Posted on 11/04/2008 12:50:23 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
BERLIN (AP) — The world was riveted by the election drama unfolding Tuesday in the United States, inspired by Barack Obama or simply relieved that — whoever wins — the Bush administration was coming to an end.
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I’ve never understood the “arrogant” argument.
The U.S. spends vast resources and blood to free millions and rid the world of threats and murderous dictators...and were “arrogant” because we do it without the permission of the leftists/communists of the world.
If you ask me, it’s the pansy European socialists that are arrogant. But don’t worry Europe. I’m sure we’ll bail you out yet again when the next world war comes along. Idiots.
You guys can all learn how to solve your own political and economic problems and we will be ‘less arrogant’. DEAL!!!!!
We should try to be more sincere and double our efforts to send our good thoughts and best wishes to the rest of the world. Then we might reap what we sow.
/sarc
They’re right. The United States of America is far too humble a nation to presume to house and fund such a grand and glorious institution as the United Nations.
They should leave right away.
Would it be OK if we promised not to meddle in anymore famines, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, plagues, genocides and the like? I mean, how presumptuous of us to think we can or should be running all around the world picking up after everyone.
/sarc
I hate the rest of the world...we are much better than them in almost all categories.
Red-faced and guilty.
Hey Euroweenies...We’re better than you!
Whatever it is we did, this article assures me that it was the right thing, and that we should do more of it.
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Europe wants to call the shots while the US does their bidding, military, economic, financial, culturally, and otherwise. We’re also to acknowledge that we’re inferior in every way. Know our place and stay there. Kerry can hardly wait to be the water boy for Berlin and Paris.
Given the outlandishness of the article, I can see where you’d be distracted. :)
I’ll not fight for my country if these people are in charge. At least not until the enemy kills all the liberals. Then I’ll come out of hiding and fight for my principles.
But this is what really ticked me off: The Bush administration alienated Muslims by mistreating prisoners at its detention center for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and inmates at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.... "I hope Obama wins (because) of the need of the world to see the U.S. represent a more cosmopolitan or universal political attitude," said Rais Yatim, the foreign minister of mostly Muslim Malaysia."
First, Gitmo and Abu Ghraib did not occur in a vacuum, they were an indirect result of 9/11 which these Islamic jerks conveniently forgot. And I certainly hope that our cosmopolitan and universal political attitude results in our ceasing to hand over the billions in foreign aid Malaysia receives each year courtesy of the American taxpayer. But I am not holding my breath. I predict we will be humiliated AND bled dry. But the world will find new love and respect for America.
Don’t call us anymore. Fight your own battles.
Well, “the world”, which seems not to like George W. Bush very much, cannot or will not look at the Bush Administration objectively. As an example of American power projected upon the world, Bush has been much more positive, in many different ways, than the Carter administration, and WAY better for the general welfare of the world, than the Clinton regime ever was.
That is the duty of Presidents, to tend to the daily and long-range prospects of maintaining a balance between the forces of malevolence, and the means to keep them at bay and under control. Carter allowed what were some relatively well-controlled and contained eruptions and disturbances to unfold into a new and vastly more dangerous cancer on the Middle East. Clinton, for his part, took advantage of the capability to ‘kick the can down the road’, never engaging with the real problems, but shuffling them under the rug, while he served as ‘Prom King’ for eight years. When these deferred maintenance items came due for serious attention, they stood up like a grizzly bear and reached high with unbridled fury. Sure, both Carter and Clinton were ‘popular’ with this elusive and somewhat faceless “world”, but the “world” did not live here in the United States.
All in all, while he missed a few strokes along the way, George W. Bush has discharged the duties of his office in a responsible and relatively successful manner. Those misses that could be attributed to his watch, were most often in trying to adopt the ‘popular’ position, not the right course. For one thing, he ‘went along’ a LOT of times, rather than exercising the veto pen when it would have done some really effective trimming and balancing in the national interests. But he did exert some very effective diplomatic, economic and military pressure in several situations, starting with the Chinese seizure of a US electronic surveillance aircraft in April 2001, and stood tall during and after the events on September 11, 2001. Most importantly of all, he listened to the best advice from his Cabinet and their various agencies out in the field, and acted decisively on that advice. That the ‘best advice’ turned out, in some circumstances, to be based on incomplete knowledge and erroneous assumptions, is one of the hazards of power, but this is a long football game without a final score, with a changing corps of players and coaches, played before spectators that vary between hostile, to bored and indifferent, or what turns out at times to be only a very small crowd of admirers and enthusiastic supporters.
I have been around this old world a few times and have not seen anyone as arrogant as the Brits, French and Germans. The world can just kiss my American a$$.
NO MORE BAILOUTS. None for the banks and especially none for the Euroweenies! We’ve done it twice and provided an umbrella for 50+ years. Were done with you socialist twits!
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