Posted on 07/06/2002 8:59:49 AM PDT by ginle
Sounds like this gal needs to get a new group of friends. These people have their heads up their arses.
Get a group of American lit students, photographers etc. together and you'll tend to find a huge amount of anti-Americanism, anti-Bushism and generally uninformed opinion, too.
The author is probably a nice lady, and she seems to at least support our President. However, I agree that she is doing a pitiful job of defending the U.S.
I'm currently living in Greece, the most anti U.S. of all NATO countries. Individually, I like most Greeks and they like most Americans (isn't it always that way). However, my Greek co-workers know better than to trash the U.S., and particularly President Bush, around me. I used to respond diplomatically, but not anymore. If they accuse the U.S. of killing innocent people in Afghanistan I respond that we haven't even begun. When 1,000 Muslim extremists have been killed for each innocent person killed at the WTC, then we will have made a good start. I say that with deadly seriousness and it usually shuts them up. I always make sure that my vigorous defense of the U.S. includes some viscious (but true) barbs headed in their direction. It's easy when you have 3,000 years of history in which to find incidents shameful to Greeks. I don't need to go any earlier than the start of the 20th century, but I do just to keep things interesting. If I really want to hit below the belt I point out that one of their heroes, Alexander the Great, was a homicidal queer who didn't unite Greece, but rather conquered it.
I hear very few anti-American comments from my Greek friends these days. I wonder why.
They are the descendants of the most oppressive empire since the Romans.
And pray tell, which countries have we enslaved?
The writer better grow a backbone. Otherwise, the sacrifice of those who gave their lives for the freedom the world enjoys now is diminished horribly.
We were in Ireland at the time and felt overwhelming sympathy and a strong sense of alliance with us. They recognize that America has been good to the Irish.
I think your equally positive experience in England, though, was probably provided courtesy of the older generation. The younger folks -- like so many worldwide -- are cynical and ill-informed. The western media can congratulate itself for a brainwashing job that Goebbels would have envied.
I'm certainly proud that you don't allow such comments to go unanswered.
She should have kicked their santimonious butts out the door instead of bowing down to them. Who needs friends like that? Those should just be mere acquaintances.
Have I missed something? Afganistan has oil ? I know we were thinking of putting a pipeline through the country but I didn't know they had oil.
I would tend to agree with you. We live part of the year in Thailand where to people are inclined to like Americans. When we were last there this past May, some friends said we should move and live there full time. When I asked why, the said that they understood from the newspapers that the USA had bombed their own buildings to get support for a war to take over the Mideast oil. They went on to say that they had read that a French book proved this. I then described just what I saw on 9/11,12,13,14. They accepted what I had to say as they had always been suspicious of Islamic propaganda but thought the Europeans to be usually accurate.
Interesting that those most inclined to like USA are questioning us. The quotes from our own left wing press do not help.
What do you expect from a bunch of people who think that Page Three girls, politicians openly having mistresses, open homosexuality, and unlimited abortion are the formula for a free society? So many Europeans have their priorities screwy. They think that being able to see a pair of jugs on the telly is the height of freedom, while all the while, they are handing over their lives to the government.
Second, why are you inviting these neanderthals with blood pudding for brains over?
What on Earth is an Alabama-style chocolate cake?!
I have a feeling that, normally, this gal writes those ubiquitous musings columns so prevalent among female columnists, detailing the events of her day, how hard it is to get a good seat on the bus/subway, why she can't find a good man who will do the dishes, scooping up her cat's poop, and on and on and on and on..............
Let's see if they like the tables turned, so to speak:
"You know, basically Adolph Hitler is right." I began to cry. "Great Britain oppresses every other country, and really exploits them just to get richer and, you know, crushes them if they try to stand up for themselves. Adolph Hitler was telling Great Britain to mind its own business; it needed to be told."
India conquered. Half of Africa subdued and Africans turned into slaves. Ireland conquered and the Irish massacred and trodden-upon. New Zealand Maoris slain. Australian Aborigines wiped out and all their lands stolen. The Carribean conquered; the local Indians wiped out and African slaves brought in to supply cheap labor so that members of Parliament and Lords could get rich. Constant war and meddling in European affairs. Yup, Great Britain deserved Hitler.
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