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Originally Posted by Jerrek
In 2001, Europeans conspired to get the U.S. removed from the U.N. Human Rights Commission, offering our seat instead to Sudan and Libya, those paragons of liberty.
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And the US doesn't deal with countries who have bad reputations where it comes to human rights, does it? <cough> Saudi Arabia <cough> Turkey <cough> China <cough>
"European politicians have recently attacked and undercut the U.S. on North Korea, on the Middle East, over the Afghan war"
Translation: they weren't willing to just go along with what ever the US wanted.
"about prisoners at Guantanamo"
Those "unlawful combatants" held illegally, incommunicado, without access to legal representation, the Red Cross, about to be tried in military courts who have the power to issue death penalties with no appeals?
Gosh, I would have sworn that there are a few other countries who have had such powers...!
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at multiple environmental conclaves,
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Because the USA wants to "buy" its way out of international accords on pollution, global warming et al because it's not in *their* interest! (Obviously environmental catastrophes are something that only happen to *other* people!)
"regarding the International Criminal Court,"
Sorry, which country was it who wouldn't sign up *unless* their people had *total immunity* from the Court?!
"in scores of trade battles,"
Did someone mention steel tarrifs? And what about the levy that the USA wanted to put on Scottish Cashmere? (Wow, *that's* obviously a major threat to US industry!)
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Given our fundamental belief that each person and nation should be free to solve their own problems,
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Err, pardon??? I could have sworn I heard a contradiction there...!!!
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If they believe they're safer without a ballistic missile shield than with one, we say Godspeed to them.
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Ah yes, a ballistic missile shield (which probably won't actually work unless the tests are fiddled!) but which requires radars on other country's soil to even attempt to get to function, meaning that *other* countries become targets instead! Oh! Of course, how silly of me! It means that the US will be protected from these "rogue states" because they'll be shooting at someone else!!
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If Europeans think selling military technology to North Korea and Iran, and helping Libya and Iraq with their oil industries is a good idea, expect not a shred of support from the U.S.
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Of course not. The US has its own list of people who it wants to help for its own political purposes!! (Psst, Mr Rumsfeld, what were you doing in Iraq in the 1980s?)
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If Europeans believe their determination to send billions of dollars to Yasser Arafat is likely to speed peace in the Middle East, we won't stop them.
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Of course they won't! They're too busy shipping tanks and helicopters and other weaponry to Israel which they use to destroy homes in refugee camps and enforce a new "Berlin Wall" they're building! (Oh, BTW, don't they have a nuclear programme too?!)
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If enough of these divergences accumulate, however, Americans may eventually be forced to conclude that, as economist Irwin Stelzer has put it, many European nations "are ceasing, or may have already ceased, to be our friends."
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Why does that sound like the words of the playground bully? Perhaps we should make sure we keep the bully happy? Isn't there a word for that? "Appeasement" perhaps??
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Without admitting it, the Europeans have essentially decided to rely on the U.S. to keep them safe. American taxpayers are paying to build a missile defense system, an unchallengeable air force, and a fleet of 13 separate supercarriers with attendant air wings and naval battle groups. Europeans are concentrating on producing richer foie gras, art museums, and corporate subsidies. They could do much more to help guard the West without straining themselves
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Err, but *who* exactly is that massive force going to *fight*? Who exactly are they going to defend us *from*? Last I recall, the Soviet Union had collapsed and there's no major threat of invasion from anyone else!
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The U.S. now produces 30 percent of global GDP; as recently as the late 1980s the figure was just 22 percent.
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And how much of the pollution?
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Fully half of all Internet traffic takes place in America.
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And how much of the spam?!
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Three quarters of all Nobel laureates in science, medicine, and economics have lived and worked in the U.S. in recent decades. Given the very different population trends on either side of the Atlantic, America's lead will only widen in the future.
And that, everyone, is the difference between the United States and Europe, and why the rest of the world hates us.
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Let's see, arrogance, bullying attitude, overweaning pride, the thought that they *must* be right and everyone else *must* be wrong, behaving like spoiled children who *have* to get their way, trying to dictate to everyone else how they should live their lives...
Yep, you've got that one *exactly* right!
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that you choose to do, you know the posts repeating the whinging of why America is the most hated country in the world. Why dont you stop, read some of the replies here properly and think about what is being said. The thing that is most hated about America is exactly the kind of thing you are posting in its defence.
