Comment Re:Two things: (Score 1) 576
As someone who's actually traveled outside the country (and is in Korea as I post this), I call bullshit. Views of the U.S. vary from place to place, just as the views on anything else do. And no country is in any way united behind any one extremist position (e.g., "the U.S. is barbaric").
of course korean views might be _slightly_ biased considering the massive economic and military support by the us gov.
The slow decline in what? Whether or not a bunch of has-been European powers approve of how we do things? Cry me a fucking river. I'm far more interested in what up-and-coming powers think of us - y'know, the people who'll actually matter during the 21st century. Like Japan, China, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brazil, etc. About the only European nation worth listening to these days is Germany.
you obviously missed to realize, that the happy bbq with angela the other week was a well orchestrated pr spectacle with selected locals. several major german newspapers and tv stations ran polls and each one clearly showed, that bush and his politics are strongly disliked by the germans. I'd say its mostly the same for any other country in western europe. Who's left in your coalition of the willing besides nations getting tons of money and support or supporting us military bases? I never experienced a more common attitude between colleagues and friends with views from the right to the left than that the us behaviour is disgusting (ignoring human rights/geneva convention, lying about wmd and other stuff, torture, killing civilians, swift wiretapping etc). You really think that Indonesia, Malaysia (two mostly muslim countries) and the whole south and middle america (remember brazil treating only us immigrants the same way your immigration handles guests) think better of the us? you should consider to read some news-sites outside your perfect fox/cnn world....
my 2ct
Alex
of course korean views might be _slightly_ biased considering the massive economic and military support by the us gov.
The slow decline in what? Whether or not a bunch of has-been European powers approve of how we do things? Cry me a fucking river. I'm far more interested in what up-and-coming powers think of us - y'know, the people who'll actually matter during the 21st century. Like Japan, China, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brazil, etc. About the only European nation worth listening to these days is Germany.
you obviously missed to realize, that the happy bbq with angela the other week was a well orchestrated pr spectacle with selected locals. several major german newspapers and tv stations ran polls and each one clearly showed, that bush and his politics are strongly disliked by the germans. I'd say its mostly the same for any other country in western europe. Who's left in your coalition of the willing besides nations getting tons of money and support or supporting us military bases? I never experienced a more common attitude between colleagues and friends with views from the right to the left than that the us behaviour is disgusting (ignoring human rights/geneva convention, lying about wmd and other stuff, torture, killing civilians, swift wiretapping etc). You really think that Indonesia, Malaysia (two mostly muslim countries) and the whole south and middle america (remember brazil treating only us immigrants the same way your immigration handles guests) think better of the us? you should consider to read some news-sites outside your perfect fox/cnn world....
my 2ct
Alex
