Posted on 10/02/2002 7:15:37 PM PDT by UnBlinkingEye
What has happened to our image as a beacon of freedom, opportunity and the right way to live?
Much of the world fears or hates us. We have a proclaimed policy of attacking any country whose policies or regimes don't follow our dictates.
Why have we become the biggest bully in the world?
So I guess your "Communism" is the way to go?
So you are saying we should be attacking Saudi Arabia?
The worst of the US is better than the best the rest of the world has to offer. That just eats you alive, doesn't it?
I overstated this, our new policy seems to be pre-emptive strikes against potential threats. I prefer deterence.
You: Why does it make you feel better to hate your own country so much?
I don't hate America, but I don't care for our foreign policy and ever growing government.
As for the "asian" peoples, that was an almost bloodless colonization........Finland was taken from Sweden in a war that Sweden began. Sorry, try harder.
It seems, Stavka, that you can dish it out but you can't take it.
You come to America, you post to a Forum filled with American military veterans and you then excoriate America for everything from the War of 1812 to the Boxer Rebellion.
However, when I list Russia's own enlightened military past you get outraged.
If American participated in the Boxer Rebellion action to protect Westerners in China, that is imposing America's will on China. If Russia participated to a much greater extent in the very same military action, including the occupation of Manchuria, then pointing out that historical fact is "racist crap".
If America colonized it's frontier, that is bad. If Russia colonized it's frontier it was "almost bloodless" and justifiable.
If Russia attacked Finnland in November 1939 after Finnland refused to grant Russia a naval base, somehow that becomes Sweden's fault.
By the way, Stavka, since you are Russian, I presume that the skin over your glutteous maximus is just as white as mine is so pulling out the "Race Card" ala Jessee Jackson won't score you any points. Unlike 1930's Germany, America does not consider Russians as "russische untermenchen" belonging to some allegedly inferior race.
You obviously have a great hatred of "Western" society. Even the ideology that Russia embraced since 1917 and many Russians still embrace today is blamed solely on "Western Intellectuals" as if Russia were a helpless and mentally-challanged giant that is powerless to reject such an obviously flawed ideology just because it was produced by a "Western Intellectual" named Karl Marx that would have gone down as a footnote in History if Russia had not adopted him as an ideological God.
Given your obvious hatred of all things "Western", why are you in America living among those you hate so deeply?
We now have a policy of pre-emptive strikes against potential threats. Don't you think this might lead to equivalent policies by other nations? Perhaps even against us?
"Everyone watches American movies, everyone listens to American pop songs, everyone watches American TV - and everyone hates America." - Mark Steyn, observation on the influence of Oliver Stone and American "propagandists" after traveling through the Middle East and Europe. AEI: "State of World Cultures" conference, May 8, 2002.
So then what is your "culture" and what are your "life experiences" which give you this "in the black" morality? Tell me that, and I can better consider your remarks.
(I will be surprised that anybody can be "neutral.")
Yes, it might. This is obviously a potentially dangerous 2-edged sword that must be used wisely.
The wisdom of a course of action or inaction is often determined with 20/20 hindsight. A pre-emptive strike against Germany in 1935 when Hitler renounced the Versaille Treaty and declared Nazi Germany's intention to re-arm would have saved 40 million lives in the 1940's. On the flip side, the use of the claim "pre-emptive strike in self defense" can be abused to justify just about any military adventure.
Each case much be honestly debated on it's own merits as blanket rules seldom apply in the Real World.
The poster asked where he could find STAVKA "in America".
You will not find the actual STAVKA "in America" any more than you will find the Pentagon "in Russia".
Every one of the problems you described could be resolved within half a decade if we could just eliminate socialism. And if we didn't have to endure the petty hatreds and jealousies our our inferiors.
Not a civilized country in the world has done a better job of protecting its interests than this one. The world is ours for the taking. And it would be the better for it.
Wouldn't the rat factory be in the Massachusetts sewer, the home of Teddy boy?
Every one of the problems you described could be resolved within half a decade if we could just eliminate socialism. And if we didn't have to endure the petty hatreds and jealousies our our inferiors.
I thought all men were created equal. Who are you calling inferior?
Not a civilized country in the world has done a better job of protecting its interests than this one. The world is ours for the taking. And it would be the better for it.
You're a real piece of work. Racist, imperialist, holier than thou opinions.
Wouldn't the rat factory be in the Massachusetts sewer, the home of Teddy boy?
Every one of the problems you described could be resolved within half a decade if we could just eliminate socialism. And if we didn't have to endure the petty hatreds and jealousies our our inferiors.
I thought all men were created equal. Who are you calling inferior?
Not a civilized country in the world has done a better job of protecting its interests than this one. The world is ours for the taking. And it would be the better for it.
You're a real piece of work. Racist, imperialist, holier than thou opinions.
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