Anti-American Rhetoric (It's that time again!)

[BC Grower]

Are you really saying that it's okay for people to pick on others because of their nationality? Maybe that paragraph was a typo. Either that or you've already absorbed some of that lovely American flavor from across the border.

Are you on drugs? Where do I suggest anything along the lines of "picking on"? Big differences between preaching, critisizing, and picking on. Besides, being picked on as an adult is a choice and state of mind. You can only be picked on if you allow it. We create our own realities.

[Hollandica]

So the Nazis in control of Europe would just be "different"?!?
If Germany had the A-bomb, England and Russia would be gone.

Re: Japan: Didn't they attack first? AND is not the world a better place with the Japan of today?
If someone comes into MY house with harmful intent against my family, I'm
reaching for a bat, not a yardstick. You would do the same.

I agree the Nazis are an evil party here, though they weren't in the eyes of german civilians of that time, keep in mind. And saying if Germany had the A-bomb England and Russia would be gone is no excuse for letting America have it (though legally it's theirs :P they developed it) and droppit on Japan.

I think that every country has it's own views on things and the difficulty of globalization is respecting all that and making sure nothing interferes. For example, if communism works well for a country, let them have it. It might not sound like a fair or reasonable govnerment system in the eyes of your country or mine, but who gives one government the right to judge anything over another.

My ideas are based on the philosophy that every culture is different, and though you can think you understand one other, you'll probably never do really, because you're still different.

No personal attack intended man

[sbskico1]

no offense taken

"I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Voltaire

plus I was enjoying playing the "ugly American"

[sbskico1]

If I were Truman, I wouldn't have allow any other country to developed the A-bomb