Why I DISLIKE America

I have been on the various political boards complaining about the Bush administration for several months. I have vented my anger about the genocide that the U.S. is committing in Iraq (incidentally, I REALLY had to stretch the meaning of that word to make it fit.)

But I haven't really achieved anything with all of my (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)ing...why?

I think the main reason is, at the end of the day I still have the same insecurity issues. I live in a European country that only has the GNP of a couple of U.S. states. Our economy is so shaky that God forbid the U.S. economy should ever fall apart because if it did, it would send such shock waves throughout the global markets that it would put us into the biggest recession we've ever seen. America has the best space program in the world, eight of the top ten Universities in the world and they make up about 25% of the total world economy. I know that my own country could be reduced to rubble overnight by any other country with a decent military who at whim decided they wanted to invade us, as we have no decent military of our own. Not to mention that my forefathers fought so poorly and surrendered so quickly that US troops had to spill their blood on our soil to bail us out.

It's ironic that my venting about the Iraq war really has absolutely nothing to do with Iraq at all. It has been merely a means for me to blow off steam about my own raging insecurity issues with the world's only super power. I never gave a (*)(*)(*)(*) about the Iraqi people while Saddam Hussein was killing them off by the thousands and I never cared about the abuses that went on at Abu Ghraib until the U.S. military became the new managers of it. Now SUDDENLY everytime an Iraq detainee gets so much as a hangnail from a U.S. soldier I'm absolutely OUTRAGED by it where I couldn't have cared less before. Everytime the U.S. military unintentionally kills civilians I make sure I post a thread about it here to condemn it, yet whenever an Iraqi "freedom fighter" straps a suicide bomb to himself and intentionally targets innocent civilians I'm strangely unconcerned.

Anyway, my theory is this; whenever an angry loser hears about a celebrity who's having problems, they usually will feel good about it because then they can ignore their own problems, point their finger at the celebrity and temperarily improve their self-esteem by pretending to be pompous, self-righteous and superior. I think it's the same about America. I can point my finger at them whenever I feel inferior and if the war in Iraq wasn't happening I would simply find something else about America to criticize. While I pretend to care about the Iraqi people, secretly I am elated whenever I read about another mass suicide bombing because I know this may lead to a bloody Iraqi civil war and more importantly; a U.S. defeat.

Someone suggested that perhaps I should look at the failures of my own life and that of my own country and try to work to correct those rather than pretending to be an intellectual while I blindly jump on a mindless bandwagon that blames the United States for all the ills in the world.

Nah, I don't think so. If blaming America for my own problems is good enough for certain world leaders then it's good enough for me as well.


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Did you write that? It's very interesting. I almost didn't read it because of the title. Amazing first post, wraith.

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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. - Theodore Roosevelt

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I've highlighted all of the issues which I think are important to understand about why people don't like America.



ROFL... I LOVE THIS COUNTRY!

EDIT: Ok... I read your post and I gotta say... very interesting.

I would recommend asking a mod to let you change the title... I only opened it to smack you around for it. If you'reexpecting the leftists to comment, they won't... it doesn't serve their agenda. Change it to "I LOVE AMERICA" and then just wait for the server to boil over...

Yeah are you just coming clean or did you find that someplace?

I do think there is an essence of truth in this post.

Although I myself am actually genuinely concerned about the fate of the innocent Iraqi people and have grave doubts as to the motives of your present administration, I think in Europe we do have some problems with you,re: the nature of which the poster mentioned.

I think we all know that if the US goes down the pan so to speak, we all probably will too. The health of our economies are extremely dependent on the health of yours. This makes us feel trapped and controlled by you, if you like.

Not only that, you deserve to be slated constantly for having such lovely, lovely teeth!

It is an idiotic post.

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America's Enemies Are Not Mine

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“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” - Stephen Roberts.

Apparently, it's smart enough to get you to bump it.

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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. - Theodore Roosevelt

im with you. its got its faults but its still the envey of the world. and many hate us for that. ive been on the other side of the world. seen how others live in their country. and frankly i could not wait to get home.

We do aim to please, don't we?

Thanks for this chain mail created by NeoComs.com. It is quite hilarious, I have to admit.