Everyone knows that I place blame for the Sept. 11 attacks solely on the terrorists. I don't think you can really blame US policy or anything like that.
While you can easily write-off the actions of one man as a fluke, the fact his greviences are widespread, legitimate and providing resivors of support tends to make one question what the U.S is doing.
When you look at the fact the U.S is engaging in immoral and illegal actions in the Middle East, it is easy to see why a fucktard like Bin Laden gets so much support, even from moderate Arabs who detest his methods. It should be a clear warning bell that non-radical Arabs are pissed off about the same things, and were pissed off about them since long before Osama Bin Laden ever decdided to be a terrorist.
No amount of Public Relations will be able to counteract the U.S foreign policy these people come face to face with every day. Food drops, "America Loves You" leaflets, none of that will change the fundamental views of the people who are victims of what the U.S does.
You can say they are jelous or whatever, but that is a cop-out a safe way to write-off U.S policy and leaves us no closer to a solution than we were on September 11th.
I honestly didn't intend this to be a thread about who or who isn't a USA-basher, I just mentioned that I don't understand why anyone would be a USA-hater.
Look at our foreign policy.
Explain our deliberate targeting of civillians in Nicaragua an elsewhere. Justify that. And explain to me how it goes along with your Christian beleifs.
Explain how overthrowing a freely-elected government in Chile is defending freedom and how is goes along with your democratic beliefs.
Explain how targeting civillians with sanctions against food and medicine to punish a few in power is compatible with your Christian beliefs and your sense of human decency.
Explain why a millitary that illegally seizes land, occupies it and settles it in a blatant violation of international law and then chooses to target civillians based on their ethnic background, while committing human rights violations - explain why this deserves to be funded by the U.S and how it goes along with your Christian beleifs and democratic ideals.
It makes me feel SO sad that you didnt count DrGonzo in too, 'cos I think he thinks a LOT alike me...and also Drew (Eleanor Rigby here).
Aww, thanks Patti!
That is why I don't understand America-haters. It's not as if the USA is alone in making wrong decisions.
I don't understand why you went through the trouble of posting that laundry list, when I clearly said that I know America has its imperfections, as do other countries. And it was that "as do other other countries" part that made me wonder why people single out America to hate. Therefore, your list really doesn't make any difference here. I still don't know why, among all the imperfect countries in the world, people choose America to hate the most.
The U.S prides itself on being the "leader of the free world", when it engages in rampant terrorism around the globe without the slightest concern for inncoent human life, it makes its campaign against terrorism seem extremly hypocritical.
When you are the most powerful nation on Earth, and single yourself out as a model for others and morally superior to the rest of the world, you find yourself open to more criticsm than anyone else. Especially when you constantly challenge the notion that you are what you say you are, and then persecute others for doing exactly what you do as a matter of
policy.
Other nations fuckup, but no other nation rains its misery down on others as much as the U.S. A nation which has no respect for soverignty, international law, human rights or human decency. A nation which takes what it wants when it wants it and does what it wants to do when and where it chooses to without the slightest shred of concern for anyone but itself.
And
then turns around and attacks others for trying to defend against this, or even
emulate it. While proclaiming itself the best nation in the world, the one who is a leader of freedom, democracy and human rights.