Originally posted by adraves reply to post by CherubBaby

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How many people on this site aren't native English speakers? The USA bashes Australia and the UK just as much. The news we see is very limited; it is picked and chosen for translation. Browse using Google translate for foreign forums/news. Go see for yourself. I feel it is mostly political.

Personally I think that most countries, and most people are more concerned about their own issues to hate the USA. The USA just gets looked down on because they get involved with just about everything. The USA makes itself a problem and target, instead of worry about its own citizens.

Originally posted by adraves
reply to post by Paulioetc15

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I feel these are more examples of political regimes crying out for help. The USA does not need to get involved, they choose to politically. Obviously, the average citizen does not want fighting, and does not know all the details. This does not mean, hoverer, that the USA should get involved. Unless it is absolutely required, military intervention only causes hatred from all citizens of both countries.

No, I do not think we can hear and know everything, but we can use the internet to see what others are saying. That was my real point. Go scour the internet that you never see and translate it.

Edit~You will not know what other countries are thinking if you can't understand the language.

edit on 5-9-2011 by adraves because: (no reason given)

Originally posted by FrenchOsage

When other countries refuse to commit more of their own troops, it's always us doing the darn work. Heck i can list plenty of crap when other countries always asked us to do the work. Hence Yugoslavia and Bosnia, UN and NATO asked us to take the lead. We didn't do just to show off our military strength. Also Europe is under U.S. protectionso they can spend on their own welfare. Research Robert Gates statement back in June 2011.

Your "darn work" is MURDER to some of us.
Keep your murderous inclinations out of my neighborhood. I do not think you are a Patriot...I think you are misguided at best and possibly a mercenary.
We do not need, nor want you to keep us "safe". Indeed I feel you have done more to endanger my family than anything in recent history.

Almost three months into the campaign of air strikes, Britain and its Nato allies no longer believe bombing alone will end the conflict in Libya, well-placed government officials have told the Guardian. Instead, they are pinning their hopes on the defection of Muammar Gaddafi's closest aides, or the Libyan leader's agreement to flee the country. "No one is envisaging a military victory," said one senior official who echoed Tuesday's warnings by Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope, head of the navy, that the bombing cannot continue much beyond the summer. Stanhope, whose comments caused fury in Downing Street, was expressing publicly what many senior defence officials say in private, officials made clear. The conflict is also straining relations between Washington and its European allies. Although few Nato countries are taking part in the air strikes, Europeans – including the British – are dismayed at the refusal by the US to deploy its low-flying A10 "tankbusters" and helicopters. The UK has deployed four Apaches, the French 12 attack helicopters. There are 150 other attack helicopters in Nato which can operate from ships but they all belong to the US Marine Corps, said Brigadier Benjamin Barry, senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).

Unless it is absolutely required, military intervention only causes hatred from all citizens of both countries.

You will not know what other countries are thinking if you can't understand the language

What did you mean by only in English? The internet is a powerful tool that will translate just about any language to read for ourselves. This includes newspapers and boards like this one. If you feel strongly for a topic, why not check out what is being said where the action is happening? It is only fair.

So can we agree a little? The USA does have interests in other countries, and those are the countries that the USA helps (for the most part). The citizens may not see or be told the reason, but there was, and always will be an alternative motive; it is human nature after all

Originally posted by Taupin Desciple
reply to post by Paulioetc15

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Has it ever dawned on people like you that if we would simply butt out of other countries' business that we wouldn't have foreign intersts to pprotect in the first place?

Has it ever dawned on people like you that while Japan is one of the MAJOR world players, they don't have the problems we do because the only reason they have a military is to protect their own boders?

Has it ever dawned on people like you that maybe.......just maybe, we make problems overseas so we can come in like a knight in shining armour and save the day?

We're only 235 years old, but people think that the whole world would go down the #ter if we didn't exist.

The world did just fine for thousands of years without an American government, and would do even better now without one IMO.

Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
reply to post by CherubBaby

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Nope.. well maybe our govt., but American people are loved most of the world over.
If you go to Europe people will be love you. French people even love us Americans while so many brainwashed Americans dis the French for no reason.