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Originally Posted by qweds
People don't hate or not hate the U.S for the Iraq war or some crimes in it. Not for the last Iraq war or the School of the Americas or any of the other incredibly horrific acts the American Gov't and corporations perform. They, and living part time in Canada and having been overseas several times, I believe they are quite numerous, hate the US for our attitude of,
'Fuck you, I'll do whatever I want cuz I'm America and I save everyone when anything bad happens.'
We started developing this after WW1 and solidified it after WW2. Americans are, by and large, under the laughable impression that we won WW2. We didn't, we came in after most of the fighting had been done and cleaned up and took the glory. Russia won WW2, end of story. But they're pinko commie motherfuckers, so, fuck them.
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I hope this wasn't learned in an American school, because it would reflect horribly on our much maligned school system. The thing germany feared the most was a two front war. When hitler started his march east, most of the western front was already under control. Without the US there is no western front, and russia cannot effectively counter-attack into europe. Had you said that about WWI, I would agree (accept for russia winning, they had backed out). But its erroneous about WWII.
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And that not even considering our international economic policies which purposely keep poor countries poor and us rich...or the way we subsidize the shit out of our purely destructive aggricultural methods and then force other nations to import out oil grown corn. The list of reasons to hate america is far longer than most Americans think or will ever care to realize. It's not, sour grapes, that fact that so many of us, on tfp and in general think so only goes to illustrate how arrogant we really are.
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That is some of the most ignorant statements I have heard on here. We subsidize farmers to NOT grow goods. If they grew up to full production, it would greatly drop world prices and devestate countries that depend more heavily upon agriculture (like some of those countries supposedly kept poor). Alot of it is sour grapes because we do have the largest economy, and are most visible in world affairs. Everyone says how spoiled americans are, but few note that there are many nations with higher per capita income. That doesn't help support their anti-american rhetoric.
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You can only piss of so many millions of poor farmers and religious fundementalists, and nationalists before your nukes and democracy can no longer save you from gettin your commupins.
but seriously think about it
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I'm sure you were cheering on the planes flying into the towers
