A counterview:
Anyone can do the “what if” game and come up with any number of great reasons why we are the saviors of the world just because “we” exist…….Yippy and Yahoo!
I do think that American’s do tend to get a bit too cocky and arrogant. I also believe that when we present ourselves to the world with facts and reasons for wars and actions that end up being lies, we need to be big enough to at least acknowledge the fact instead of continuing to be the idiots we tend to be. I have no qualm with a highly educated president that is probably one of the best orators of all times smoothing things over in the opinions of the world. Like they say, you get more flies with honey than vinegar. If the world likes Obama, it just makes future relations and even travel abroad for our citizens even easier.
--Name withheld.
My response:
It’s an innate fact that this world is governed by aggression and force. The most powerful nation sets the rules for the entire world. Many candidates have arisen over history. All of them tyrannical, spreading misery and violence without remorse. Then came the United States of America. Missteps and mistakes have been made for sure but what nation would you rather have in charge? Saudi Arabia, where you can be executed for adultery and women cannot drive? One of the European nations? They spend so much on social crap they would not even be able to afford a proper army to defend themselves. Want to give communism or Nazism another try? Could Americans be nicer as tourists? Perhaps, but I have lived in Europe and Americans do not hold a candle to the rudeness of the German or French cultures. But the world has a bigger problem. Our largesse has bread a welfare mentality where, instead of being grateful, the world is jealous. They treat us with the distain that a four-year old has for an older sibling that just got a new toy truck and wants it for himself. We try to teach them how to go out and earn one for themselves, but they will not hear of it. We see the same mentality in our own welfare class in which the “rich” are endless robbed of the fruits of their labors and instead having a national day of thanks for their generosity, they are reviled while one of the major political parties in this country fans the flames of envy.
The Middle East in particular has an overinflated sense of itself. It languishes under ruthless, dictatorial regimes, hoping Allah will one day do what they have failed to do, wipe Israel off the map. Then everything will be alright. Obama’s words of honey mollify their consciences as they justify jihad. His words will not change their behavior but they do offend our staunchest ally in the region, Israel, once the only democracy in the Middle East. Someday when Afghanistan and Iraq have done the hard work to produce “toy trucks” of their own, Islamic peoples will realize that Muslim nations can coexist with Israel without suffering under tyrants. This, not from sweet words read from a teleprompter, but born of a “lying” war.
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009253657_charity23.html
http://mediamatters.org/research/200501040003
Couple of links for you to review. America is not the savior of the world (I actually worship a middle eastern peasant). However, I understand much of what you are saying, and we should be rightfully proud of our country for the good things it does. But we should not allow our love for country to blind us when things are not as good as they could be.
President Obama has NOT been on a worldwide apology tour. What he is saying only sounds like an apology to those of us who are now conditioned to the GWB worldview of America is always right because we are . . . well, America.
You asked about Europe, and whether it would be here without the U.S. Would the U.S. be here without Europe? There is no Yorktown victory without the French fleet to bottle up the harbor. There is no nascent U.S. treasury without the early bank bailout from the Dutch.
You could make the same argument, of course, about Russia. Would there be a Europe without Russia? Would D-day have ever happened if the Eastern Front didn't siphon off Germany's resources? Of course not, but no one would suggest that Russia is or was the pinnacle of moral or ethical righteousness.
In other words, and I say this with all the gentleness I can muster: the facts don't support your post - only your feelings of self-righteousness do. Granted, you've got the right to post such stuff, but you only reinforce the very stereotypes about America that you decry.
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