RadioBanter - Observation I've made listening to foreign news...

Wow! You're using China as a model for human rights? (Isn't that what
Socialism is supposed to achieve?)

Not that I buy into that...

I really hope, and pray that Europe doesn't find itself more in-line with
Chinese beliefs than those of a representative republic.

If what you said is true, it is extremely frightening not just for America,
but the whole world. I'll not debate anything, as I don't care to. I've
other things to do with my time that are more precious to me, but as a
historian, and lover of my own personal liberties, I find this to be the
beginning of a horrific dark age.

djm
"running dogg" wrote in message
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"Daniel J. Morlan" wrote in
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I'm hearing a lot of news with a certain spin that can only come from a
genuine dislike of America. It's subtle, of course, but you have
opinionists from Radio Netherlands for example, comparing George W.
Bush,
Condoleeza Rice, and Donald Rumsfeld to Hitler, Himmler, and Goebells.

They obviously cite our pre-emptive war in Iraq, and our war on terror
as
a
logical means to make these comparisons, yet...

They never mention or debate the justification that the insurgency (I
hate
to use that word, because a true insurgency has real numbers behind it.
What these people lack in numbers, they make up for in sheer brutality,
and
unrestrained terror.)

The way these news organizations display the situation is that
everything
was just fine in Iraq, we went there, and since being there, there's
been
nothing but an orgy of destruction.

There is progress being made, and we can debate the war 24/7 if it
suits
someone, but the intellectual dishonesty and abusive rhetoric has the
potential to do a lot more damage to international goodwill between
Europe
and the U.S. and might eventually be planting the seeds of an alliance
against us.

I'll use Europe giving the Chinese weapons and technology as an
example...

Just don't think the TRUTH is being sought, is all. I reserve the
right
to
be wrong, but I don't know why our credit rating is so bad with the
PEOPLE
of Europe. I can only think that would happen because of a propaganda
machine.

DJM

There's a good reason why Europe is so anti American. Namely, they hate
America. This may be self evident, but the rest of the world really,
really hates America. Part of it is our superpower status, the fact that
we dominate the world like no empire ever has. We spend more on our
military than all the other countries of the world combined. Plus we
have most of the world's nuclear weapons. The rest of the world feels
like the playing field is tilted, like Bush is using America's power as
a blunt club to run roughshod over everybody else, and that the American
people either don't care or actively support it. The world simply wants
to be treated fairly, but they feel like America does whatever it wants
and the rest of the world be damned, that the giant is raging out of
control. I think that's at the core of terrorism, of Europe making an
alliance with China, of Europeans and Muslims dancing in the streets on
9-11. Another part of it is a difference in viewpoints. The right wing
Christian fundamentalist movement that is so powerful in America does
not exist in Europe. Likewise, few Americans subscribe to the democratic
socialist views so common in Europe. Europe feels like it has more in
common with China than with the US.

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