Originally posted by: Sunner
Originally posted by: Crimson
Ok, can someone PLEASE explain to me why liberals hate America? If the COUNTLESS posts from you guys here, we can conclude:
America is the root of all problems in the world.
America causes terrorism.
America causes third world countries to be poor.
America ruines the environment, and is killing mother earth.
America is trying to conquer the world.
Etc.. Etc.. Etc.. Fill in the appropriate line from the democratic playbook.
Lets think about this for a moment... it seems like America is involved in SOLVING many of the world's problems, rather than the cause. WWI? Our fault? No, but we help finished it. WWII? Our fault? Nope, but we helped FINISH it. Gulf War I, Bosnia, Kosovo, Panama, etc.. Did we start any of those problems? NO.. But damnit, nobody else would deal with it, so we did! Seems like an aweful lot of problems originating from these European countries which claim we are causing all the problems.
We cause terrorism? Yeah.. right. Muslims have been either killing eachother or other people for thousands of years. They are a barbaric society and are hellbent on exterminating anyone who doesn't agree with them. How can they blame all their problems on America when we have only been around for 200+ years, when they have been around for 2000+? Wait, maybe THEY are the problem and not us..
"But Christians have killed people too!".. Yeah, they DID.. several hundred years ago, for the most part we have gotten over the idea of forcibly converting people and killing anyone who doesn't agree. Unfortunately Islam is still stuck in the dark ages.
We are ruining the environment! Global warming, whales, oceans, etc.. I know, we have been being told the Earth is dying for 30 years now.. can we come up with something else? The earth is not dying, we are not killing it, can we move on to something a little more interesting please?
America is an imperialist country. PLEASE provide proof. Japan? Nope. Germany? Nope. France? Nope.. Yugoslavia? Nope. Kuwait? Nope. We seem to have a history of NOT being imperialist if you ask me. Most of the world can't seem to keep to stop starting wars. We need to go in and solve their problems for them. If we wanted to take over the world, we would have already of done it.
"But, the world hates us!" Of course they do.. We are the best god damn country in the world. We invented the car, the airplane, the internet, the lightbulb, the telegraph, the telephone, electricity.. What other country has had a greater impact on changing the world than us? People are jealous..
I love my country.. we are the best country in the world without a doubt.. I am not guilty for being successful, I am not guilty for trying to protect my success, I am not guilty for trying to bring freedom to the rest of the world, I am not guilty for intervening in world problems when they can't be resolved by the countries involved. I think the America haters have it backwards.. if the rest of the world would LEAVE US THE HELL ALONE, the world would be perfect. I am f-ing tired of having to fix the problems of other people.
God Bless America. Thank you to every serviceman who has died to protect me and my family. Without you we would be living under the rule of some brutal dictator. We are not the problem, we are simply the easiest place to point to.
Normally, I'd stay out of this, but here goes...
For one thing, I don't "hate America", I think there is a great abundance of arrogance among the US population though, but there are many great people whose company I enjoy.
I don't care much for the Bush administration though, I think Bush&co is a hazard to this planet and it's population, and no, this doesn't come from Dem vs Rep, I couldn't care less about that, I just don't like what the Bush administration has been doing.
As for that arrogance thing, stuff like this:
I love my country.. we are the best country in the world without a doubt..
How do you define best?
Did it actually occur to you that to me, my country is the best in the world, to a French fella, France is, etc etc?
There are many reasons why I wouldn't wanna live in the US, and Im sure there are many reasons why you'd never wanna live in Sweden, but judging by your comment that I quoted, you seem unable to fathom the concept which Im trying to describe.
And that arrogance is, IMO, the reaon why so many people have a general(as in, not directly related to Iraq, or something like that) dislike for the US, there are too many arrogant people who are stuck in that line of thinking, much like religious zealots are extremely annoying with their holier than thou attitudes.
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