The truth is....

[GAMEFACE]

when you are France, Canada, Germany, and all the the other socialist countries on the planet it's easy to criticize the greatest nation on Earth when you know deep down inside you can do nothing to alter world events. It must be an empty feeling knowing you cannot defend yourself if things get ugly and must defend on the country you run in the ground daily.

America stands alone to help the over run and needy, therefore the decisions are not easy. If not for America who would have freed Kuwait, France, SK, Germany? No one.

Other countries suffer from an inferiority complex. There is nothing they can do on the world stage.

America stands strong for freedom and many weak countries envy America.

It's always been that way, think back to your days on the football or baseball field you always wanted to hit the homerun or score the TD. When you came up short you looked on in defeat and wished you were the one winning.

America scores time and time again, we will prevail no doubt.

 

[xpanda]

Okay.

 

[Marco]

"Other countries suffer from an inferiority complex. There is nothing they can do on the world stage."

Small countries have thier own problems and infrastructure to deal with, which consumes most of thier time and money. Besides, what country needs to do the heavy lifting and heavy spending and all the dying when good ole' big brother USA steps in to stop the bleeding? No need to step out and take a risk when big brother is always there in a heartbeat.

"America scores time and time again, we will prevail no doubt."

Scoring, as in a contest.....the contest would appear to be how many relations we can strain and break in the international community with our unilateralism and extreme actions....throw in a quest to see the national credit card at an all time high, the effects to be felt for generations to come......the death of social security......the death of the US dollar as the benchmark of foreign trade......

We will prevail if the goal is ending up in bankruptcy proceedings.

But hey, if the dollar is only worth one quarter as much just print four times more to make up for it.......it's only money.....

Party on.....arty:

 

[GAMEFACE]

Marco

America is the the backbone of the world.

 

[GAMEFACE]

Marco

We have to act quick. You know the weapons are much greater than in the 30's.

 

[A1exxx]

The US is slowly losing its place as a political and economic hyperpower in the world....the 21st century will be the Asian century (particularly China and to a lesser extent, India).
Enjoy it will it lasts Gameface.

 

[eek.]

Every successful long term empire needs allies to get it through the rough times.

At the moment Bush is not regarded as a real ally (except for Israel) and he simply cannot be trusted to take sensible decisions.

Clinton showed the way on what can be achieved with decent leadership.
So when underachiever Bush comes along he is simply not tolerated.

If this administration tries to 'regain credibility' over the next 4 years they will be wasting their time.
Western allies are just waiting for a new start, and everything is on hold until that time.

Hopefully he won't bankrupt your country or create another Iraqi clusterfúk before he's gone.

 

[lander]

Dum dum,
I thought you were re-enlisting? Freedom from people not threatening your freedom isn't free, you know.

Oh silly me, I forgot ... the new meaning of courage is to avoid duty and send other people's kids to die.

 

[Marco]

"Hopefully he won't bankrupt your country or create another Iraqi clusterfuk before he's gone."

Nice thought, eek......but the rabid republicans have another 4 years or so to see what kind of vandalism they can create on the planet and on the financial and reputation aspects of the US.

One can only expect more lies and corruption to follow and a steady diet of incoming body bags postmarked from the middle east....there's plenty of roadside bombs to find so time's a wastin'.......

 

[kayaman+]

We hear a lot of this type of whining and crying about critisim of the U.S. from some of the posters here.
We promote ourselves as the righteous, defenders of the good cause, liberators even while we bully the world with our polocies, therefore we fall under higher scrutiny from the global community. A priest is held to higher moral and ethical standards than say a cabbie for example. It's a no brainer but as they say common sense is actually the least common of the senses.

The freeing Kuwait comment I do have to point out is just comical. You need to check your history, Kuwait was stolen from Iraq in a very similar fashion to the way the English stole Northern Ireland. Whatever his motives, saddam decided to take it back and we said no. Did we say no as the great defenders of the people of Kuwait, well that's the nice story book version. We were getting a very small portion of our oil from Kuwait, so it wasn't a war for oil right, well almost. Japan on the other hand was getting the majority of their oil from Kuwait, but who cares about Japan right? Well thanks to good ol' ronnie ray-gun we owed Japan a favor because he sold all those government bonds to them in the '80's to make up for his ridiculous spending, do keep in mind that ronnie took from greatest creditor nation to greatest debtor nation in his 8 years.
So yeah God bless American for saving Kuwait.

 

[GAMEFACE]

The truth does hurt, I know.

 

[kayaman+]

You're right the truth about the motives behind what our government does, yes that does hurt.

 

[GAMEFACE]

Kaya,

America has to make decision most have the luxury to never even have to ponder.

As we see Iran on the verge of getting NUKES the world circle jerks waiting to see what America will do. For once it would be nice to see another country step up. As we all know America will have to resolve the problem.

 

[kayaman+]

So you're finally admitting that we do do bad things too?

 

[xpanda]

Kaya,

America has to make decision most have the luxury to never even have to ponder.

As we see Iran on the verge of getting NUKES the world circle jerks waiting to see what America will do. For once it would be nice to see another country step up. As we all know America will have to resolve the problem.

You're aware that some European nations are in negotiations with Iran?

 

[GAMEFACE]

Kaya,

I never said we don't make mistakes, when you are relied on by so many and you have to act sure mistakes will be made.

 

[kayaman+]

My problem is when we impose and then portray ourselves as heros for example in Iraq, they weren't relying on use to "liberate" them. The liberator thing was the White House's spin (to use one of you righties favorite terms) when no WMD appeared.

 

[GAMEFACE]

You're aware that some European nations are in negotiations with Iran?

Negotiations LMFAO! Iran will say anything, it doesn't mean for one second they do not plan to continue to build NUKES.

 

[GAMEFACE]

My problem is when we impose and then portray ourselves as heros for example in Iraq, they weren't relying on use to "liberate" them. The liberator thing was the White House's spin (to use one of you righties favorite terms) when no WMD appeared.

It sounds good to some. We are heros to the world, too bad only anti-US media exist out side of the US. They really don't get the truth.

If not for the US NK over-runs SK, China over-runs Tawain. France does not exist. Kuwait does not exist. Israel is pushed into the sea. Russia runs rough shot over their neighbors. That's alot of good America has done. Name a country that has done more good. Are we perfect? No, no one is.

 

[JinnRikki]

Now wouldn't you be suprised to see the French make a few holes in Iranian soil? And if they do will you then say some one else stepped up, or just not post for a while?

"Heroes to the world" err... not anymore.