“People who think like you do - who don’t recognize the importance of ideals and values and their enshrinement in traditions - are one of the reasons our own country is going to hell.”
I am going to give to you a short history lesson and I promise to make it as short as possible:
How much haughtiness and arrogance is required for a nation of people to put the word, “Great” in their name?
Most of the nations of the world hate the U.S.A. and Great Bitchin’. I’ll try to explain why that is:
01. ) We had to run them out of our country TWICE!
02. ) Then, if that wasn’t enough, we had to bail them out TWICE!
03. ) Then we had to bail them out of the Falklands.
There have been diplomatic and political blunders throughout history but THE biggest blunder of all time is when we STILL agreed to be chummy with them.
04. ) They have been run out of almost every country in Africa.
05. ) They have been run out of China.
06. ) They have been run out of the Middle East thanks to T. E. Lawrence and his blunder/s in Iraq.
07. ) They have been run out of India.
08. ) They have been run out of most countries in Southeast Asia.
They are STILL trying to tell us how to run our country!
Among other things. they are the reasons why most of the rest of the world hate Great Bitchin’ and because we are so chummy with them that is why they hate us.
If we were to cut all ties with Great Bitchin’ and while it would take some time, the rest of the world would soften their hatred of us and eventually come to like us.
Ideals, values, and traditions are in the heart, not in Great Bitchin’.
Are you aware that they still refer to us as ‘defiant colonists,’ and still look down their noses at us?
I do not think that you have ever traveled to Europe. If you had then you would have adopted my attitude, also. I can assure you that they are THE most haughty, arrogant peoples on the planet.
As an aside which is totally unrelated to all of the above, every time I hear some subject of Great Bitchin’ say, “Across the pond,” I would like to wring his neck. ;-)
If all or some of the above does not sway you then you may be delusional or simply do not want to wake up to the truth.
I only had to read three lines to know that I have no time for you.
Go ‘educate’ someone else.
Thanks, because I am truly shocked at the number of FReepers who are clueless about what we fought every war for. Not to colonize, but to be free and free others.
All this, and 250 years later there are more nations that would rather have us on their side than have us against them.
No country in the history of the World has shed so much of it's own blood to free and defend those from nations around the World. I truly cannot come up with one time England did it.
Oh some will say WWI and WWII, but they went to war each time, because they knew they had no choice or they would be attacked.
I am an American, and I do not bow down to any king or queen, especially one we kicked out twice. Only leftist idiots like Obama and Biden do such things.
One more thing to add to the dislike for them, they would have sided with the South in the Civil war to divide us for an easier defeat down the road if it wasn't for the fact that Lincoln brilliantly freed the slaves to make slavery the issue instead of states rights. Once it became about slavery, England had to decline Jefferson Davis's plea for their help.