Posted on 01/21/2003 12:11:43 PM PST by Uncle Burt
However saying that we have to decrease our standard of living because we're going to run out of raw materials is an old argument from the left. Paul Ehrlich and others have made that argument many years previously. I believed them at the time, and they turned out to be incredibly wrong. So I don't believe arguments from the left about anything anymore, although I will concede anyone can be right occasionally about some things. I think wise management of resources and trust in the inventive ability of people is better than pessimism.
A better question would be "why we would care weather they like us ot not?" Would'nt it? Were still feeding the world and they hate us .
When theres a disaster were there to help clean up.
When theres oppression were there to squash it.
When theres an emergency were there to fight it .
Were a shoulder to cry on a crutch to lean on in times of need and yet most are UNGRATFUL for what we do
But on the other hand if we stop doing all those great things we do then were the ones who get labeled stingy uncaring and evil ......OH sure theres other countries out there that give the way we do but for the life of me i cant remember who or which ones they are .
Why are we hated ? I think were a vehicle for hate not people in general or any specific government office but the IDEA of FREEDOM is the vehicle I think freedom in and of itself is fair but the way its played out in other contries is not the freedoms government gives those respected countries is restricted to the point that freedom is just a word but not enacted whereas freedom to us is lived out everyday anyway we choose to live it so why they hate us is a vehicle for jealousy from other countries and a jealous country or person can portray that hatred in many ways and them hating us is just one way to vent their frustration over the inadequate ways of their restrictive governments and the way they are forced to live.
Then again maybe im all wrong.
PUNK
Your anti-Bush rants have no basis in fact. You echo the words of appeasement from Germany's spineless socialist leader. Such assertions are worthless and appear to support one of the world's worst dictators since Hitler--Saddam Hussein.
Have the Germans learned yet the ultimate fate of militaristic dictators who exerted complete control over their populace? History tells us that very situation occured in Europe though a dictator's use of all-out war, terror and state-sponsored death to his opponents. Millions of unfortunates belonging to certain ethnic groups were eliminated. In those unhappy days, it took the armies of many allies to defeat that hateful dictatorship. Was that a good thing then?
Saddam has used the same tactics against his enemies (Iran, the Shiites and the Kurds) and has waged war on Kuwait. He also has WMD and would use them immediately if we were not opposing him now. Why is that that hard to understand?
Wolfowitz has no business pushing this country into a belligerent arrogant stance. That by itself pushes other nations to resent us. It is natural for people to resent the rich and powerful, Wolfowitz is rubbing everybody’s nose in it. A worldwide sense of goodwill toward the US has been wasted, and converted to resentments, simply because Wolfowitz, and the neocons in the Bush administration chose to project their arrogance then working with Mr. Powel, and the diplomats. On the world stage, nations have dignity, and demand respect through consultations. Wolfowitz, Bill Kristol, Richard Perle, Ken Adelman were behind marginalizing Mr. Powel.
Again, the head lines in the French newspapers on 10/11/01 said “We are ALL Americans”. Most of the world capitals showed spontaneous sympathy with us, and till today, the European government are constantly raiding Islamic centers and sleeping cells of Moslem terrorists. How do you imagine the reaction of the German or the French people who are working hard to arresting the Moslem terrorists, and in return find out that they are being called insulting names by us. That should explain the reasons for the resentment. Our European friends don’t hate us, they were made to resent us by Mr. Wolfowitz, and the militant neocons.
When we bombed Afghanistan we did not have any opposition. Also, if we wanted to bomb Saudi Arabia, the source of funds and ideologies we probably will have no opposition. The current opposition is basically because there are no evidences on Iraq, and the way we are treating the UN, and other countries on the Security Council. Let Secretary Powel shmooz the diplomats, it works all the time.
Don't Care if Cowards in the leadership of GERMANY and FRANCE disapprove, that's just too bad.
Your argument is really SILLY.
We do have PROOF of MWD.
The Euros had provided ASSISTANCE to SADDAM to develop MWD.
Euros are afraid we will make that CRYSTAL CLEAR when we inspect IRAQ with AMERICAN BOOTS on the GROUND and I am not talking about UN Inspectors.
Wolfowitz is right to RUB THEIR NOSES.
Lived in Europe for 3 years, know their GREEN, Socialist, appeasing traits FIRST HAND.
EUROPEAN IDEAS, and Policies, are not new, not original, they are tired, and they love to repeat history with more appeasement.
The FRENCH and GERMANS love to help dictators with their technolodgy problems.
Had the French and Brits acted aggressively against Hitler when he took over the Rhineland, he and his party may have been history. France and England didn't and look what happened.
How much evidence ofr WMD do you want? Do you actually believe the few inspectors will be able to turn up such evidence in a country the size of Iraq in a limited time frame when the Iraqis have had all the time they need to hide WMD? If you believe this is feasible, you are naive in the extreme.
Saddam is reported to have threatened death to his scientists and their families if they are interviewed privately by the inspectors. Is that not enough yet to convince anyone that he is not cooperating? He never has cooperated with any inspectors in the past 12 years or now. What other options are there? How do you enforce peace? The UN is powerless as is most of Europe some of whose countries are doing all they can to make it easy for Saddam to avoid destruction.
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