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Old 06-25-2003, 11:18 AM   #33 (permalink)
geep
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Location: Imprisoned in Ecotopia
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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.
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..
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...
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."
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?
Time does not make something better, just older. Realistically doesn't "getting along" take two?
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