Is it America's job to "run the world"?

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That is the beauty of America. We both have the right to our opinions and the right to express them on a public forum.

Where else in the world is there the Freedom of Speech protection that Americans enjoy.

The answer is nowhere.
 
I already said that I misspoke and apologize but I now wonder what extreme speech could be. Could it be critizing Islam or any religion other than Christianity? Can it be against any race other than whites? What constitutes extreme speech where a person could or should go to prison? And if to go to prison then the questions that could arise as to why to do such a thing never cease in my mind. I am certain it’s not a police state, America is no paradise either as I said in previous posts on this very thread, but “hate speech” seems a superfluous idea in a “free” society. Just my opinion, no harm or offense intended.
 
Even against Catholics, as an Orthodox convert it doesn’t matter much to be except pertaining to my family and free people everywhere but that’s beside the point, that doesn’t mean you should go to prison. We have plenty of problems here in America and I shouldn’t worry so much about this issue since we have our own sins to worry about. I’m just a very curious person and a seriously wonder what constitutes “hate speech.”
 
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Le_Bonvivant said:
Only in extreme situations. I live in Holland and I am happy the USA helped to liberate us from the nazis. We (the europeans) begged the USA for help and were very grateful. In most other cases, Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, the people didnt want American help and it probably did more harm than good.
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Being invited to intervene by a sovereign nation being invaded by foreign forces is a different case, though.
 
Majority ruling has existed in just about every country in history and is more understanding than a superficial political correctness that can’t bring about anything but resentment and bitterness dividing people. I am NOT saying that it is good, every country is obligated to protect its minorities, just that it’s more understandable. This was true in Britain with Catholics for centuries as you alluded to earlier.

I have a serious question to ask. Do you worry that with all of this forced political correctness that, good intentioned or not, there may one day result in an explosion of either violence or discontent among an increasingly irritated majority? I’m only asking because I can’t see how limiting speech is a good thing and I have great doubts that it was done with the best of intentions. This is possible in America too but far worse. Our gun violence and familial disintegration issues here are just a rash that has arisen as a result of a spiritually sick society.
 
The only answer to hate speech is more speech.

In America, almost anyone over 35 will tell you that, “I may hate what you are saying, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it.” This is a reason why America is that shinning city on the hill. A beacon of freedom to the rest of the world.

Millennials??? I guess they are a lost generation.
 
I’m kind of old fashioned in regards to NATO. I think any agreement where the US will intervene on behalf of a country must be explicitly ratified by congress.

We should have killed NATO the day the Warsaw Pact fell apart.
 
Growing up in New York City I can tell of a million similar stories, I even have Muslims and Jews in my family (immediate, sharing a household). Real world people, especially in the working class, don’t get riled up by this nonsense as this is largely an elitist imposed agenda in both our countries. However, I genuinely fear the consequences of all of these “good intentions” by individuals who don’t want the people they’re so aggressive in “helping” anywhere near them, except as domestic servants of course. Too much superficiality can be too heavy a burden for a society to bear. What happens when the economic situation that made this all possible breaks down and we are reduced more to our personal identities? I don’t want to find out, but I fear that I will in my lifetime. Again, this can be applied to the US policing the world. It is a bad idea on so many levels as I mentioned earlier, only on a global scale and we are telling the world to become more like us while we ourselves are so spiritually sick that the fruits we bear is so rotten that even the flies won’t go near it. Anyway, it’s late and I am going to bed. Goodnight or good morning! BTW it was interesting to hear what you said about the London Irish as I am of Irish decent myself. God Bless and Goodnight!
 
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It will only be gone when the last American remains silent.

The reason why the rest of the world wants to come here is American exceptionalism. The American Dream is alive and well. Just ask anybody in flyover country.
 
Catholics weren’t supposed to have a seat at that table either…
The Irish, to use one example, were little better than blacks.
Just seems an odd position for a Catholic to hold.
 
Alive and well? More like, alive and dying. It will not last forever and is on the decline whatever people in flyover country would like to think. Now, it is still better, by far, than anywhere else but it is dying slowly in some ways and rapidly in others.
 
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Step up and do something about it. The world is going to be in a great deal of trouble if America crumbles from within.
 
Le_Bonvivant said:
In most other cases, Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, the people didnt want American help and it probably did more harm than good.
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I’m not sure this is true. In those cases SOME of the people didn’t want American help.

One notices that America is very popular in Vietnam; about 70% of Vietnamese polled say they have a favorable view of America.
 
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I give money to people less fortunate than me all the time. I even help people I am estranged from in secret. I am a man of very limited means and if I could do more I would in an instant. Out of all my years a Roman Catholic Saint Therese of Lisiuex has been the most influential on me with her “Little Way.” I am also aspiring for a career in social services and by this time next year I will be able to serve more, if God Wills it. However, fixing a country in decline, which is obvious if you are honest with yourself, is beyond my scope unless I am given the means by God Himself. I am not even saying that I have all the answers, just that the country is very sick from the highest of levels to the very lowest. I have many of those symptoms myself so I can recognize the sickness, which I will spend the rest of my life trying desperately to remove.
 
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Yes, if America fell the world would not only suffer but starve too. I am not one of those America hating leftists, not in the least. Self criticism is the first step to improving any situation from individuals to communities to nations.
 
Iraq and Afghanistan have millions of people orphaned and impoverished as a result of those wars. I wonder how the dismembered, displaced and disinherited feel about those wars. Maybe one day they’ll feel like the Vietnamese, it’ll only take another three decades.
 
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