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Originally posted by smooth
I don't know why you try to debate with people like this. US citizens are myopic--one of the disadvantages of being a baby culture in world affairs.
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So my opinion should be better then, since I can just about gaurantee I'm older than you.
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Originally posted by smooth
Look, why else would geep claim that we were "a target before [we] sent any armies anywhere?" We have military personnel around the world; and have had them there for decades..
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Hardly an occupying army.
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We use economic structures to impose our ideology on foreign cultures and follow them up with military force, if needed...
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Japan and Europe are excellent examples of this.
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We have devastated traditional modes of production and living in accordance with our standards of "progress."
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Didn't the Industrial Revolution, Capitalism and Socialism all start somewhere else? (along with many other "isms")
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Then, people sit back in their chairs and exclaim how shocked they are that other people "hate" us--as if the entire world is irrational.
Look how much good we have done; yet, look how people irrationally hate us. What does your culture know about the world anyway, Pacifier, it's only been around, what, a few thousand years?
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Time does not make something better, just older. Realistically doesn't "getting along" take two?