Actually I picked those questions because they go to the root of why so many people around the world do not see America as a benign force.
Funny that, of all places, the vast majority of the oppressed, poor, and dispossessed dream of coming here. Hell, they'll get into shark-infested waters on a piece of lumber hoping the Gulf Stream will somehow wash them up on our shores.
Horrible place, America.
Absolutely amazing, incredible, in my view, that a nation which is not picture perfect but is head and shoulders above all the rest of the tyrants, is continually castigated, demeaned, and, yes, hated, by foreigners and its own citizens alike when in point of fact our standards are so much higher than those of the critics that the comparison is really no comparison at all.
I hear incredible BS about America being the premier terrorist state and wonder why is it that anyone who honestly thinks such a thing live here?
If I somehow was unlucky enough to have lived in Iraq during the Saddam years, a country which according to the standards expressed here was better than the US, you can bet that all of my efforts would have been geared to leaving.
The stench of hypocrisy permeates the notion. |
