Why does the US feel it’s exempt from global consequences? We obviously feel this way as we invaded Iraq without any support from the bulk of the international community, who does nothing to stop us. Why do you think this is?
Does the US have such a stranglehold on global politics that no one dares stand up to us?
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Opinion16% Voted for by Coconut, Gothic pixie, ohsweetie970, Sachiel Hijikata, -TheLoneWolf-.
That just might be the case, but it could also be that other countries are just biding their time… Just because the US holds the big guns doesn’t mean they’re the greatest. I say this in the upmost respect to those that disagree. I’m just saying that what comes around goes around, and someone will try to invade us one day and inflict their ways of life upon us… and then there will be nothing we can do about it. Just because Democracy is right for some, doesn’t mean it’s right for all.
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If the UN did its job...16% Voted for by drkbrdmstr, ohsweetie970, mbbg0, Sachiel Hijikata, looking4realtruth.
If the UN enforced its own resolutions—11 of them in violation—then the US wouldn’t have to do this. But because the UN is weak and corrupt, the US has to step up.
Don’t get me wrong, the UN isn’t all-bad, but it is still very flawed.
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to be honest...13% Voted for by drkbrdmstr, ohsweetie970, mbbg0, Sachiel Hijikata.
i think the US is just to nice, we like to help out where we can but end up sticking our nose in peoples business which it doesn’t belong. i do believe that the UN is not doing its job right though and if they had we wouldn’t have gone to Iraq but they didn’t so technically it is their fault the war has happened, we are subject to their laws but they are to weak to always be listened to…that’s my view sorry if i offend anybody.
Ash
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False Premise10% Voted for by drkbrdmstr, bettaproger, wbiro.
Author is reacting to popularized media, which only presents slanted micro-focuses of the world. Which way it slants depends on what sells.
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People Hate the Best6% Voted for by Sachiel Hijikata, nihilismisdead.
Historically people have always hated those that have ruled the world. When it was the Spaniards people hated them. When it was the French peopl feared Napoleon and hated him. When it was the British anti-Anglo literature sported throughout Germany. Now that it is America something similar is forming. In any atmosphere what is best will always be resented by those who cannot achieve it.
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What about our sovereignty of our nation and the protection of our constitution?6% Voted for by webdemon666, looking4realtruth.
In recent years I have seen the Supreme court forget completely what their job is, Which is nothing more than to rule whether a law is constitutional or not. Lately the Supreme court has been making decisions based on international opinion. For example the recent ruling on eminent domain. (The right of the local governments to take your land from you and hand it over to private developers.) The problem with this is the international opinion is that America sucks and we are all capitalist pigs. It is a matter of what is more important to Americans, International acceptance or maintaining our constitutional rights.
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To the jerkoff who mentioned Africa!!!6% Voted for by Energizer Bunny, webdemon666.
Tuesday -- July 5, 2005
FIGHTING POVERTY
What a weekend! What a holiday! Millions of Americans celebrating the very freedom they fear, and that nice man Bob Geldof telling us evil Americans what we should be doing with the money we work so hard for! Why, we should be sending it to Africa, that's what.
Lets give thanks that Live 8 is over. What a bunch of sanctimonious, self-righteous, narcissistic jerk-offs. They top off their great multi-venue circle jerk Sunday with a demand that the United States cough up some more money for something they refer to as "aid and justice for Africa." These rock stars have a goal. They are demanding that the evil United States cough up 0.7% of its gross domestic product and send it to Africa. What these footstools don't grasp is that the 0.7% isn't theirs to demand or theirs to distribute as they see fit. That money belongs to the men and women of the United States who got up every morning and went out and damned well earned it. Personally, I don't give a flying fornication just how much of our money they think should be sent to Africa. I dare say that the average sheetrock installer in Sheboygan donates a greater percentage of his earnings to charity than do these insipid rock stars.
And just what is it about Africa? Here is a continent with an incredible abundance of natural resources -- and a history that speaks to nothing but poverty. So, these Live 8 guitar players want to do something about poverty in Africa? Maybe they should be demanding the return of land in Zimbabwe to the white farmers from whom it was stolen! Just a few decades ago Zimbabwe was one of Africa's richest breadbaskets. Zimbabwean farmers fed their own country and many of their neighboring countries with the food from their farms and ranches. Then along comes their new exalted ruler ... the great Robert Mugabe. He sends his goon squads out to steal the land from the white farmers - murdering many of them - and turns those farms over to his revolutionary soldiers. What happens next? Hunger, that's what. Now Zimbabwe can't even feed its own people, let alone the citizens of neighboring African countries. To make matters worse, Mugabe is now engaged in a campaign to destroy the homes of poor citizens in Zimbabwe's capitol so that they will move back out into the bush where they won't be so visible and problematic. So ... did you hear one of these rock stars even hint that the United States should do something about Mugabe? Are you kidding? Sure, they like want to fight like poverty and like all that .. but that doesn't mean that they're ever going to like say one like negative word about any of the like dictators who like steal so much of the aid money and like keep their own people in poverty.
Oh .. and here's something else that these brilliant rock stars you won't hear about. I'm talking about the birth rate in Africa. In Africa, as in America and in so many other parts of the world, the people who can least afford to raise children are the people with the highest pregnancy rates. It is considered to be gravely politically incorrect in America to ever suggest that a woman who cannot afford to raise a child should do something to prevent pregnancy. It seems you can't address this situation in Africa either. The solution for African women having children they can't afford to raise is to go to the United States and confiscate the money needed to raise them.
The problems faced by Africa are largely cultural. Though our illustrious rock stars wouldn't touch this, the dominant African culture is one of irresponsible reproduction, tribal warfare, submission to dictatorial despots, anti-capitalistic governments and unprotected sex leading to rampant disease. Live 8 isn't going to change this, and either is confiscating more American wealth to be poured into this mess.
The answer to African poverty may well be to shed this burden of political correctness and to start calling the shots over there as we see them. If these intellectually superior rock stars really want to do something about poverty and justice in Africa a good first step might be to ask the Western world to forcibly remove Robert Mugabe from power in Zimbabwe and return the farming land to its rightful owners.
Yeah ... like that's going to happen. 'Neal Boortz'
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All Too Human6% Voted for by to-each-his-own, thrawn.
This is my interpretation: America is a great country with wealth of oppportunity and spiritual, mental, sexual, etc. freedom of all kinds...ironically, this is what drives it's extreme arrogance. If we are truly to overcome ourselves and realize the beuaty and depth of not just America, but life itself, then we must be willing to except our never-ending folly and the truth of truthlessness. If we are to advance ourselves, then considering ourselves above everybody else is not only insecure and self-righteous, but it is spiritually akin to taking one step forward and two steps back. If we are to listen to true resaon, we must listen to ourselves and except that maybe accepting our potential for evil can actually bring out the best in us. If America is to set an example, it has to mean it. And as for this love of thy neighbor and social wisdom and acceptance, I'm going to be pretty friggin straight with you guys: IT HASN'T EVEN STARTED YET.
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What I thinkVoted for by me alone.
First I would like to say this. I am american, I was born and raised here. Both my parents are american, my mothers family came over on the mayflower, I am the 14th generation to be boprn in the US. I am american, unfortunatly. And I think that as a whole this contry is acting like complete idiots. People who voted for bush are complaining about the war. When you voted for bush you voted for war. You can have one of the other NOT both. I think that the US needs to realize that we are not the only country in the world, and we are not the best counrty in the world. Just one of the richest and most selfish. Also people are like look we are helping Iraq, but that is not why we went there is it? We went to get wepons of mass destruction. And look, there weren't any? And didn't the war end like a year or two ago? THen why the hell are we still there? I am going to stop before I bite off someones head. Thats only part of my speech, but I think killing people is immoral so I will stop now. ♥Kate
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WMD's FOUND IN IRAQVoted for by webdemon666.
This is an atrical from Neal Boortz commenting on the FOX story "WMD's found in Iraq"
The media is fond of reminding us that no Weapons of Mass Destruction were ever found in Iraq. This has been the clarion call of the Democrats for a couple of years now. However, did you know that WMD were found in Iraq? Not just a couple...but lots of them. A mother who lost her son in Iraq was interviewed on Fox News had this to say: "I have seen photos of entire fighter jets buried in the sand. I have seen pictures of entire caches of weapons that just my son's unit would uncover." I wonder why we never hear much about that one? Here's also a nice little list of what was found:-500 tons...that's right...TONS...make that 1million pounds of yellow cake uranium. It was found at Saddam's nuclear weapons facility (yup...he had one of those too.)
-1.8 tons of partially enriched uranium found at the same place. You know, the stuff you need to make nukes.
-Hidden centrifuge parts and blueprints.
-Two dozen artillery shells loaded with Sarin and mustard gas.
Sounds like WMD to me! You may want to print this off and impress your friends with your knowledge.
I hate to gloat, BUT... Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
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OK........Voted for by Singes06.
American Presidents seem like they want to get involoved with every foreign affair, good or bad. America has a cocky attitude about every thing. Although, What America does, sometimes helps, and other countries get an “I told you so.”
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democracy is right, terriany is rongJuly 10, 2005
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November 6, 2005
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We do not live in a "Democracy!"
I really wish people would stop using that term. The US is a republic, not a democracy. Democracies fail. A republic is a system of laws, and a democracy is majority rules. Get it right.April 29, 2007
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As for this: We are helping the Iraqi's
They said it was better with saddam, what kind of help is that?
And I spend a lot of time reading news clips from all over the world so obviously all my opinons are well informed because I would hate being ignorant like certian people.
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