reply to post by sonnny1
Hi friend!!
I'm an Englishman, and have already addressed this anti-US matter on another thread I found on ATS, "Are Most Americans Crazy, or What?"
Now that wasn't my thread-- lets be clear-- so given I've only been on ATS for about a week, I argued my view that no, American's are not crazy--
or mad-- "or what," and definately seemed an uphill effort to say so...
Now here in Britain, people ARE fed-up with the current situation of ever-unfolding economic woes, and from where we're stood, its like a rock's
been thrown in a pool, and the ripples of discontent have led to other issues, so any root cause of our grievances is cancelled out by the distraction
of some "unguarded" political statement, or the rumours of union action here, or a dodgy policy drive there...
Yet for all the hardship of Iraq and Afganistan we've shouldered together more than other nations in the War on Terror, THAT in itself is a daily
topic on the radio and in papers and on TV...
So for all the anti-US grief you feel is widespread, remember how it could all just be some psy op to make you think its as bad as all that...
And that's not some uber-paranoid statement from someone overseas; as don't forget, we get ALL your TV and movies and comic and novels en masse, so
you'd be surprised how many people have arrived at my same view ON ACCOUNT of such mass-media...
Hang in there, friend. The storm will blow by in time.