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Originally posted by Ustwo
No, we are the target of terrorism because we represent freedom and prosperity which is threatening to people who's attitudes haven't changed since 550 A.D. If you will recall the first world trade center attack was under Clinton, and Clinton was the worlds as kisser. If you want to show weakness to our enemies, you do that, and we can have more embassy bombings, and Somalia’s, and WTC like attacks.
I just pray to god (which is hard as an atheist) that people like you NEVER EVER EVER get to make important decisions again about national security. I still remember watching people jump 80+ stories to their deaths on Sept 11, it will stay with me until the day I die, and that was not caused by a policy of strength but one of weakness and not wanting to offend anyone.
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wow, dude, calm!
the reason that america is such a large terrorist threat is not because it's the 'home of the free' or other cliche'd crap like that, but because quite simply, it's a fat bumbling git with a gun who thinks that because it's new and has nukes, it doesn't need tact, respect or concern for everything else outside it's own airspace.
yes, thats a little harsh perhaps, but the reasoning is sound. america is targeted because it makes itself a target.
for instance the current situation in iraq:
more americans have been killed than any other nationals, not because they're from the land of the free and prosperous, but because you average american solider is a gung-ho 19 year old with no combat experience shooting everything that gets in his way, british troops or otherwise.
two comparisons are the americans and british, both dragged in by completly stupid leaders. the british are on the streets making friends with the locals, showing they're to be trusted, and generally don't get shot at too much, proving they stay out of the way of the USAF.
the americans on the other hand shoot first, shoot a bit more later, then wonder why everyone hates them.
for those yanks who can't see why the rest of the world seems to hate them it's because of exactly that.
a-terrorism: try living in london 20 years ago, saying goodbye to your kids before you left for work not knowing if the IRA would detonate a bomb in your office. same with spain now, under threat of a large and very organised terrorist group.
b-attitude: prancing around the globe like your the king of the world doesn't give you a very good image. yes, my views are somewhat skewed by the americans bombing the hell out of our boys in iraq, but still, try a little tact and politeness, goes a lot further than saying god has given you a vision.
c-freedom fries: need i say more?
sorry to the yanks who this doesn't apply to, but the rest, jeez, wake up for frick's sake!