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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
Hold your thundering horses.
Let's see what we can accomplish in two more years. Hopefully we can restore some dignity and respect to the White House. If, after six years time, we are still held in such contempt be the global community, then I'd say that we we're going to have to re-evaluate our role within that community.
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Thing is, I don't see that the people who are at the wheel for the next two years see any problem with how things are now. As a result, I have no faith that anything will change, at least for the current administration's term.
Yesterday while I gave blood, the Red Cross showed me Fox News. Fox News showed a poll they were running on their website that had 94% of people saying "the US should stop funding the UN". Now, that's obviously worded in a way that has bias in it--the US doesn't "fund" the UN, it pays dues to the UN just like every other nation, though we're more than $1bn in arrears on that. And it
was on Fox News, so the demographic is anything but scientifically selected. But it points to the sentiment that America is Right and the Rest of the World is Wrong that is at the very core of why people chose to do what they did on 9/11 and why we continue to be reviled in all corners of the globe.