Why are Americans universally despised today?

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walstan:
That’s an interesting comment from a peace loving religion. Fruedian slip maybe?
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Where is your mind!! In the gutter!! Come’on now…:rolleyes:

Throughout history, peace is has not been attained JUST by talking to bad guys, SOMETIMES they need to be fought.

Wacko Islamacists laugh at French soldiers, but the US military gives them pause.
 
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romano:
Why are Americans universally despised today?
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I heard on the radio today that the NY Times and Al Jazeera both covered the same demonstration overseas. Al Jazeera reported that the demonstration was over some policy or other, and the NY Times kept saying it was against America. Apparently, the NY Times painted the whole thing as more directly Anti-American than Al Jazeera. :eek: Food for thought.
 
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twf:
The United States is home to 5% of the world’s population, yet consumes 30% of the world’s resources. How is this justified? This isn’t just a fault of the United States, but also of all Western countries (it just so happens that the United States has the highest population…so her impact is far greater). My own country Canada actually consumes more energy (and perhaps uses more resources, not sure on this point) per capita than does the United States, so I’m not singling out the USA, but we can not continue to consume such excessive quantities of the world’s resources. There is more than enough food, for example, in the world to feed everyone…but there are certainly not sufficient resources to allow all the world to share in a Western lifestyle–it’s simply not possible, given the limited size of our planet, and the limits of our environment. How can we (the Western World again) justify our lavish lifestyles considering the following two facts: a) There is more than enough food to feed every human being alive b) Millions starve to death every year because this food is not properly distributed.
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Very good points here. Remember, though, that, as powerful as we are, other countries have deep problems that aren’t our fault. They have corruption, abuses, lack of human and civil rights, lack of education, etc. Oftentimes, starvation occurs because corrupt leaders steal food sent, in order to make a profit, and meanwhile people starve.

One of the reasons, also, that life is so good in the West is because we have cultures that support individual freedom, rule of law, etc. This is not so elsewhere in the world, and can’t be changed overnight.
 
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BLB_Oregon:
I don’t think everyone hates us, but…
  1. We want everyone to like us, even admire us and imitate us, preferably openly and often. Not going to happen.
  2. We want a lot of security, and since we can intervene a lot, we do. Maybe not wrong, per se, but no way to be popular.
  3. Not only do we tolerate a great deal of impurity, vulgarity, and immorality, we export it for profit. Not a recipe for creating an international admiration society.
  4. We are competitive, rather than humble… we speak too often of how we are best, too little of how much other cultures have to offer. When we travel, we do not make enough effort to respect the local customs and culture.
  5. We seem to believe we are entitled to a life that people in other countries don’t have. That breeds resentment, too.
  6. Because we are very powerful and speak of our way of life in such lofty terms, we are held to a higher standard. We don’t always live up to that.
On the other hand, many people dream of coming here because:
  1. We give the chance for people to say what they think and worship as they please.
  2. We give the chance to advance by working hard, valuing merit more than accident of birth.
  3. We welcome strangers and believe anyone can become our friend.
  4. We have great cities that combine the art and culture of many other nations, along with vast and beautiful undeveloped spaces.
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Well said!!!
 
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twf:
The United States is home to 5% of the world’s population, yet consumes 30% of the world’s resources. How is this justified? This isn’t just a fault of the United States, but also of all Western countries (it just so happens that the United States has the highest population…so her impact is far greater). My own country Canada actually consumes more energy (and perhaps uses more resources, not sure on this point) per capita than does the United States, so I’m not singling out the USA, but we can not continue to consume such excessive quantities of the world’s resources. There is more than enough food, for example, in the world to feed everyone…but there are certainly not sufficient resources to allow all the world to share in a Western lifestyle–it’s simply not possible, given the limited size of our planet, and the limits of our environment. How can we (the Western World again) justify our lavish lifestyles considering the following two facts: a) There is more than enough food to feed every human being alive b) Millions starve to death every year because this food is not properly distributed.
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I had no idea the wild west of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California was so badly corrupted. But when it comes to Beverly Hills and Neiman Marcus…
 
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twf:
The United States is home to 5% of the world’s population, yet consumes 30% of the world’s resources. How is this justified? This isn’t just a fault of the United States, but also of all Western countries (it just so happens that the United States has the highest population…so her impact is far greater). My own country Canada actually consumes more energy (and perhaps uses more resources, not sure on this point) per capita than does the United States, so I’m not singling out the USA, but we can not continue to consume such excessive quantities of the world’s resources. There is more than enough food, for example, in the world to feed everyone…but there are certainly not sufficient resources to allow all the world to share in a Western lifestyle–it’s simply not possible, given the limited size of our planet, and the limits of our environment. How can we (the Western World again) justify our lavish lifestyles considering the following two facts: a) There is more than enough food to feed every human being alive b) Millions starve to death every year because this food is not properly distributed.
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Since the United States and Canada are located in those parts of the earth where we have winter we of course are going to use more energy resources than someone who lives in the tropics (India, SE Asia etc). The United States has tried to help feed the starving world, North Korea, Somalia, etc. When we bring the food in the War Lords or the Government grab the food and distribute it to their “people” (aka armies and militias). The problem is that there are many people in this world who are in power but do not want to see their people advance as it would lead to them being put out of power.
 
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Cubsfan:
The United States has tried to help feed the starving world, .
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U.S. aid ranks low

If one expects a small child to carry the same load as a football tackle, then the political cartoon (Jan. 8) showing Uncle Sam carrying the world with its foreign aid might have been accurate. While the generosity of the people of this country is exemplified in the multitude of gifts for tsunami relief, U.S. humanitarian foreign aid is much less than most of us think.

As a nation, the U.S. often places dead last in relation to other donor countries in aid as a percentage of gross national product. The government has yet to meet the foreign aid goal, even though the goal is less than 1 percent of GNP. It has even failed to fully fund the Millennium Challenge Account, announced by the president at a 2002 U.N. conference to reduce poverty in developing nations.

If the generous people of this country knew the true facts, I doubt that U.S. foreign assistance would be outdone by other donor nations and the European Union.

Judy Butler
Spokane
Spokane, WA

spokesmanreview.com/news/letters.asp?date=011605&id=l24136

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4HisChurch:
I heard on the radio today that the NY Times and Al Jazeera both covered the same demonstration overseas. Al Jazeera reported that the demonstration was over some policy or other, and the NY Times kept saying it was against America. Apparently, the NY Times painted the whole thing as more directly Anti-American than Al Jazeera. :eek: Food for thought.
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The New York Times is against all of us. They won’t be happy until they can bring down our government. They are as much the enemy as the terrorists.
 
…IMHO… because what we say and what we do are hardly ever the same…
 
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Fitz:
The New York Times is against all of us. They won’t be happy until they can bring down our government. They are as much the enemy as the terrorists.
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Really? :eek: Good Lord!!! :eek: :eek:
 
walstan said:
U.S. aid ranks low

If one expects a small child to carry the same load as a football tackle, then the political cartoon (Jan. 8) showing Uncle Sam carrying the world with its foreign aid might have been accurate. While the generosity of the people of this country is exemplified in the multitude of gifts for tsunami relief, U.S. humanitarian foreign aid is much less than most of us think.

As a nation, the U.S. often places dead last in relation to other donor countries in aid as a percentage of gross national product. The government has yet to meet the foreign aid goal, even though the goal is less than 1 percent of GNP. It has even failed to fully fund the Millennium Challenge Account, announced by the president at a 2002 U.N. conference to reduce poverty in developing nations.

If the generous people of this country knew the true facts, I doubt that U.S. foreign assistance would be outdone by other donor nations and the European Union.

Judy Butler
Spokane
Spokane, WA

spokesmanreview.com/news/letters.asp?date=011605&id=l24136

oops.
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Let’s see, the freedom of the Americas, the whole of Europe, sizeable portions of Asia, and now portions of the Middle East are due to American actions and the shedding of American blood–Handouts aren’t what America is primarily about, though if you notice who did the yeoman’s share of the work to help the tsunami victims it was the US, including its military and its citizens. America has been about creating the predicates and setting the environment for people in freedom to do for themselves. That is true compassion and not merely the sentiment of pity.
 
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swampfox:
the whole of Europe.
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Code:
Swampfox,

I have to bite here…don’t you think that if Russia wasn’t part of this war, no one would be the winner???

Don’t ya think that there were many other countries who also fought in this war…like Canada???

Have you any idea why you went to war in the first place…what was your motivation?

Is there enough humility in your statement to declare that it was your guys and million other guys who died in this war???

Why is there such arrogance, always, in all of these statements???

Would you not consider this offensive to all the other soldiers who have given up their lives for freedom???

I have a grandfather who fought in the war and a dad in the Korean war who was shot in his arm and left a big wound for the rest of his life…never mind the mental wounds…do you not think any of these people count for anything…or is it just the Americans that have saved the world???

sigh Pride goeth before the fall. The Romans were very proud also…and the Greeks, and the whatever…

:crying: Lord have mercy:crying:

Blessings,
Shoshana
 
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Shoshana:
Code:
Swampfox,

I have to bite here…don’t you think that if Russia wasn’t part of this war, no one would be the winner???

Don’t ya think that there were many other countries who also fought in this war…like Canada???

Have you any idea why you went to war in the first place…what was your motivation?

Is there enough humility in your statement to declare that it was your guys and million other guys who died in this war???

Why is there such arrogance, always, in all of these statements???

Would you not consider this offensive to all the other soldiers who have given up their lives for freedom???

I have a grandfather who fought in the war and a dad in the Korean war who was shot in his arm and left a big wound for the rest of his life…never mind the mental wounds…do you not think any of these people count for anything…or is it just the Americans that have saved the world???

sigh Pride goeth before the fall. The Romans were very proud also…and the Greeks, and the whatever…

:crying: Lord have mercy:crying:

Blessings,
Shoshana
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Re Russia, I trust you haven’t forgotten that it started the war by reason of its alliance with Germany and joint attack on Poland. No one has forgotten the contribution of others, including the Brits. the Australians, the Canadians and so many others, but to not recognize the primary role of the US is simply to deny reality. Those ole pre-same sex marriage Canadians indeed were a hardy breed.
By the way, how can anyone with full possession of his or her faculties and even casually observant of the last 90 years of human history, argue that Russia or its Soviet incarnation has contributed to the cause of freedom?
 
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Fitz:
I think this thread is meant to cause fights. . . .
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No, it was intended to find out whether you can see your own shadow. What the poll has disclosed is that most of you can’t.
 
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WhiteDove:
Yeah, that’s right!!! America is the best, man! It rocks and the rest of the world is mired in darkness, you know what I mean??? Truth, Justice, and the American Way of Life is what is right in the world!!!
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:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
 
walstan said:
U.S. aid ranks low
If one expects a small child to carry the same load as a football tackle, then the political cartoon (Jan. 8) showing Uncle Sam carrying the world with its foreign aid might have been accurate. While the generosity of the people of this country is exemplified in the multitude of gifts for tsunami relief, U.S. humanitarian foreign aid is much less than most of us think.

As a nation, the U.S. often places dead last in relation to other donor countries in aid as a percentage of gross national product. The government has yet to meet the foreign aid goal, even though the goal is less than 1 percent of GNP. It has even failed to fully fund the Millennium Challenge Account, announced by the president at a 2002 U.N. conference to reduce poverty in developing nations.

If the generous people of this country knew the true facts, I doubt that U.S. foreign assistance would be outdone by other donor nations and the European Union.

Judy Butler
Spokane
Spokane, WA

spokesmanreview.com/news/letters.asp?date=011605&id=l24136

oops.
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Some more facts for “the generous people of this country”:

suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn15.html

*Remember the tsunami? Big story, 300,000 dead; America and other rich countries too “stingy” in their response; government ministers from every capital on earth announcing on CNN every 10 minutes more and more millions and gazillions. It was in all the papers for a week or two, but not a lot of water under the bridge since then, and as a result this interesting statistic may not have caught your eye: *
*Five hundred containers, representing one-quarter of all aid sent to Sri Lanka since the tsunami hit on Dec. 26, are still sitting on the dock in Colombo, unclaimed or unprocessed. *

*At the Indonesian port of Medan, 1,500 containers of aid are still sitting on the dock. *

*Four months ago, did you chip in to the tsunami relief effort? Did your company? A Scottish subsidiary of the Body Shop donated a 40-foot container of “Lemon Squidgit” and other premium soap, which arrived at Medan in January and has languished there ever since because of "incomplete paperwork,’’ according to Indonesian customs officials. *

*Well, those soapy Scots were winging it – like so many of us, eager to help but too naive to understand that, no matter the scale of devastation visited upon a hapless developing nation, its obstructionist bureaucracy will emerge from the rubble unscathed. Yet, among the exhaustive examples of wasted Western generosity unearthed by the Financial Times, what struck me was not the free-lancers but the permanent floating **** game of international high-rollers who couldn’t penetrate the labyrinth of Indonesian paperwork. *

*Diageo sent eight 20-foot containers of drinking water via the Red Cross. “We sent it directly to the Red Cross in order to get around the red tape,” explained its Sydney office. It arrived in Medan in January and it’s still there. The Indonesian Red Cross lost the paperwork. *UNICEF, the U.N. children’s agency, sent 14 ambulances to Indonesia, and they took two months to clear customs. Terrible as it was in its awesome fury, the tsunami was in the end transnational business as usual.

Unbelievable. :mad: Read the whole thing.
 
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walstan:
That’s an interesting comment from a peace loving religion. Fruedian slip maybe?
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Peace through superior firepower.

But then, the Peace that is granted through Catholic belief doesn’t come from there anyway.
 
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romano:
Why are Americans universally despised today?

Because they put ketchup on their steaks.
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Maybe, if hamburgers count.

Note: A-1 Sauce isn’t ketchup.
Because they’re a bit too fond of dropping bombs on other folks.
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Don’t knock it 'til ya try it, bub.
Because they’re really great guys who just want to help.
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No good deed goes unpunished…
Because they believe in too many fairy-stories.
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Hey, just because you didn’t get a shiny quarter under your pillow when you were a kid, don’t take it out on us.
Because they think the universe ends at the US border.
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No, it’s more like “Thar be Dragons…”

-Marc
 
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