Al Gore is a loser (Video Proof)
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i think you are profoundly wrong in that. and this being
wrong is the main reason why the USA, despite their
efforts and investments receive such bad critics.
i find it very hard to believe in US claims for democracy
after the supreme court decision in 2000.
i find it very hard to believe the claim for freedom and
the rule of law after (actually during) guantanamo bay.
it really looks like that all the american schoolbook values
are in place when they suit american interests and they
are quickly thrown away at any other occasion.
and this is just hard to swallow for non-US people.
remember that ron paul vs. giuliani debate? i was
really stunned about rudy's reply. he honestly seems
to think that the US is the ultimate good and has
nothing to do with anything bad on that planet.
i truly believe that for their achievments americans
are admired, adored, loved. but it is the dark side of
ruling as a super power that gives people the feeling
that the beautiful faces of the anchorwomen on TV
are ... masks. and that it takes huge effort to keep
those masks in shape.
and by "dark side" i do not mean the inevitable wrong
action once in a while. it seems more systematic.
when a regime is pro-american, it is good and receives
support, no matter if it is democratic or not. and the
other way round.
the US will never join the international court. for good
reason. it makes them accountable. and they don't
want that.
didn't seem like that. i read you were saying that 20
years ago they said we were going to freeze, now they
say we are going to boil ... the first was wrong the
second will be either. nevertheless it seems you can
hardly write a single sentence without swearing. though
"Mars is warming idiot" truly contains some entertaining
quality ...
I'm sorry, but blaming US foreign policy failures on the rest of the world's jealousy is a joke. No educated person takes such an argument seriously. You have been taken in by some of the most transparently manipulative demagoguery in the history of American politics.
While America is indeed rich and successful, and much of the world is certainly envious of our wealth, people don't fly planes into buildings because they wish they had XBox 360s.
You are perhaps the last person left in America who believes that the spreading of democracy throughout the Middle East is a plausible long term outcome from the Iraq war.
Of the 27 million liberated Iraqis, half believe their country was doing as well or better under Saddam Hussein, one of the worst dictators of the 20th century. Not much of a liberation if you ask me.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6451841.stm
Martin
