Why "hate" US
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I was reading the thread below started by Martin Marvinski regarding coming to US. He started his post writing that people "hate" US. I don't know the exact quantity of people who love or hate US but stories like this one never made good impression of US in the past and neither these stories will in the future
First, I do not believe this belongs in the lounge. While some of it may be factual there is to much that is just to questionable. Even in Vietnam the US troops never stood around and refused treatment of the wounded for hours on end, without some explaination. Why do those in India beleive any bad story of the US and non of the good. There is obviously an agenda here. To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step towards Knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli
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First, I do not believe this belongs in the lounge. While some of it may be factual there is to much that is just to questionable. Even in Vietnam the US troops never stood around and refused treatment of the wounded for hours on end, without some explaination. Why do those in India beleive any bad story of the US and non of the good. There is obviously an agenda here. To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step towards Knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli
Vietnam is not a subject that should be brought up to justify any American action. 16 March 1968 Second Lieutenant William Calley convicted of the murder of 109 unarmed civilians. The monument at the site lists 504 killed. I wont go into details. Source A Bright Shining Lie p689 by Neil Sheehan winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award ( American ) News should be politics free ( it's not ) The belief or disbelief of the news is up to the person reading it. Sorry no agenda just journalists doing their job. Anthony
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Who is crying wolf, though? :confused: "Programming is really just the mundane aspect of expressing a solution to a problem. There are talents that are specifically related to actually coding, but the real issue is being able to grasp problems and devise solutions that are detailed enough to actually be coded." -John Carmack [^]
Pick any one of the 1000's of anti-US posts on this single little site. Multiply by the 10's of 1000's of similar sites across the internet. ...after a while, it gets a little old. X| X| X| I certainly agree that the US is not without fault. We make more than our fair share of mistakes in the world theater, probably because we are more active in the world theater than any other single country. Too active for my tastes. We definitely beat our own drums and sing our own praises too often and for too long for my tastes, but at least we aspire to a grand ideal and grand principles. We don't always achieve our goals, but at least we have them. I see so many other countries in the world that never take a stand, never look beyond their borders, never aspire to greatness. I see a general apathy growing in their citizens. They become extremely cynical and paranoid. They blame everybody else for their situation and forget to stand up for themselves and their families. Take a few words of advice from me (not as an Americun, but as a fellow human being): Each individual is only alive for a very short time, make the most of it for yourself, your family and your country. Stand up, be counted, do the right thing and don't make excuses or lay blame.
Mike Mullikin - People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. Soren Kierkegaard
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Pick any one of the 1000's of anti-US posts on this single little site. Multiply by the 10's of 1000's of similar sites across the internet. ...after a while, it gets a little old. X| X| X| I certainly agree that the US is not without fault. We make more than our fair share of mistakes in the world theater, probably because we are more active in the world theater than any other single country. Too active for my tastes. We definitely beat our own drums and sing our own praises too often and for too long for my tastes, but at least we aspire to a grand ideal and grand principles. We don't always achieve our goals, but at least we have them. I see so many other countries in the world that never take a stand, never look beyond their borders, never aspire to greatness. I see a general apathy growing in their citizens. They become extremely cynical and paranoid. They blame everybody else for their situation and forget to stand up for themselves and their families. Take a few words of advice from me (not as an Americun, but as a fellow human being): Each individual is only alive for a very short time, make the most of it for yourself, your family and your country. Stand up, be counted, do the right thing and don't make excuses or lay blame.
Mike Mullikin - People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. Soren Kierkegaard
Well said! Chistopher Duncan Author - The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World (Apress)
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Pick any one of the 1000's of anti-US posts on this single little site. Multiply by the 10's of 1000's of similar sites across the internet. ...after a while, it gets a little old. X| X| X| I certainly agree that the US is not without fault. We make more than our fair share of mistakes in the world theater, probably because we are more active in the world theater than any other single country. Too active for my tastes. We definitely beat our own drums and sing our own praises too often and for too long for my tastes, but at least we aspire to a grand ideal and grand principles. We don't always achieve our goals, but at least we have them. I see so many other countries in the world that never take a stand, never look beyond their borders, never aspire to greatness. I see a general apathy growing in their citizens. They become extremely cynical and paranoid. They blame everybody else for their situation and forget to stand up for themselves and their families. Take a few words of advice from me (not as an Americun, but as a fellow human being): Each individual is only alive for a very short time, make the most of it for yourself, your family and your country. Stand up, be counted, do the right thing and don't make excuses or lay blame.
Mike Mullikin - People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. Soren Kierkegaard
Your words are truly refreshing. Thanks! Jeremy L. Falcon Homepage : Sonork = 100.16311
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Fact : the western press/media is far for uncensored than the rest. There are a lot of Western Journalists in Afghanistan, who all wnat to get a big story. Coverups in a situation like Afghanistan are a lot more difficult now than ever before. So I find it weird that the story appears in that journal and not others. Regardz Colin J Davies
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Colin Davies wrote: So I find it weird that the story appears in that journal and not others. There's a story about it in the NYTimes. I wasn't able to find it in the few other places I checked, however. Perhaps b/c it's already been reported (I'm not sure...) -- Russell Morris "WOW! Chocolate - half price!" - Homer Simpson, while in the land of chocolate.