>>>I am angry because the appeasers live in a dream world, where there are no bad guys.<<<
I don't know how you can call centuries of conventional wars and living decades under the threat of nuclear nuclear destruction a dream state. If the 60s generation proved anything, it's that the generations born after them would live in a new kind of fear: A fear there would be no tomorrow.
I consider this this kind of fear a founded one, unlike the fear notion that we have to go to war against Iraq because of the actions of some other entity and in a misplaced fear Iraq might do something against us. Indeed, the act we're threatening to perpetrate against them, in terms of deaths of innocents, if this means anything (I think it does), will likely far outnumber and outweigh anything which could be done against us.
If we're going to live in an imbalanced world where only a certain portion of societies feel the pain of impoverishment, malnutrition, disease and environmental distress, while the resources from their lands are literally taken from them or their cheap labor exploited, then we, as a society, should have the courage to expect some consequences. And war is the worst consequence of all, a condition where everyone becomes victimized. What would take more courage is to actually use the technologies of today and break down some of those imbalances that breed so much anger and hatred toward America.
>>>I am angry for all those that have lost their lives, or limbs, fighting for our freedom, only to have appeasers, like those on this thread, trample our flag.<<<
I'm afraid the freedom once fought for ain't the same today, as it once was in the past. Based on this war's reporting we can't even trust our own mainstream media. Most famlies have two working parents, they're living in debt and pretty much indoctrinated by the marketing powers of television. More than 40 million Americans don't have health care, lots more have inadequate insurance coverage and if a family member gets stick, well, more debt.
Meanwhile, it got to a point where California has spent more money on prisons than schools, and America puts more people in jail per capita than any industrialized nation in the world. We have a drug war where folks are apprehended criminally instead of treated medically in a society where drugs can't even be kept out of prisons, never mind a supposed free society. We also lead in executing people.
And now comes the condition of terrorism, the fear, the downhome terror, that has gripped us such that more and more people staying in their homes, some of 'em even resorting to walling their rooms in duct tape and standing in long inner city gas mask lines. That profiling of some members of our society is rampant is an understatment.
>>>I am angry for all of the dead and wounded Jews, victims of 60 years of terrorism, while most appeasers ONLY listen to the terrorist point of view.<<<
You're not alone. The folks who've lived, suffered and died under the rule of those mentioned below (please do click the country name links) weren't and aren't happy campers either. That most of these deaths happened so that developed nations, America a leading one, could come in and rape the lands of these nations for timber, oil, diamonds, copper, silve and gold is an understatment. Although many of the dictators are gone, why still are many of these nations impoverished? Are the world leaders really lame on ideas? Or are they opportunistic?
>>>I am angry over the world, and the UN, repeatedly turning it's back on mass murder, whether it be in Rwanda or Kosovo, or Bosnia, or North Korea. And of course, the UN is now turning it's back on Iraq.<<<
I was absolutely shocked that the greatest criticism issue America's GOPside base could find against Clinton had something to do with Monica or Paula or some other beat unimportant issue--this while Rwandans were slaughtered in very great numbers. Yes, we were late to the table of helping to stop the ethnic cleansing and the UN could have played a greater role.
Perhaps this is a prime time to examine how the United Nations is structured and maybe a self-critiqing time is upon us. But as the UN body has never been the Soviet Union's or America's pawn in the past, neither is it America's pawn today.
Thinking and feelings count, there are vast numbers of issues that require cooperation and a world assembly is definitely needed for our future. How to make it better is the question.
>>>I am angry over the appeasement protesters, who enjoy their freedom of speech, while there are so many people suffering, in part, because of the influence of the protests.<<<
On this point, I don't think there's much need to elaborate except to say you should reexamine how you feel on this. In plain speak, what you say is simply not true. |
