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To: SirRealist who wrote (17438)	1/28/2002 5:12:29 PM
From: AlienTech	Read Replies (4) of 281500

>>Lots of countries do not want to advance to minimum thresholds of civilized behavior.<< Dont you think this is relative? After all what is civilized behaviour. The US is just 200 years old and went through slavery which was banned in most parts of the world thousands of years ago. Other parts of the world Had women who were treated equal to men in rights which the US did not have until the 60's. In fact most asian countries have WOMEN prime ministers and presidents while the US is anal retentive about a NON-WHITE in the white house let alone a woman. In the grand schemen of things, US and western civilization is very young. And they should not be judging others on how they currently are. But lets stop here for a second.. In which other country would a company like Enron, Exodus, Global crozzing , mcleoid, xoxo etc be able to totally unscrupliously rape their investors with impunity!!!! Only in the US would this be considered civilized behaviour!! >> Message #17439 from SirRealist at Jan 28, 2002 2:04 PM Americans don't seem to understand that everyone does not want to be like Americans. It's one of our uglier qualities.<<< Nah. I think we understand it pretty well. Lots of countries do not want to advance to minimum thresholds of civilized behavior. If they'd not attack others, we could ignore them and we would not seem so ugly. And considering the inventions the Palestinians have contributed to the world - airplane hijackings - I think being ugly is preferable to being dead. << Not true at all! The US has always taken what it wanted. It takes time because they have to appear like they are not. In fact in the WSJ there was an article about how the US should annex Saudi Arabia and administer it for the benefit of of man IE benefit of the US since others are not really part of mankind. In fact the US itself is a contradition on that statement since I am sure native indians would be just so glad to live in reservations in conditions like afganistan because they are so hmmm generous! The palestinians might not be right just like the other terrorists, but until very recently the US was the biggest backer or terrorism in the world. With Saudi arabia being a close second. Funding 2.5 billion dollars (matched by another 2.5 bil by saudi arabia) into afganistan each year to fund militia groups in their fight against communism would be considered a terrorist activity by the USSR especially considering the US supplied what FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND stinger missiles? Too bad the russians did not find out that they were really fighting the US until after they left. In the UN world court nicaguaria actually got an injunction against the US to stop and desist terrorist activities against their country!!! I dont have too much time to post or correct things, But the height of things was some former advisor to clinton who proudly broadcasted to the world how the 4.5 bil in aid the US was giving afganistan would be better served by giving it to new york. The US is giving 280 million. Japan and Iran is giving 500 million each. And how america lost soldiers for UN peace keeping duties and other countries should take up those burdens etc etc etc. But Other countries do loose a lot of soldiers in UN peace keeping duties! One of the largest was the indian contingent that went to ceylon/sri lanka where over a 1000 soldiers died. The US has a lot to be proud off! But taking credit for everything good and blaming others for all the bad is also one of it.

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