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[quote][b]Matthew[/b] wrote: Hi Robert. Apathy is a huge problem, you are totally right. One problem with the United States is an administration likes to take sides but pretends they do not. When I say perspective, I say "put things into perspective". If you are a person to prioritize the injustice in the world, then how do you measure? It is not arrogant to say we are saints compared to people who kill their daughters if they marry "infidels" (this is called honor killing), or kill their own people in civil war, or teach their children that Zionists are evil, or train people to bomb innocent civilians in subways or such. Compared to that mentality, Germans, Brits, Indians, Japanese, etc.. all saints. In the past, Britain used to be imperialistic. I won't get into Germany's past. But in the present time, overall, I do not believe the people of those countries are like that. Compared to that, yes. But compared to what is just in the world and how the world should be like beyond 2000, none of us, including Europeans, are saints. American policy is often inconsistent, hippocritical and impractical despite what good intentions may be. When they are good. Often they are not. Often they are self-serving. Our policy will often fund one country to protect itself and then when they do they give aid to the other country. The problem is our ability to rebuild a country (so called 'nation building' sucks). Somehow after World War II we lost what it took to do so. We are much better at waging war than peace. You could argue that is why there is a United Nations, to help keep the peace. But their sole purpose and they fail miserably, because they have no real authority and no real backbone. One reason this why blind virtue and good intentions are so misplaced. That is the lesson we should have learned in Vietnam. And I believe everyone knew this, but the president played the politics game to move his vision forward, drumming up the paperwork on WMD and the gamble did not pay off. If, by some miracle, it did work, and Iraq was a great country and everyone joined together to rebuild and make a democracy or something close to it, of course the world would be happy with us and sigh in relief. But it is arrogant to believe that would have been the outcome. Which is why it is important not to believe in fairy tales. I think that the fact that the perception of us is based on the results of the war implies that the war itself is not needlessly barbaric. Thus, you can't compare those actions to say the actions of mass killing of your own people, suicide bombing, or massively crushing dissent, because those have no positive outcome. It is just cruel and unjust, period. Thus I think it is important to put things in perspective, that we are not running around with hates in our hearts, but we are running around with an administration that is incompetent in responding to such problems. But, to be fair, I think we need to spend much more time and detail and put the spotlight on the people who are running around with hate in their hearts. That is the true source of injustice, is it not? I feel bad for the moderate Arabs who do not want to be categorized one way or another, did not want to choose sides. They are almost forced to choose sides because these clash of cultures are polarizing. You have to admire people like Doctors without Borders who go and help people who are dying, and are on the frontlines not trying to change the world but helping the victims. There is something the Americans can do. They can vote for an individual who has the intelligence and cleverness necessary to improve the world with leaving the smallest wake possible. That is what Clinton did. Republicans have screwed up big time (in many ways), and come voting time I hope the administration is held accountable. But then again, I don't believe in fairy tales :)[/quote]
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