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Originally Posted by Marvelous Marv
(Asked of you and the rest of the people reading this)
Do you really think another country would help us under those circumstances? I just can't imagine anyone else helping us, and not just because of Bush.
As far as I can tell from the UN, 90% of the rest of the world has pretty much hated us for forty or fifty years.
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It's not a matter of would, but a matter of should. Of course the United States is considered to be the new Rome (in a bad way). Everyone outside of the various red states knows that we are an empire and we are not deserving of any kind of help. But does that matter? Saddam Hussein was very much evil, and his government carried out unspeakable atrocities. Does that mean that the civilians of Iraq are also evil? Of course not. The right thing to do is try to help those in need. You nor I made the decision to invade Iraq or torture prisoners. I actively protest such unreasonable and morally reprehensable acts. We are not to blame. When I went to Germany a month back, I was given sneeers and such for being American until I spoke (in the worst german in history). Most of them know that many americans hate Bush and all the terrible things our govnernment is choosing to do. They just don't know how many of us there are. I had to explain that Bush won by around 1%. Roughly half the country didn't agree with Bush during the 2004 election, and his popularity is even lower now.