Flamebait? How about an unpopular, alternative, and enlightened look at America? What are you guys so afraid of learning? What issues are you so afraid of discussing that you wish to lock my thread?
<< You know, it's funny how he hasn't replied to the thread yet............ >>
I happened to have a class. My apologies. It's difficult to give a quick response when you have 60 different people so insecure they attack like they have been attacked themselves.
<< You claim we are slaves that tout the company line, yet I believe no other country has access to not only more quantity but more unbiased information. >>
Unbiased information? Since when? According to FAIR, Dan Rather. During his Sept. 17 appearance on David Letterman's show, the CBS news anchor laid it on the line. "George Bush is the president," Rather said, "he makes the decisions." Speaking as "one American," the newsman added: "Wherever he wants me to line up, just tell me where. And he'll make the call." Media coverage of U.S. military actions has often involved a duplicitous two-step, with news outlets heavily engaged in self-censorship and then grousing -- usually after the fact -- that the government imposed too many restrictions on the press. Also, television network executives from ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and CNN held a conference call with national security adviser Condoleeza Rice, and acceded to her "suggestion" that any future taped statements from Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda group be "abridged," and any potentially "inflammatory" language removed before broadcast. That seems pretty Orwellian to me.
<< Still waiting, saidmohammed for you to name a single nation with a significantly different policitcal/economic/social system that is better. And I know you're logged in and reading this. >>
So if it's the best then you can't criticize its faults? Comparing countries to America is like comparing apples to oranges. Scandinavian countries like Sweden, Finland, and Denmark come to mind when naming nations that are "better" as you put it. Native American (both northern, central, and southern) tribes were better.
<< I am all for the fact that investments can generate wealth. It's what made us the biggest economy in the world; an economy on which many other countries are dependent. If you could only profit from work, there's not much hope of ever becoming wealthy, is there? >>
It's what has made us the biggest economy in the world? At what price? To whose benefit? Think about the environment, the disparity of wealth, global culture, and the fact that wherever you see richness it is leveraged on the backs of the poor. America is "the biggest economy in the world" but it has also either bombed or invaded more than eight countries during the past four presidential terms. Americans should confront the ugly history of U.S. attacks on civilians in such places as Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Middle East to understand why so many around the world see us not as the defender of freedom but as a violent bully. Our president's claim that terrorists "hate our freedoms" is embarrassingly simplistic, to the point of being childish. It is time to face honestly the way in which U.S. foreign policy -- so often cruel, callous and indifferent to the suffering of innocent people -- must be understood as part of this story.
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have one thing to say; if you don't like it here. Leave. Quickly. I love my country. God Bless the USA. If you're unhappy with US policy, then please, by all means, go live in a Third World country. Pick a rock, any rock.>>
Love it or leave it? That's intelligent.
<< No condemnation because you're anti-war, that's your choice, but because you don't know a good thing when you have it. Y'know the one of the cool parts of a free country? You *don't* have to live here. You choose to so right now I'd suggest keeping your mouth shut. >>
<< Oh yeah, one other thing. I hope you never need help with General Hardware, Software, Operating Systems, Cases & Cooling, Motherboards or anything Highly Technical; I have the funniest feeling you won't be getting any replies. >>
Keep my mouth shut? You won't assist me with my hardware/software problems? Many accuse me of being "anti-American," but ironically it is their call to limit political debate that is anti-American, for it abandons the core commitment of a democracy to the sovereignty of the people and the role of citizens in forming public policy.
<< Because AT is smarter than average and smart people tend to be conservative. >>
There's some intelligent reasoning.
By the way,don't try logging in with your alternate nick,It's toast.
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