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Originally posted by stevie667
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!
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"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."
What in God's name has brought you to that conclusion? These boys are not extras from 'Apocalypse Now,' they are highly trained warriors, both in combat and in the Laws of Armed Conflict. They do not intentionally kill civilians or friendlies*, and saying otherwise is an insult, pure and simple.
I'll let others address the rest of your post...
*must make allowance for the occasional, statistically inevitable whackjob