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You're preaching to the choir, my friend. I am in complete agreement with
everything you said. Americans are a contradiction in terms, screaming isolationist/protectivists one second, and reluctant imperialist/colonialists the next. We send billions of personal monetary aid to tragedy affected regions and complain that our government spends too much on foreign aid. We think we're the best at everything but rarely place in the top ten on anything non-capitalistic. We think the whole world should act like us and can't understand why they don't and don't want to -- ever. That is the good ole USA -- The Uncomprehending Simpletons of America.
posted by
saul_relative
on September 19, 2006 at 10:03 PM
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That should be money, not mommy!!
posted by
Antonionioni
on September 19, 2006 at 4:55 PM
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Can any of you explain
the phenomena of the Bush re-election and initial election? Even if the first time around he garnered slightly less votes than Gore, he still impressed enough actual voters to vote for him. And why re-elected after the debacle of 9/11 and the Iraq invasion. I include Tony Blair in this idiocy, but his potentially unlimited days as leader are well and truly numbered, mainly because of the Iraq / WMD deception and blind Bush-obedience. Oh, I'll have a go myself. In some ways, it's a perfectly logical and necessary thing to be self-serving and right-wing and offensive rather than pacifist. Not just to provide your dad's buddies with lucrative contracts, but also (and this is where the ordinary folks' allegiance comes in), because life is a battle - yes it is, and always has been, sadly. And the weak go to the wall. Many Americans are paranoid, led by the Christians of course, as they have been for decades (Vietnam, Korea) simply because they have been top dog, and that position is envied and the cause of hatred, as it was for the British a century earlier. But even more now than then, the little people (the Middle east, or anywhere for that matter) are better equipped to fight back. There are two alternatives - to continue to pursue a Bush doctrine / manifest destiny, etc. etc., and back it up with military expenditure and loss of civilian and military lives, or to abdicate with honour and become a giant Switzerland - focussed on momey and able to defend your own turf, but without the global policeman / exploitation aspirations. We should all aspire to the latter, i think. live and let live. Forget about protecting Israel. Why should you? Let the UN worry about that. Then you wouldn't be seen as racist / imperialist and so on. All nations really just aspire to a decent standard of living and territorial integrity. Imperialist actions by USA and Britain to protect their own interests provoke understandable ire among the non-West nations and encourage fundamentalism!
posted by
Antonionioni
on September 19, 2006 at 4:54 PM
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Not really, Azur. I don't believe he has read or even gives a damn what
the Constitution says.
posted by
saul_relative
on September 19, 2006 at 3:27 PM
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You have to wonder don't you?
posted by
Azur
on September 19, 2006 at 1:39 PM
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