Man...this country drives me crazy

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Originally posted by spoogenet
I've noticed similar problems.

I, for one, am against the current conflict in Iraq and was against the actions in Afghanistan.

Back in the day when I made comments that us bombing Afghanistan was a big mistake and shouldn't be done I was called no less than a terrorist, a terrorist sympathizer, an un-American idiot, the list goes on. All for merely stating that I personally felt that we were doing more harm to America than good. Now how could that possibly be unpatriotic to feel that American leadership is harming the American people?

I got the same thing. Not here, but elsewhere. There's just too many people who can't comprehend the idea of tolerance and individuality. No, you should not tolerate aggression towards you or your community/nation. You should, however, tolerate other's opinions that are contrary to your own. When we were attacked a year and a half ago, I sympathized with those who died but also criticized our government for causing a great deal of the sentiment that breeds hate strong enough to cause the deaths of 3000 innocents. Does that make such an action ok? Absolutely not. But we live in an unacceptably ethnocentric country. We ignore a large majority of the rest of the world and our foreign policies are so ignorant that it's not a huge suprise that people everywhere dislike us as a culture. As Bill Maher said a while back, they hate us because we don't even know why they hate us. I won't play armchair general...I honestly don't see a whole lot of viable alternatives to the main objective of ousting Saddam one way or another. But I'm getting sick of this "say one thing do another" bullshit.

I think when this is all over we should see if we can't get France and Russia kicked out of the UN and the EU. Russia has already stabbed us in the back and France...well...France is just full of cheese eating surrender monkeys. Hell hath no fury like a redneck bumpkin president scorned.