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Originally posted by Lebell
That is your opinion that the world looks at us as a bully. Sure, stroll the streets of Paris or Rome and you can find people who think so. You can also find people who think otherwise.
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The US has gone from being a super-power to the new word i read last week - "Hyper-power" So true. There is no-one to counterbalance the threat of the United States. Before, the USSR and the USA kept each othe largely in check. Now, there is no such arrangement.
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Originally posted by Lebell
But the world was pissed off at us? I don't recall hearing or reading such.
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Oh yeah, the world was pissed off with Vietnam. Even Great Britain didn't support that one. President Johnson got into a physical altercation with Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson of Canada over Canada's not supporting Vietnam. The world was not smiles and chuckles over the whole Vietnam thing. In the end, what was gained by it all????
As Springstein so aptly put, "they're still there, he's all gone."
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Originally posted by Lebell
Uh, we did neither. We supported the Shah in Iran and Batista in Cuba. While I think we were myopic in our fight against communism, I can at least understand why it happened. But if you're gonna slam us, get your history right.
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Yep, those were two candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Originally posted by Lebell
Tell that to East Berlin, Grenada, South Korea, Panama, and Serbia/Bosnia to name a few. Or perhaps tell that to the victims that Saddam won't kill.
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East Berlin (I take it you mean the 1960's airlift)= Nato
Grenada = live ammunition fire practice
Panama = your boy Noreiga pissed off his benefactors
the former Yugoslavia = UN operation
Iraq = still trying to figure that one out.