: let's try this again... america & freeing other countries!? okay. so my questions seems to have died early & since people dont check back to see extra comments im asking again. first though, please don't give me bs about the war in iraq, that is not the issue. i support our troops so lets try to look beyond that fact at the question at hand.  why does the american government fight to free other countries?  isn't it ironic the civil war was not over slavery but over the south wanting freedom? yet, we're fighting wars to free other countries from unfair gov'ts. the us fought its bloodiest war b/c it was unwilling to allow the south to be free of a gov't which was hindering it with tariffs. not only did we start a war over the same issues we sought to free ourselves from in the revolutionary war, but in turn, the gov't changed the focus to slavery. its against the law for any state to suceed from the us. isn't that hypocracy? how can we say we get the right to free other countries when we have denied freedom to our own people? there is a book called "overthrow : america's century of regime change from hawaii to iraq".  it talks about 14 cases when the us became involved in another country. ie) panama, nicaragua, hawaii, iraq, iran, cuba, and more. the author was a foreign correspondent for the new york times and says how the countries where the us became involved in, were worse off than before the us became involved.  he also says that the us becomes involved in other countries basically to protect us international business.  its a great read.