This is good!
If rightwingers are so disgusted by anti-Americanism, why are they going
about in the world doing all they can to get everybody pissed off
against American? (answer at the end of my post)
According to Armstrong the problems are all caused by the left. Perhaps
there are some on the left that are Anti American, but most of the
intelligent voices I hear and read are against American stupidity and
the problems caused thereby -not anti-american. (polls say only 1/3 of
Americans approve of Bush in Iraq)
Of course the US has done great things in the world, but this present
fearbased, violence first, president has perpetrated an act unworthy of
a feudal dictator in the middle ages. He has committed a great diservice
to his country and to the advancement of civilization.
He has defined democracy to the world, as the bully with the biggest
guns rule. He has defined liberation to the world, as oppression
bordering on genicide. He has defined capitolism to the world, as a
theft of oil resourses -and after stealing the presidency!!
How otherwise rational literate people can keep pulling the wool over
their own eyes is depressing. Well that's just it. It's the polarized
black and white thinking of the rightwing wackos that label and create
the evil in the world by their own fear based thinking. Of course, all
their actions and the resulting mess they justify, as being caused by
the evil ones. This supports their twisted thinking.
Fundamentally, George Bush is much more like Saddam then he is to a
truely wise ruler.
If a truely advanced intelligent person were in the whitehouse,
civilization including every American citizen would be safer, richer,
happier...etc., right now.
But you will never never know what positive potential you all missed.
Why? Because rightwingers label everything they don't understand as evil
and deserving to be killed. If war's death and destruction is all you've
got to offer right now, do everybody a favor and stay the . home.
Answer;
The polarized disfunctional thinking of "with me ar against me" is long
established in the minds of rightwingers BEFORE they go about the world
trying to divide others into those two fictitious groups. These ignorant
pretenders sit righteously in their pews and continuously gourge
themselves on the forbidden fruit of the knowledge of good and evil,
fully disobeying the first command of the God they all profess to
faithfully believe in and ask help from. Like wearing eye glasses with
one lens black, the other white, they go about the world fully deluded
that they have the only answer. The true god of light however, shuns
them and cannot stand them either. He leaves them stupid. That's why, in
truth, rightwingers have NO answer at all.
Leftwingers on the other hand, can generally see some goodness of live
within everybody, and are more tolerant of their differences. Because
they are not as indoctrinated, they have more options in how to solve
problems. But they can get angry when they see rightwingers' destructive
ways.
Rightwingers, hear me now. Your true enemy is within and has already won
over you. You are your own worst enemy.
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In article <02060421.2023@hotmail.com>, antimulticulture@hotmail.com
wrote:
> No excuse for anti-Americanism
> http://www.townhall.com/columnists/Armstrongwilliams/aw20040601.shtml
> Armstrong Williams
> June 1, 2004
>
> The Marshall Plan, or America's decision to rebuild Europe and Japan
> after World War II, was quite revolutionary. It went beyond
> traditional notions of geography and history to embrace a new vision
> using free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking
> relationships that end war.
>
> The Marshall Plan birthed history's first democratic empire. It also
> exemplified what is great about this country - its democratic ideal,
> its spirit toward the greater good. And it worked, not just to make
> the world safer, but to make it better. The success of post-war
> America represents the triumph of democracy and modernity over feudal
> disunity.
>
> But there has been some interesting hangover from this success. With
> the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the
> old European powers. One of the more predictable responses has been an
> undercurrent of jealousy about the relative strength and position the
> United States enjoys in the world.
>
> President Bush's invasion of Iraq provided the old European powers
> with some convenient cover to act out this jealousy. If you listen to
> the European leaders, it often sounds as if they are blaming America
> for what happened on Sept. 11. They talk less about the terrorists and
> more about America's wealth and wastefulness. In such a manner, they
> transform the United States into a Texas-sized target for all the ills
> of modern society. Cue the envy and resentment. The United Nations
> responds by lashing out at the abuse of Iraqi prisoners. They do not
> pass resolutions when an American is decapitated live on the Internet.
>
> If this seems like odd behavior considering that we keep U.S. troops
> stationed in Europe for its own protection, it is also somewhat
> predictable. It's basic scapegoating, a way to claim intellectual and
> moral superiority over the lone superpower, to identify yourself as
> part of a resistance and provide some psychological linkage to the
> glory days of the old European empires. It's the rhetorical equivalent
> of asserting your masculinity. Anti-Americanism is how France, which
> has the GNP of Georgia, is able to still occupy a place on the world
> stage.
>
> We see a similar - albeit more vitriolic - response from nonwestern
> countries. As Samuel P. Huntington observed in "The Clash of
> Civilizations": "The underlying problem for the West is not Islamic
> fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilization whose people are
> convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with
> the inferiority of their power."
>
> Often, the leaders of the Arab world capitalize on these feelings of
> anger and inferiority to distract citizens from their own failed rule.
> Economic stagnation is blamed on a nexus of crippling political
> decisions handed down by America. Citizens are told their way of life
> is under assault. The youth display their loyalty to the state by
> strapping bombs to their chest and blowing themselves up. So long as
> the citizens are kept riled up, they have little time to reflect on
> the mismanagement and oppression of their own leaders. Nor do they
> push for things like equality, democracy, market privatization or any
> number of policies that are badly needed.
>
> More shocking is the strain of anti-Americanism here at home. Leftist
> newspapers and academics deconstruct America for not being a utopia.
> They vent the frustrations and problems of modern times at America.
> They do not hold other countries to this level of scrutiny. Nor do
> they compare the United States to other countries. They merely turn
> their scrutiny inward, as if they were guilty and ashamed for their
> own affluence. I suppose it is a measure of how good things are in
> America that critics choose to focus on modern problems. It is a safe
> bet that the citizens of Zimbabwe are more worried about whether their
> children will eat, than on contemplating their own existential angst.
>
> Anyway, this self-loathing and empathy for our attackers is worse than
> decadent, it is dangerous insofar as it reinforces to the radicals
> that attacking the United States is the best way to win concessions.
> To which I would add, we should not feel guilty for being the world's
> only superpower. We should not feel guilty for standing up for
> ourselves. We should not feel guilty for rooting out groups of people
> who sit around and plot ways to murder as many Americans as possible.
> Nor should we feel guilty for having a president who is willing to do
> something about it all.
>
> --
> JimB
> http://www.geocities.com/UAM01
> Union Against Multi-Culty
>
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