Posted on 06/24/2008 9:07:35 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady
The Democrats have been saying for some time that Barack Obama will restore our reputation in the eyes of the world, and I have been wracking my brain trying to figure out what went wrong in the first place.
The world hates us. We know this, because our own media inform us of it regularly through polls, editorials, and documentaries. Because of our actions, our policies, over the years, we have built up a reservoir of resentment worldwide that only Obama can sooth.
You know, I think they are right. Let's look at the sins we've committed with an eye toward helping our next president, whoever it may be, to regain our popularity in the world.
Most of the complaints have to do with the American reaction to problems overseas. Should America get involved, and in what capacity? From my observations, we have clearly blundered many times, causing them to hate us.
For instance, sometimes we simply stay out of it (Rwanda). We don't help anyone, saying it's none of our business, and many die. So the world hates us for our apathy and selfishness.
Other times we try to get involved in things that are clearly none of our business, being the "policemen of the world" (Somalia), so they hate us.
Sometimes we do get involved and help fight off a foreign enemy, but then we withdraw quickly, leaving a void that might be filled by God-knows-what kind of psychotic regime (Afghanistan). We fail to fulfill our responsibility to finish what we started and help repair the mess. So they hate us.
Other times we DO stay to help repair the mess (Iraq) and are then seen as occupiers. So they hate us.
They hate us if we embargo our enemies (Cuba) and they hate us if we send financial aid (North Korea.)
They hate us if we try to broker peace (Palestinians) and they hate us if we stay out of it (Darfur).
They hate us if we go to the U.N. (Iraq) and they hate us if we don't. (Bosnia).
They hate us when we win (Japan) and they hate us when we lose (Vietnam).
They hate us if we stand up to them (Iran) and they hate us if we mostly ignore them (Venezuela).
They hate us if we trade with them (Mexico), they hate us if we save them (Kuwait, France), they hate us if we rebuild them (Germany), they hate us if we give them special favors (China), and they hate us when we protect them (Canada).
So if we wish to be loved by the rest of the world, it's really very simple. The only way to make them happy... is to blow ourselves up. Now, that seems like a last-resort approach, but I say, if that's what it takes, then by all means, we should do it.
I only have one request: I say we take the rest of the world with us. They deserve it.
...You are correct on every point...But have no fear, the Obamanation will save us all.
It’s just MSM and the Left that pushes that nonsense. I.e. it is a propaganda that has no foundation in reality.
I hope that vent helped you. Reading the essay made me want to pack my bags, return home and shut the door.
Wouldn’t mind seeing the U.S. take a brief rest from playing U.N. military force, protector, advisor, employer, etc., and take care of our own for a few years.
Never happen of course.
“Hate ‘em back! Works for me.”
They hate us because we are the world’s principle superpower and have influence over them. But let the Iranians start lobbing nukes and see who they turn to for a solution.
I don't think the world hates us ... I think some world leaders and politico's envy us so much, they react by hating us .. and misinform, or prevent information about the USA that keeps the people of the world from knowing us.
My guess is that the state controlled media in other countries hates us because we are the best contrast to their failed collectivist policies - the last bastion of individual freedom - although we haven't been doing too well in that department lately!
I wonder, under President Obama, will America become the country that no one wants to immigrate to anymore?
Carlin said this country is the best we have done so far. Like it or not, there is nothing better or even close.
I have traveled overseas a few times - never met anyone that hates Americans. Most people take you as you are.
Could it be that it’s the worldwide MSM and the folks behind it, including those in the US, that hate America? Nah.
If they hate us, why are they electing new leaders that are more aligned with the US than the leaders that they replaced?
Merkel - Germany
Harper - Canada
Sarkozy - France
I’m not sure what is really being measured. Surveys are tools of distortion.
So, they are used to portray us however...
So, don’t let yourself be manipulated by their distortions.
The interesting thing is this: When I was in Paris, England and Scotland in the fall, no one acted with disdain towards me or towards my wife.
Admittedly, I tried to speak French when in France, and savored the British and Scottish customs when there, and even discussed politics with some of the locals.
Perhaps, with the press, it is like Iraq. When a bomb blows up put it on the front page, but when violence is at a four year low, bury it on page 34....
Travel the world and then see if it’s worth giving a rat’s sack what it thinks of us. I can count on one hand the number of countries worth a damn and as it turns out they dont hate us.
Good rant.
The real problem is that anybody cares what “the world” thinks about the USA.
I know I sure don’t give the slightest rat’s behind what “the world” thinks.
They can all friggin drop dead as far as I’m concerned.
(Of course, when the Democrats and other scumbags refer to “the world”, what they really mean is fidgety, college-aged children of old Europe and that handful of loud socialists who control the socialist “mainstream” press.)
It’s not hate, it’s envy.
There are two reasons they hate us -
we are really free and we are are wealthy.
Jealousy is an overriding human emotion.
If it really looks like Obama is going to win, I propose we rain on his parade by nominating him as the GOP candidate. Then he'll win but his far-left buddies, the press and the international chattering classes will all hate him!
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