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Pretty much why I said it really.
It isnt just the saudis that hate you, it is everyone, and its becasue you are the top dogs.
This hate of which I speak? Its pretty wide spread too. Don’t blame al jazera, blame your own sucess.
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That is a self defeating, socialist point of view most Americans care nothing about indulging in. Should the US fail because everyone else is envious or unable to match our success? You actually make it very easy now for me to say 'who gives a siht who hates us'. Actually it wasn't very hard before, but thank you anyway.
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Who asked you to fail?
You may want to reread lovely. I told you why you were hated, what you choose to do/care about is entirely up to you.
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Then why do you think we should be pained that people hate us?
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Becasue when poeple hate you, they are liable to want to kill you.
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So our choices are to be failures or have people who want to kill us? Is it a shock to you that Americans refuse both scenarios?
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No, your choice is sit and wait to be nuked, or fix your attitude. Trying to beat the chit out of poepel creates more “haters” and the probability that someone will smack you in the face increases.
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"Fix your attitude". So its our perceived smugness that bothers you as much as it is our success?
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Read above.
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Nah, this is a circular discussion that is going nowhere. Instead of expecting the US to come down to the under-achievers level, everyone would be better served if they strive for success.
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Seminole..there is a huge fallacy in Hiccy's assessment. 90% of haters are not haters but are jealous and they would copy the model of success and use it to better their lives. 10% of them are sihtheads who will get left behind in the wake of global advancement carrying a chip on the shoulder and crying "woe is me"
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Remember when the playa haters went back in time?
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The problem with anti-American pathological thinking is that it creates the above attitude. That the “world” legitimately demands that we change our behavior or face nuking.
We who know better won’t simply accept your flawed premise. There’s lots of change that can go around in the world, lady. Until you and others accept that, your going to find that many Americans will not cow to an unjustified and manufactured guilt trip layed on us by “the world”. We cow to it plenty already, and it has no effect.
Sod off!
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I love the whole they hate us because they are jealous of us argument...for whom the Gods destroy...
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Shake Not Yet American Dear; what you (and YOUR OWNERS) are not able to grasp for many years is that no one hates America. Yep NO ONE HATES AMERICA OR AMERICAN LAND. Either they disapprove/reject/criticize american policies or its administration.
What people from several countries hate most is the negative impact to their society caused by american policies. e.g. GUN CONTROL who is suffering > neighboring countries and USA (United $hithead of A55holes) itself > why> because the moronic administration of a$sh0les cannot properly control or restrict GUNS.
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I think I stopped reading at the third page out of 6.
Madhanee budha babu: I never thought of it in that way. I dont know too many Canadians (except the ones from this website, but then I can never keep track of who is from where), nor many Britishers. Interesting that you made this triangle connection.
But isn't pretty much ... well I'd say 75 percent but then I probably am being generous in my estimate ... 75 percent of the world at the moment anti-American?
Lets see. Pretty much all of Europe is, or I'd say so from their protests. I dont know the government stances, but then who cares about governments anyway. Most governments do not respresent their people.
South Asia - aside from India, pretty much entirely anti-American at this point.
China - heh. Comon now.
Koreas - I forget if its the South or the North that is kissing American behind. I think South? The other one hates America.
Japan - they have no choice other than to like America - since we dropped an atomic bomb on them...
Russia - They're still Cold despite the end of the Cold War.
Africa - okay, I get the impression they're like chickens with their heads cut off at the moment. There are so many internal problems in Africa that I doubt they have a clue as to what is going on outside in the world.
Arabian lands - yep, pretty much Anti-American. Well, unless you meet one who is working for an American company. Then they just fake it as well as women fake orgasms.
erm...
Persian lands - I had a persian roommate. She tells me they don't like America much. Yep. She is going to Iran for a few weeks in the summer for a family wedding. She plans on not really telling anyone she meets outside the family that she's half white-American. Her mom hasn't ever gone there after marrying a Persian. She says she is scared.
uh, lets see, who's left.
South America. Okay, I live in Miami, so let me tell you a thing or two about South Americans. They don't care about anyone except themselves. So at the moment, rich South American families are much like leeches used by doctors of the early era in medicine. They boost America's economy very much with their drug trade. And their wives come to shop the hell out of Miami and are seen roaming around on South Beach in what I would like to define as a bikini, but I'm not quite sure of that...
Canada - they consider us Americans as the "loud frat neighbor - the one that parties a lot, has loud parties, and the police are always over there...while we (Canadians) are just trying to sleep". I actually met a Canadian who said that to me. Poor guy was searching for a bathroom after having a lot of mirchi at a desi-Chinese family's house in Canada. I dont know if the sentiment goes much stronger than that, since, well...they're Canadians. They're really harmless. They just like to chit chat a lot over tea...
Oh maybe that's the connection!!!
Uk'ers also like to chit-chat a lot over tea. So do Canadians. So do Arabs...
Oh hell, Madhanee you are a genius!!! So these old farts have nothing to do but Complain - THAT is the mechanism that runs the SUCK triangle.
Ah, now I will go back to cleaning the kachra out of my room.
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PCG, Read tomorrow NYTimes, there’s a lovely big writeup on Desi immigrants in Canada and how sorry the job situation is for them there. Yes, I got my tomorrow’s copy today. It’s not online yet. You can read it tomorrow.
Your diatribe is really useless, and it makes no sense. China hates US? Haha..their survival depends on trade with US. Come again.
Finish college, get a job, clean your room, than worry about what the world thinks of the US. For the moments worry about something meaningful.
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Well of course they depend on US for trade. Vice versa as well, though, may I add. As I recall it, when Bush started out as president in fact (small wala Bush), the Chinese took one of (what they call) a spy plane, disassembled it on Chinese grounds, and sent back the pilots and military folk on it asking us to please not send any further spy planes in their air territory, otherwise they would do the same haal to it.
If you turn on C-Span or follow on some of the recent debates on Congress, you'll see that China keeps coming up again. They are next in line to the USA in terms of a superpower. I dont know if you can classify them as a superpower, but US certainly views China as major competition in terms of economics and world power.
If you dont know this and accept it as fact, then I dont know what baloon you're sitting on.
Its unfortunate though - all these power games. I wish we could all live in peace in harmony. But then again, I guess we Floridians wouldn't be driving SUV's then.
Bummer.
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PCG please dont.... China, where married couple need state permission to make babies is a superpower? No kidding..
the US doesnt want to see china become a basket case, that's why it trades with it.
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In the end, all of you - whether pro-American or anti-American or neutral - end up fighting like kids.
And this is why the world is not at peace.
Ohm. Shanti Shanti. - Madonna