well we could start by pleasing our allies, instead of mocking them, ignoring them, or helping "rebels" overthrow them.

We are nonger the Most Powerful Nation in the World. Sure, everybody has gotten the general idea that if 'War is declared on the United States' we will be very much pleased to kick ass. But, wher'd we go wrong? Vietnam, Korea? When I was learning about US History, I was taught that of all the Wars there had been, not once did the United States back down. Oh we may have not entered World War I until 1917, President Wilson had been trying to keep us neutral. World War II, President Roosevelt had been aiming for neutrality,then came 'December 7, a date which will live in infamy'. Korea, we really did not want to go, and were actually 'monitoring' the French soldiers. Vietnam - as far as I know, that war was the biggest mistake we ever had, and the first time we packed up and left, rather than fight.

The entire premise of this exercise is absurd. Do we really care what someone in Pakistan who willfully harbors terrorists thinks about the US or expect them to have an opinion worth listening to. The only ones we should be listening to are our allies. Much of the opinions about the US in these third world countries is based on the propaganda they are fed by their state controlled media. They often have absolutely no idea what America is really like or the real reasons behind the actions our government takes all they know is what their government wants them to know so their opinions are somewhat meaningless since they are completely uninformed opinions.

I would hardly call a popular uprising of the people of an entire nation as "rebels". America has had "its guys" in charge, in a few places. And those places have finally gotten their acts together, and they want their country back with their own leaders. They are not obligated to be in the US's hip pocket.

The U.S. has not done itself any favors trying to engineer society in other parts of the world. The West need to lead by example, and leave it at that. Only interfere when its crimes against humanity and warcrimes, otherwise stay out of it.

BTW, Pakistan and Afghanistan are harboring the terrorists the CIA created to fight the Russians.

Stephen sargent---You need to take a class in English writing 101 before you take anymore history classes,I value your opinion along with everyone else's...But I just can't understand your incoherent writing...Sorry...Maybe you should try reading it before you post...I do that and I find sometimes mine don't make sense so I edit accordingly..

While I in general believe in respect and tolerance of other nations and cultures, I could care less what their opinion of the U.S. is, especially when it comes to defending our nation against LEGITIMATE threats (that means I supported our initial actions in Afghanistan. Iraq? Not so much).

Much of the rest of the world hates the U.S. of A and has for a long time, and that hate is based on envy. They envy our success and they envy our freedom.

A growing number of Americans is joining them in hating us because they've decided we don't deserve our success and don't believe we deserve freedom if it means we aren't subject to their political viewpoint (and that second point applies to social conservatives as well as socialists).

My bottom line is I love my country and I love my freedom and I will be enjoying BOTH tomorrow and if my fellow Americans and citizens of other nations approve, great, but if they don't, that's just too damn bad for them !!!

JS in SD said -

"The entire premise of this exercise is absurd. Do we really care what someone in Pakistan who willfully harbors terrorists thinks about the US or expect them to have an opinion worth listening to. The only ones we should be listening to are our allies. Much of the opinions about the US in these third world countries is based on the propaganda they are fed by their state controlled media. They often have absolutely no idea what America is really like or the real reasons behind the actions our government takes all they know is what their government wants them to know so their opinions are somewhat meaningless since they are completely uninformed opinions."

Absolutely perfect. Couldn't have said it better myself.

In some ways, the view of historians who will look back on one, can hold a certain weight that various and disparate views of the contemporaries doesn't always hold. For instance, we don't view the fall of the Roman empire and the passage into the dark ages in quite the same way people of that era do. But then we also have the advantage of hind sight, as well as having evolved socially, from that era... Of course, and this said we don't exactly know what their books will contain however, or by what standard our descendents (not yet born) will be viewing/judging anyone by... It depends, perhaps in part on what world they inherit (what world we will have left behind for them)....

Course politicians in general don't tend to represent the people anymore (which in a representative democracy they should give some thought to)... But in all the thought about what this group thinks, or that, or who's pleasing who, some thought should be given to the future. Not that it helped Winston Churchill much in his bid for re-election after WW II; but history has tended to have a different take, after the fact...

There is however a difference with this, vs what many politicians also do, where they're totally dis-interested in representing the people, and instead would serve the lobbyists to the exclusion of all others. This self same histoy, can tend to forget those, they seem that insignificant after the fact....

Who gives a damn what those losers outside this country think of US? It makes zero defference.

That's EXACTLY the attitude that is turning the rest of the world against us.

You got it, jimbo.

What video clip were you guys watching? Not everyone was enamored with US foreign policy or willing to kiss our a** and tell us what we want to hear...That we are the greatest country in the world. That being said, what I heard was a group of people with very balanced, fair and nuanced opinions or our country. And these opinions were, by and large, fairly positive. Even citizens from countries that have a legitimate reason to dislike us tempered their criticism with a distinction between our government and "the American people". What I would tell Americans is to go abroad and get some perspective. People don't hate us, they simply want us to be better.

By Petra Cahill, msnbc.com:

More than three and a half years since President Barack Obama’s election as the first African-American president.

In the second paragraph the author of this article made a misstatement. President Barack Obama is a racially mixed person of a Caucasian Mother and a Negro Father. Legally, his race is Caucasian. It is not someone's physical appearance, it is their bloodlines. The Mother's race is the race of the child. Then again, perhaps he is a true African-American since his Mother was born in the USA and his Father was born in Kenya.

Before anyone tries to get me a hard time, I am NOT a birther.

Truth is Homer if you could get past the apartheid that you practice, Obama is the first person of color and the first that looked like him to be elected to one of the most powerful jobs in the world.

Average people ,like you and I, completely around this planet, still believe what they believed a hundred years ago and farther, that THIS country has the right idea about humanity. Freedom. A disgrace we are currently letting our greed show at such a disgraceful manner. Obama is on the right track to fix it. With rightous educated voters at our booths, hopefully, WE can fix this dysfunction currently residing in OUR congress and continue this worlds inhabitants of respecting our USA.

Of course we needn't 'do whatever the world tells us' or whatever, but we damn sure need to be listening to the citizens of the countries where those who wish to attack us live. Lack of respect for others and not listening to the rest of the world is what has gotten us up to our necks in dead Americans. Keep it up and it will only get worse.

Make no mistake, if you attack us or harm Americans- I say blow the sick f%@k out of his socks. The respect needs to happen long before it gets to that point.

@Homer Adams

The problem is most people only care about outer appearance and treat others as such. In the 3 and 1/2 years I read all the comments, most people think he is black and there are plenty of remark toward him being so.

Let's also look at the name, Hussein, that is all they care about and branded him as Muslim, need I say more?

John in Battle Creek:

Apartheid was a system of racial segregation enforced through legislation by the National Party governments, who were the ruling party from 1948 to 1994, of South Africa, under which the rights of the majority black inhabitants of South Africa were curtailed and white supremacy and Afrikaner minority rule was maintained. Interesting how you belittle yourself in trying to throw an insult my way.

I could careless of the skin pigmentation of President Obama. I was pointing out the misstatement of the creator of the article. As far as being of color, all of the previous 42 presidents of the USA have been of color. Caucasian is referred to as being white, and white is one of the six (6) colors. President Obama should be judged for his performance regardless of his skin tone or perceived race. Anything less is an insult to him and the people that voted for him.

CuongDNguyen:

I see your point. Regardless of what people think, holding the position of the current seating president of the USA is a thankless job that puts years on their bodies. Too many people prejudge any president based on if there is a (D) or (R) after their name.

He may not be a muslim but he has a muslim name. Go figure.

@buddy137

Hussein is a Middle East name in case you failed to make a connection.

Do you use any name from the Bible? If so, you are using Middle East name as well and by your logic, they are all Muslim name.

I don't care if he is a christian,Muslim or a atheist he changed his name something that is usually done by a converted Muslim but I'll take him at his and say he's a christian. That still make him one of the worst presidents when it comes to JOB creation in the last 80 years!

Cuong, names from the bible that are used are the "English" version of the biblical names.....which are basically Jewish in origin since it is a record of the Jews since the days of Adam.

My point is that Jewish names and Muslim names come from the Middle East, but are in no way synonymous. The 2 ethinic groups actually devided by when Abraham (of the Jews), and Lot (of the Muslims), went their separate ways. Lot's faith was rather compromised because of his dealings with Sodom and Gommorrah. (Nuff said on that point).

The liberators kissing the feet of the very people who want to rip our freedoms and stomp our liberties..wish they would move away to these other countries..

I love my country, but I don’t like the direction the country is heading in. A few years ago I spent some time in Eastern and Central Europe. People there are very unhappy with our governments. For years we have been preaching to them about democracy and telling them that’s what they needed. Yet, when they finally “freed themselves” and when they needed us the most, we were nowhere to be seen. We have let them down, like we’ve let many of our long standing friends down with our policies and behavior. Our direction in the last few years has been particularly confusing. I am not sure anymore what and who we stand for. Does anyone know!!?

The USA isn't even in the top 10 as far as Freedom where it concerns its citizens - but you are free enough to think you are #1 in freedoms.

Al Jazeera news is less coerced than American news - the number of Americans watching Al Jareera news has exploded. So you think this article wasn't edited to soften the views others have of us?

No country should ever stop trying to better its self - unfortunately the USA has gotten content with being the land of the self proclaimed Greatest, while its infrastructure crumbles. Would you tell your child that they are good enough and don't need to keep striving to do better?

As for the claim above that Obama hasn't created jobs - the current trend is to cut as many government jobs as possible, I didn't know Obama ran all the private corporations. That is a no win issue - if he increases government jobs, half the country claims he is giving out special treatment to the other half of the country... even though just as many from the complaining side hold government jobs as do those they point fingers at.

Much of the rest of the world hates the U.S. of A and has for a long time, and that hate is based on envy. They envy our success and they envy our freedom.

No, they don't *envy* Americans at all. They mock them, they laugh at them, they look at them w/ contempt & roll eyes at them, but they certainly aren't consumed w/ jealousy that they're not *successful* Americans, too, as you seem to think.

Our obstructionist Congress piddling around w/ stupid nonsense like DOMA & DADT rather than important matters has made a laughingstock of American *freedom*. Not to mention its adverse effects on the world economy. The blame for this recession is put squarely on the US. They're amazed that the US doesn't have what every single other developed country in the world has....health care available to all its citizens. They're astonished at both the idiots in Congress & the stupid American citizens who are against what they perceive as a basic human right. They think Americans do not respect human rights. They think our previous POTUS & VP should be tried for war crimes. Americans fortunate enough to travel abroad give the entire country a black eye w/ their loud arrogance & their foolish expectations that everyone will speak English & cater to them just b/c Americans think they're the greatest ppl on the face of the Earth.

It has nothing to do w/ *envy*.

Is any one else getting tired of the lefty a-holes hammering on the USA?

No, but we're getting mighty tired of the Republicans in Congress doing everything they can to hinder an economic recovery. Take a look around you. This country is a mess. They're doing nothing to fix it b/c their main concern (other than making sure Obama becomes a one-term POTUS) is ridiculous nonsense like opposing gay marriage & sticking their heads up vaginas in their attempts to banish birth control, abortion, & women's health care. Don't you think the rest of the world is as sick of this stupid @!$%# as we are? It makes the US look like morons, not the leader of the free world. The onus of this global recession is on us & our elected representatives are too busy dicking around on trivial matters rather than taking measures to rectify the economic downturn.

If ppl would realize this isn't *lefty v righty* BS, maybe we'd get something accomplished to polish up our sadly tarnished world status.

scar, Yup. Pretty much.

scar
You nailed it.

Epic Fail scar...just like your Epic Fail Obama. You are toast. We are SICK of his spending and double-talk!

China will never be like America for the next 200 years the way america has evolved the past 200 years economically and commercially. it has a totalitarian form of government which its peolpe might someday change. 99percent of the countries they are now involved with are freedom loving people and freely elected government except a very few like ugly Mugabe. and for China to succeed like America has, it will have to metaphored into a democratic nation which is and will likely will not do. but it will have to change sooner or later if they continue to love money which again, contrary to the principles of communism. but today, china and its top leaders are what we now call " capitalist communist." figure that out folks. More than fifty percent of its top leaders are millonaires and own million dollar business and properties in the USA and in Europe such personal possessions prohibited by the form of government they do not even follow but force their people to.

@buddy137

Worse in jobs creation? lol

Obama created millions of jobs in case you failed to keep up with fact.

If you understand basic math, you would learn that having negative numbers would actually make you worse and guess which president did that before Obama.

You people make me laugh, it's always about his skin, then his name, then about Nazi, communist, socialist, Marxism and more. However, most of the time you couldn't understand what those words mean or tell me some facts to back up your claims.

I speak for myself, I wish the USA would keep their ego and their nose's out of the rest of the world's business. What does the rest of the world think of us? Let's just say if I could afford a vacation out of the country, I'd pass on it. This article is absurd, most of the world thinks we are war mongers. One day that crap will be over here if the United States does'nt stay out of every fight they can jump into. I love my country, but I think the United States has more than enough problems here at home and if our Elected Officials looked around in their own neighborhoods instead of reading NBC, they would proberly see what I'm talking about.

The world is safer due to the men and women of the United States Army. From 1942 to the present we will go anywhere, suffer any distress, inflict maximum damage to our adversary and then liberate your people and welcome your women to our land. God bless the United States of America and the fighting men and women of our armed forces. To the anti war left wing wackos a true patriot does not relish war but is ready and willing to defend our land against all enemies both foreign and domestic. Happy 4th of July and long may Old Glory wave...

Obama is most likely the worst POTUS we have seen in the 20th century. But dont worry his days are almost done as he has worn out his welcome. The liberal left will impale themselves over him and are about to lose all that they have dreamed for. 2012 the year the jeffersons got evicted..and the GOP takes back congress. first thing on the agenda is to impeach Obama for high crimes and misdemanors.

time for some 100 real talk. please, the media and hollywood makes it look like all of americans live in freedom. never been to jersey, the hood, the cities. everyday ppl are killed, jailed, almost every single male here by age 20 has been in jail, the worst foods. you gota love the media. freedom, yeah right. live in the city 1 day, how come they never show the true side of america? only hollywood. plus its the country that has more greedy, corupt goverment. we have the highest prison popluation in the world, the goverment steals the country and thinks its thier own. kicks out mexicans, hates muslims. made blacks slaves once, this is arugbly the most racist country in the entire world! and attacks other countries for no reason. steals thier oil. the country that treats its animals with no repsect, factory farm animals like pigs in complete confinement. as one guy said, its not the public but the goverment. look at our food, were so fat cuz nothings really natural. it just says natural cuz theres no laws agaisnt lying. our goverment is bunch of dictators of the world. and also its own citizens. steal our tax money, lock up more citizens then any other country, and feed us the worst foods. its the country of law and very strict. i know china, iran and a few others but america aint much better.

Anything less is an insult to him and the people that voted for him.

The people that voted for Obama were beleiving in media hype and fairy tales. He was and still is a socialist bent on the destruction of America. he panders to who will ever be so gillible as to vote for him

rc-4121998

blah blah blah maybe you shoul move to Canada or the UK if you can But they probably wont take you becuase they have enough of their own home grown twits.

John Gal yeah yeah yeah. its nice to see your enjoying yourself. again there is a reason why i live in the city. if i had the money id move out. i still live with my parents, i earn minimum wage and ive never been out of my area so how can i move to a canada or UK? enjoy your freedom, you wouldnt be a right winged wacko if you were born in a poverty area in the US. you would realize how life really is. ive never even seen life, ive never seen trees, ive never seen the wildlife, ive never seen life. i have lived in the city my entire life. thats not very fun. you might not realize it, but its not. there is no peace here. theres violence and corruption.

blah blah blah maybe you shoul move to Canada or the UK if you can But they probably wont take you becuase they have enough of their own home grown twits.

blah blah blah to someone speaking their mind so you could skip your own and simply send him packing for getting the @!$%#ty end of the stick in your Freedom Lottery? in a less primitive world, your double liner would have raised enough flags to find you phsychologically damaged. work on that.

@JIM, Roosevelt was very much wanting to go to Englands aide, but the people popular thought back than was to be nuertral. I think we were had some Nuetrality thing going on to. Roosevelt did all he could for England. We made planes took them to the Canadian border and manualy pushed them to Canada to be shipped to England. After WWI Americans didn't want to be involved in any more wars.

@rc4121998, You can get out of just about anything you want to. Only you can change things for yourself. When I was young we were poor. I lived in rural america. I wanted to do other things in life, thins that that part of the country couldn't offer me. I, for myself went into the military, I am not telling you to do this. That dicission gave me the first rung on the ladder of life. I made a carrer out of the military, as I got a little older and wiser I grabbed myself some more education while I was at it. I've been around the world twice. Some times it's been nice and others not so nice. I wanted better in my life and I got it but it didn't happen overnight. Life is what you make of it yourself. My father couldn't make my life for me I had to do it myself. I left home with a suite case and $40 bucks. I now have a Wife, 2 Cars, A home and all the headaches that go with them, but I'm happerier than crap, LIVIN THE AMERICAN DREAM.

The entire premise of this exercise is absurd.

I disagree. Americans have this idea that we know it all. We are often like rebellious teenagers who refuse to listen to our elders - even when we make mistakes. The truth is that we are still young and could learn from other countries that have been around a lot longer than we have. The truth is that we do bomb other countries. The truth is that we do have poor science and math knowledge when compared to other countries. The truth is that we do have sky rocketing medical costs. The truth is that we have spent billions of dollars minding other people's business, when we really should be minding our own. So, why shouldn't we listen to what other countries have to say about us? Are we afraid of the truth?

John in Battle Creek , you said

Truth is Homer if you could get past the apartheid that you practice, Obama is the first person of color and the first that looked like him to be elected to one of the most powerful jobs in the world.

That is true, but if he were white , he would never have been elected President in 2008 .

The U.S. has created the world ted world we are living in when, at the end of WWIII .we determined that we would be top dogs in the world by virture of overwhelming military force. It alll proceeds from that.

America should be judged, also, by the good things she has done, historically. If the histories of Russia, China, Pakistan and other 'belly achers' are examined, the facts will speak for themselves. Certainly, the U.S. has had its 'dark days' but we are still looked up to mostly. Also, the idea that China is even close to us economically or militarily, as a 'power house,' is absurd. They aren't even in the same league. People's knowledge (outside of the U.S.) is generally pretty limited and their opinions are formed from yesterday's news, without any knowledge of our history and what we have done (over time) as a whole. The article is short sighted and by no means balanced. The people interviewed, generally, have no clue what America IS and has done for the world as a whole. Our efforts to stem world hunger and disease could NEVER be matched by the baby killing Chinese or morally the bankrupt Russian government of strongman Vladimir Putin!

Reading these comment our country is split and confused, something no one likes.

Well put scar...but you forgot to mention our absurd gun policies. Yes, I said it. I'm totally cool with owning guns for hunting, and family protection, and even recreational target practice, but doesn't it make sense to prevent terrorists and criminals from buying guns. Does the general public really need all those AK-47's, armor piercing ammo, and expanded magazines? Do we really need to carry loaded weapons when walking around town, in bars, in banks. The NRA would have you believe it is your right. But, even the 1st amendment has some limitations for the public good, so should the 2nd. In Arizona, as we have recently learned, any 18 year old thug can buy as many weapons as he has the money for...and then sell them on the street to anyone who wants to buy them. Why is this sh!t legal? This is moronic and insane. nuff said.

To begin with, who cares what Pakistan thinks ? The Pakis claim to be our ally and take our money and then harbor Bin Laden, a corrupt government we are stuck dealing with to keep the peace.

At present the Republican front runner follows a religion started by the not so well known polygamist JOSEPH SMITH in 1834 in New York state. He has how much money in Swiss bank accounts ? He has how much money in off shore accounts ? He was involved with some very immoral financial dealings at Bain Capitol, along with the CEO of Domino's Pizza, think about that next time can't decide between Domino's and the local Pizza seller. He is building (built?) a "car elevator" at his new California mansion which replaced the former mansion that apparently wasn't good enough for him and his cronies.

He says things like: "The trees in Michigan are the right height".

He wears denim so the common folk (poor naive scared blue collar Republican voters) think he's "one of them".

Yes I wonder what the world thinks of us now with a Republican front runner who follows a religion that has "special" underwear that no one (especially Cher) isn't supposed to comment on.

Who but Mitt Romney is the current Republican front runner, and I wonder what the rest of the world thinks of us ?

I like the post (#1.29) that correctly brings up Congress's role in some of our issues, but then immediately falls into the trap of blaming a political party and one party's extremist agenda for gridlock, when it is political parties (as in plural) and two extreme agendas that are at fault because they'd rather DO NOTHING and blame the other side than take the tough road and hash out their differences to reach consensus and get something done for the American people and our nation. That's something I'm not particularly proud of this July 4th, but the good news is, those clowns are off !!!

As for the rest, those people "laughing" at Americans, "mocking" Americans, looking at Americans with "contempt" and "rolling their eyes" at Americans are doing so while wearing American fashion with American influenced hairstyles and listening to music with American roots . Hope they're happy for our annual celebration of the Birthday of our nation, and if they aren't... too bad, so sad !!

i like china's comment about being "world police" lol, who does he think he is? our outspoken democracy and support for humanitarian aid is the best on this planet.... why lets ask Libyans, and see just how their democracy is going....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/04/libya-ethnic-tension-elections-berbers

just in case that link didnt take, just go to thegaurdian of course com. select UK and World news, and in the search, Libya.

now on the verge of being run by exstremists... read for yourselves.

Twas ever thus......they bite the hand that feeds.

America has meddled with countries around the world and a lot of people died because of it. Dictators have been propped up to support American corporate interests (central america/dole) (shah of Iran/oil) and it has come back to bite America in the a$$. America had been paying 80 of the bill for the french war in vietnam and when the french were defeated at diem ben phu America couldn't stand the loss and so, kept it fingers in until they got burned.

People around the world remember when their friends and family are killed. Amerricans tend to forget. Here is a partial list: vietnam 3 million, cambodia 2 million, central america 100 thousand, iran 50,000, iraq 1980-1990 500,000, iraq 2003 500,000. There's more of coarse.

Body count when America should have been minding it's own business over 6 million dead.

This is a big reason why a lot of the world hates America.

I married an American and we live in the real land of the free and home of the brave, Canada. Personally I pity the majority of Americans. If Jesus were your president, you would have universal single payer health care, and that would lower your crime rate.

1 on 1 Americans are great people, but right wing greed is destroying your country and that is threatening to take the world down with it.

Don't worry this election will save us from our idiocy. It's just as simple as electing Willard or Obama. Obviously I'm being sarcastic.

We need a full restructuring of how we view ourselves and the world, and it's not going to happen.

Vote the way you want to this November Americans! Won't make a damn bit of difference domestically or internationally. Both of these guys will keep the same policies we've had for 12 years, maybe even expand the government more or take on another war, all while digging the hole deeper.

Hope...

...the only thing to hope for is a purge of D.C.

How come you islamist cheer evertime a islamic nut job blows up a room full of people or blows themselfs up killing children, babies, women and men looking for work or doing a job to feed there families.

the jadist force young women, children and men to blow themselves up just killing not only there worthless lives but that of any innocents that are within range!

If it were up to me i would bomb, drone and missle you and every one around you that knows who these terrorist are or cheer at there killing of innocent people!!

The trouble with islam is that they are not taught respect for anybody but themselves!!

If you do not want blown up stop supporting terrorist because the US can hit back whenever and where ever we want!!

With comments like these, whats not to like?

Interesting point of view, don't see Pakistan turning down US money.

The US should be the Peace Keeper of the world in the first, let the other countries handled their problems & use the billions to protect our own borders. Put a stop to all immigrations until our nation is secure. For peaks sakes stop barrowing from China & selling our country.

The question of what the world thinks of us is biased from the onset. Before asking this question, take away all the trillions of dollars we're sending to these foreign countries, then ask them. We pretty much buy our ability to do what we want, when we want. Even in Pakistan, when a drone attack takes place, their president always makes the same speech, sounding like he's mad at America for the strike, all along hiding behind the curtain with his hands out taking the American pay-off. You'll never get a truthful answer as long as we're putting money in the hands of these governments.

"That is the US killing innocent people in Pakistan with drone attacks"

Why do Pakis and their agents post these one-sided nonsense? Do you people imagine others are a bunch of fools and you people are the smartest in the world.

Hope you are in the real world instead of some Islamic religious Nazi hell hole.

In most of the Islamic terrorist plans and attacks all around the world Pakis have a hand.

Pakistan has been breeding, training and exporting Islamic radicalism and terrorism to most of the non-Muslim nations including the US.

Here rich Sunni Saudi, Kuwaiti, UAE and other ME bigoted and ungrateful and backstabbing sharks have been guilty of financing them.

Their hands are very much in 9/11.

Pakis and their agents have blasted huge numbers of people through different terrorist acts all over the world.

Were those not affected humans? Were they not innocents?

In Pakistan, first it was massive genocides of minorities from 48-50 as soon as Pakistan was formed.

Now the Paki Islamic religious madness has not ended there.

They are after Ahmedias, Sufis (fake love and dance Islamic soap opera people), Shiites and Baloochs and other minority sects.

While praying their mosques are blown to pieces on Fridays and even hospitals are bombed to kill those injured.

In Afghanistan, Pakis have backstabbed the US and NATO forces big time. Half of NATO forces deaths are due to ungrateful and backstabbing Pakis.

When the NATO forces were entering Kandahar in 2001, Pakis airlifted key al-Qaida, Taliban, ISI and others militants by back door from Kandahar.

This includes Mullah Omar, Osama and many including Paki Haqqani militant network leaders.

Hope you remember about Pakis sheltering Osama.

These Paki Islamic religious Nazis don't bother about their people and they are into reckless killing games in the name of jihad.

Drone attacks are not enough and to reduce NATO forces losses, Paki militant areas should be carpet bombed just like 1991 Iraqi war.

Also no Paki liability should be permitted inside any non-Muslim nation, especially the US.

It is time for the Paki Trojan horses in the US, UK and other places to get out at earliest and go to their beloved Pakistan.

They will be happy and we will be happier!

lolz.. This post from "krishna Kumar" aka Jonathan-1982062 sounds more like from an indian help desk monkey to me than from an American.

Take your petty arguments to Pakistan and India where you belong. America should not play baby sitter between beggar pakistan and the slumfull india.

NavySeal: That is your level of education and understanding!

US has been baby sitting Pakistan. Otherwise, Pakistan would have been out of map!

Interesting point of view, don't see Pakistan turning down US money.

The US should be the Peace Keeper of the world in the first, let the other countries handled their problems & use the billions to protect our own borders. Put a stop to all immigrations until our nation is secure. For peaks sakes stop barrowing from China & selling our country.

There are tons of holes in your argument. First off, putting a stop to all immigration would destroy this country economically. This country depends on immigration to quickly expand and contract its workforce as well as to boost a dismal US fertility rate. Immigrants, legal and illegal, often pay into our social programs far more then they can be contributed to using-- as most immigrants are in their prime working ages. Also our nation is secure, almost too secure. We're shielded from any real strife that many of the other countries in the world face. I do not agree with trading freedom for security.

Secondly, we don't borrow from China. Our debt works a little something like this; any excess debt gets written into bonds which are then sold at specific interest rates. Large investors and countries purchase these bonds which are backed by the full faith of the United States government. Any bonds that remain are sold in another round with a higher interest rate, and the process repeats until all the bonds are sold. Currently the fed are keeping interest rates artificially low by purchasing all these bonds during the first round, thus preventing any more bidding. Countries like our bonds because they can turn large amounts of their currency into the US dollar relatively easy, which is normally required to purchase petroleum and do business with our government. In short, you can't prevent China from buying these bonds, that would just be playing rudely and is generally required due to our large trade deficit with them.

So our economy is much more complex than simply cutting government spending- which would basically be committing fiscal suicide, or simply not selling our debt to a specific country. I find it funny this is such a hot topic these days when the truth is it doesn't matter.

William Bentley: Permit only highly qualified and scientific personnel and their families!

Of course, no big list of relations should be permitted!

US competitiveness and technological leaderships are very important.

@william bentley-your "logic" also has many holes there smart guy.

1.illegal immigrants do not pay more than they use. the simple fact is that they pay income tax (which is taken out before it even gets in the hands of the employees) and little else. they work menial jobs and therefore can't afford healthcare and other things for their families, leading to them applying for federal aid. on top of that, they have this nasty habit of sending large parts of their paychecks back to their home countries, meaning that LITTLE IF ANY of their paychecks actually help america.

2.they boost the fertility rate? dude, that's not a good thing. thats a very bad thing. all that does is lead to more kids who have one parent homes, and who need to rely on government aid to live life. thats a fact. this is one of the big benefactors of americas problems right now.

3. your wrong about not borrowing from china. your right about the bonds, but we do in fact borrow lots of dollars from china. ask Barack, he'll tell you the same thing. it's one of the things he wants to stop as soon as it is fiscally responsible for him stop borrowing.

4. yah, cutting government spending obviously would hurt the economy. duh. when people say cut government spending they really mean redistribute the spending and stop uneccessary spending. which is something i think we can all get on board with. the thing to be discussed is what needs more/less money, and what programs need to go bye-bye.

Wow, All of you need to read your comments before posting...This has been the most incoherent thread I have ever read on here..

DKJ-4, ---too late.....China already owns us. The interesting situation is that if China under-sells us and, in effect, make us "go out of business", they go belly up too---for we are their possession and commodity! (What a wicked-web-we-weeve, huh?) lol

Hmmmmm

if i was from iraq or middle east i would hate america with a passion. they attack those countries, kill innocent ppl, waterboard innocent ppl, steal oil.

if i was mexican and latino i would hate america. they steal countries then deport others.

then again why would any american citizen even like the goverment? they steal all our money though this tax system, such strict rules and laws you call this freedom? we have 25% of the worlds prison population, yikes! we have some of the most violence and murders and top of that were known as the country of racism, hate and attitudes towards others. didnt we have the blacks as slaves? but then again as one guy said, its not the public, its not american ppl. its our corrupt powerful, greedy goverment. the rest of the world probaly looks at our goverment as they are terrriost. we look at our goverment as a bunch of corrput ppl. and hollywood and the media will do anything to make the goverment look good. so some ppl watch it and think america is nice. then they come here and face reailty. it probaly is top 5 both in the world in human and animal rights violations. look what they do to the animals, confinment, pigs never even move a day in thier life. chickens caged. who does this stuff? greed.

@RC, you can sit on your pitty pot and peck that computer all day long. If you don't pick yourself up and do something for yourself nobody is going to do it for you. Heck you say you want to see the country, join the Peace Corps, go to Truck Driving School, go to the Welfare office see if you qualify for a Trade School. You say your living at home and making min pay. There are people than can help get you on a path, but remember you have to walk that path on your own. You said earlier you are in a bad part of the city in NJ and want out. It's up to you, sit on your butt and peck or pick up your butt and move.

@ 6dogs. yeah i read ur other comment. but its easier said then done. i give u credit for doing something and going to the military and happy for u. change is hard. very hard.

@ RC Do you know why Mexican pot growers plant their harvest in US National forests ? Because our court system is much more liberal and humane than Mexico's. Did you know if you are caught growing pot in California the jail sentence is around 6 months, but in Mexico first they break your feet with rifle butts, and sometimes your hands, and if they really don't like you they break your teeth also. Good luck with that Mexican prison dental plan, hell if we don't even give dental care to our own veterans, do you think you'll get dental care in a Mexican prison ?

To top it off I heard 5-10 years prison for growing pot in Mexico.

In fact if you hate it here so much, why don't you go away ?

@william bentley-your "logic" also has many holes there smart guy.

1.illegal immigrants do not pay more than they use. the simple fact is that they pay income tax (which is taken out before it even gets in the hands of the employees) and little else. they work menial jobs and therefore can't afford healthcare and other things for their families, leading to them applying for federal aid. on top of that, they have this nasty habit of sending large parts of their paychecks back to their home countries, meaning that LITTLE IF ANY of their paychecks actually help america.

2.they boost the fertility rate? dude, that's not a good thing. thats a very bad thing. all that does is lead to more kids who have one parent homes, and who need to rely on government aid to live life. thats a fact. this is one of the big benefactors of americas problems right now.

3. your wrong about not borrowing from china. your right about the bonds, but we do in fact borrow lots of dollars from china. ask Barack, he'll tell you the same thing. it's one of the things he wants to stop as soon as it is fiscally responsible for him stop borrowing.

4. yah, cutting government spending obviously would hurt the economy. duh. when people say cut government spending they really mean redistribute the spending and stop uneccessary spending. which is something i think we can all get on board with. the thing to be discussed is what needs more/less money, and what programs need to go bye-bye.

1. Studies conducted in several major immigration hubs show differently, and they are also not eligible for financial assistance from the federal government. What states decide to do is a different thing. Sure, its no secret that they send some money home, but they are also responsible for bills and sustenance here so they do pay sales tax.

2. They supplement the US with workers in the prime working ages. They boost the US workforce since we have a dismal fertility rate. How is this not a good thing for growth?

3. The United States has a trade deficit with China; demand for Chinese goods in the United States far outpaces demand for US goods in China. Due to this we borrow Chinese goods, and then pay them later after the fact. Chinese then buys our bonds. It's far more complicated than this, but people should get the jist. We aren't going over asking China to print a bunch of US dollars for us to borrow, or begging them to send us some US currencies. Government Indebtedness solely results from bonds. This gives us leverage to provide more services to the American people. This is the way everyone wants it, the US government has been in debt 99% of the time since its inception. If this isn't how it works, please enlighten me.

4.Who are you or I to decide how to best spend the governments' money? I'm not making such a claim. We just can't up and cut it though, and I do not believe that when the majority of the people say to cut government spending they really mean to redistribute it.

I like #3. We have debt, we have the bonds that are due, overdue or owed. If you lived in your own house like the government does, spending money they don't have, you'd be foreclosed on, and be sleeping in tent along main street with the other unfortunate homeless groups.

The truth is, most of us stop spending when we have nothing left to spend outside our budget. If we have nothing in the cupboard because we decided on filet mignon instead of a couple pounds of hamburger, well we would go hungry. You can't spend what you don't have. The cuts have to happen. The worst programs first.

If you've ever run a business, you understand the way it works. In the slow time you keep the strong workers. The intermediate workers get less hours, and the slackers are cut. The same goes with your overhead, If you have a maintenance program (lawn, parking lot, aprons, dish towels,) you change over to self-wash products, making your employees responsible for their upkeep. (Health insurance, Clothing and food allowances, Cafeteria Plans, Uniforms). You change your marketing from the primary news slots, to secondary sources (tv to radio ads, newspaper coupons to door to door flyers, to personal marketing - your adds on your products- pens, papers, flyers, bags.)

There is no time like the present to be fiscally responsible. The cuts have to happen. It has to start somewhere, and SOMEONE is going to be hurt by the cuts. There are no two ways around it. You can't have balance, if you don't make it balance. I of course reccomend starting with a 25% reduction in the federally elected officials pay, making them responsible for their own health care plans, and removing the many various cafeterias from the halls of Congress. It won't hurt them to wait in line, or brown bag their lunch anyway. There used to be a saying, the BUCK STOPS HERE. Well If OBAMA won't make the cuts, then maybe the next guy will. It's time to balance the budget. Time to quit making bucking excuses, and catering to special interests. You know, kinda like you promised when you were getting elected MR. OBAMA.

Mr. R.

We don't have any bonds that are overdue man that would result in a default.

You analogies are something I hear a lot, but sometimes people forget the US government isn't like a household or even a business. They have no defacto credit limit; except for one that has been arbitrarily set by congress and raised ever time it's been required. Our households have a credit limit, you run up 10,000 worth of debt on a credit card and you're sinking, but the Government could run up 100 trillion dollars of debt and it wouldn't matter. Why wouldn't it matter? As long as other countries continue to use us as the consumers of the world, as long as our dollar is needed to purchase oil, and as long as our bonds are backed by the full faith of the US government and our dollar stays strong, there will always be a demand for the dollar and our bonds.

This is all regardless of whether we have nothing in debt or a 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 in debt. It just works differently than our households, as long as we continue to have no debt in anything that's not US dollars we're fine.

noooo.... they do not.

Well...they do in Europe, certainly. Barack Obama is consistently listed among the most respected world figures in the United Kingdom, and during the French presidential election, both candidates were boastfully comparing themselves to Obama for votes. Just about everybody I met in France when I was there were as obsessed as Obama as many Americans were in 2007/2008.

Then they get really shocked when you tell them that he's not very popular anymore.

Sure they like us better since G W gone why Obama gives them everthing they want.What I ment to say is he kisses there ASS. Wish G W was back.

Not only that, today I read (don't ask for a citation unless you really mean it as I am all over the web every day) that one of the European countries was praising Obama as moving in a good direction with socialist programs much like their own. I think it was France. My be wrong but the a$$ kissing was phenominal.

Evidently, you didn't read the article, Todd, or you're totally deluded by erroneous thinking---(not even the Liberals think the rest of the world likes us...). Are ya gettin lonely out there sitting all by your lonesome? Come on back into the light! lol

@mike, you have got to be a glutten for punishment, Bush back? You must be having an LSD Flashback.

And if you don't like us...do us a BIG favor and stay home.

America land of opportunities and innovations!

It's really a shame thet we remain worried about what anybody else thinks. When we start behaving for the good of the world instead of for the good of ourselves we will earn the respect we desire. As long as there is suffering here we shouldn't try to save the world. As long as there is hatred here we shouldn't impose our will anywhere else.

Why are we still trying to buy friends? They don't like us but they'll take the money. Pakistan is a perfect example. They want us out, and won't help fight terrorism but they still want the bucks. I see the Islamist Brotherhood in Egypt now thinks we're OK. I assume they've looked at the books and see they can't make it without the US handout.

It makes me sick.

Thee Ox and Cassandra

Stupid comments like that are why some people don't like us.

And we live in a global economy now. So we SHOULD care.

america home of the racists and judgemental idiots. people from south africa should come here and just see how racial harmony we have.

ok tina, we'll just start doing everything the world wants us to do then, k? or, we could continue to not care, and all the world is still gonna be fine and deal with us cause we're the frickin best. and you can take that to the bank. here's a little food for thought for ya: notice how when the EU and all of europe is collapsing, america continues to do fine even though we're in a deep recession. why? all those countries rely on us and our economy. if we have troubles, so do they. who cares if they like us or not? they depend on us, their economies rely on ours.

Tina, except for Mercedes Benz, we could still be self-sufficient so spare us the "one world order" BS. Actually if you look at the trade deficit, we could make all of our own stuff here including oil and not have to worry about what the rest of the world thought. They would fall all over themselves trying to get trade back.

Isolationists: what can I say?

I'm with ya, Tina....unfortunately, we haven't been true "isolationists" since Pearl Harbor....it's no longer feasible because we no longer belong to ourselves. Check between your toes....I'll bet it says "made in China"! lol

And if you really don't like us quit taking our F***ing MONEY!

careful pat,

asking white people their opinion is racist.

Are you blind? There were several "white" people interviewed.

Pat only sees black and white... and apparently it needs it's glasses checked and changed

I can tell you what several white Europeans told me they think of us.

Please DO leave.Did you kill any Indians or blacks? Don't add me to your whiny diatribe.Our strength is now our weakness.The melting pot concept has gone off the tracks.When our people came from europe it added to the country,now people come from everywhere else and help to devolve our culture.Sending jobs overseas has caused us to be fat and stupid while making some insanely wealthy,at the expense of the people.

It pains me to watch my fellow Americans swallowing the leftist tripe hook, line, and sinker...

The crap you read in the media is designed specifically to evoke a strong emotion in you, to keep you distracted from the truth..

And the truth? The USA isn't the evil, bigoted, warmongering country you've been led to believe. Granted that there are "interests" in the USA that can manipulate our system to their advantage (e.g. Oil companies).

We screwed the indian- that was trying to murder us...(your teachers failed to teach you the real reasons for American's attitudes towards indigenous tribes during the 19th century.)

...the Blacks...whom we freed from a system that was instituted long before we became a country..whom we freed with the blood and bodies of hundreds of thousands of Union soldiers...

We are constantly at war...really? Lets see...prior to 9-11, we went to war in Panama ('89), Grenada ('83), Vietnam (-'74)....constantly at war? In fact, if you add up all the years starting from 1912-2012, you will find that during the vast majority of it, we were in a de-facto state of "peace"....

Our greed and corruption caused a worldwide recession...really? that the World economy, based on oil, took a hit when world oil production ceased to increase (peak oil)...I'm sorry, what planet are you living on?

We kill our own to the tune of 14,000 Americans per year! Ambiguous at best. Exactly who is killing whom?
You need to unplug for a while, maybe go fishing for a few weeks where you don't have to listen to the trash put out by the media (liberal or conservative)...

Be careful, Canada has immigration laws you know. Whenever we try and enforce ours we get called racist.

Do nascar fans even know what social skills are?

One less welfare check good bye

patrick leonard you forgot the first war in iraq.

SeeYa.

As for foreign troops on our soil, no living person has ever seen it. Probably never will. IF someone ever tried a land occupation of the mainland US, they'd be running with tail between legs in VERY short order. They MIGHT be able to take the pansy asses in NYC, Los Angeles or Seattle, but they'd not make it much farther. There is no foreign military in the world with more people and guns than the US civilian population. Add our military to the mix, and it'd be over before it started.

fred the puppy,

Good point, but as for foreign troops never seeing our soil, that requires a correction and 2 qualifications:

The War of 1812 - The British burn down Washington, D.C.

Mexican-American War - Many battles fought in Texas, which although not an American territory at the time was largely populated by Americans.

World War II - The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, albeit not yet a state.

The-COG, Do nascar fans even know what social skills are?

...Do the "Occupiers"?? They got murder, rape, drug-abuse, and deficating behind a tent down,

but those aren't really marketable skills now, are they?

OH Fred.....some vets still living saw Japanese on our soil...Very costly battles.

The Aleutian Islands Campaign was a struggle over the Aleutian Islands, part of the Alaska Territory, in the Pacific campaign of World War II starting on 3 June 1942. A small Japanese force occupied the islands of Attu and Kiska, but the remoteness of the islands and the difficulties of weather and terrain meant that it took nearly a year for a far larger U.S. force to eject them. The islands' strategic value was their ability to control Pacific Great Circle routes

We screwed the indian- that was trying to murder us...

Like you wouldn't try to eliminate ppl who were stealing your home & your land? In case you missed it in your American history class, they were here first.

It was not OK to commit genocide for land greed....unless, of course, you are of the POV that the white Europeans who came to the New World were a *superior race* & that the indigenous peoples were mere bugs to be squashed en route to Manifest Destiny.

And the US govt should be ashamed to treat Indians w/ the same blase indifference today.

...the Blacks...whom we freed from a system that was instituted long before we became a country..

And which system we kept when we became an independent country, arrogant enough to term them only 3/5ths of a person. Plus took another 100 yrs to reinstate the Reconstruction era civil rights laws that were repealed b/c they were still thought of as not being people.

We are constantly at war...really?

Yes, really.

The American Revolution was followed almost immediately by the Northwest Indian War.

We were on the shores of Libya long b4 the 21st century in what became known as the 1st Barbary War; it was the 1st foreign war our fledging nation fought. For the noble reason of commerce, of course.

Followed rapidly by Tecumseh's War to sweep the Indians out of Indiana Territory, & the nonsensical War of 1812, which was fought for really no reason at all.

As soon as that was over we were meddling in Algiers in the 2nd Barbary War.

Andrew Jackson crushed the Indians & set them on the Trail of Tears in the 1st Seminole War.

For decades after we were involved in the Caribbean w/ anti-piracy *operations* & in Africa w/ anti-slave trader *operations*.

The Arikara War, the Winnebago War, & the Black Hawk War were the beginning of crushing the Indians on the Great Plains.

We undertook *exploring expeditions* in Sumatra, Fiji, Samoa, & New Zealand; just some savages killed there, who cared?

Texas was a Republic b4 it was a state; remember the Alamo? How do you think we ended up adding California & the Southwest to our borders? We fought the Mexican War for that expansion.

*54-40 or Fight*....we were willing to go to war w/ Great Britain a 3rd time over a sm strip of land in the Oregon Territory.

More Indian wars....the 2nd Seminole War, Navajo Wars, the Cayuse War, the Pitt River Expedition, the Apache Wars.

The US Navy bombarded Nicaragua & flexed its muscle against the Chinese in the Battle of Ty-ho Bay.

Yet more Indian wars....the Yakima War, the Rogue River War, the Puget Sound War, the 3rd Seminole War, the Paiute War.

2nd Opium War, *expeditions* in Paraguay & Fiji.

The US Civil War, fought simultaneously w/ still more Indian wars....the Dakota War, the Powder River Expedition, the Snake War, Red Cloud's War.

More battling in China; the Cochinchina Campaisn & the Shimonoseki Campaign, the Formosa Expedition. Plus *exploring* in Korea & Hawaii.

The Black Hills War, famous for the Battle of Little Big Horn. The Red River War, the Nez Perce War, the Bannock War, the Cheyenne War, the Sheepeater War, the Ghost Dance War, all against the Indians.

US involvement in the 2nd Anglo-Egyptian War, the Colombian Civil War, the Samoan Civil Wars, the Chilean Civil War, the Rio de Janiero Affair.

The Spanish-American War; remember the Maine? Netting the US the Philippines, Guam, & Puerto Rico. The Filipinos didn't much like that transfer, so there was another war w/ them immediately after.

US involvement in the Moro Rebellion, the Boxer Rebellion, the Mexican Revolution, the Nicaragua Campaign, the Haitian Campaign, the Dominican Campaign.

World War I. Followed by US involvement in the Russian Civil War.

World War II.

The French Indochina Wars, the Korean War, the Laotian Civil War, Vietnam, Operation Blue Bat in Lebanon, the Bay of Pigs in Cuba, the Cambodian Civil War, US invasion of the Dominican Republic & Grenada, the Lebanese Civil War, bombing in Libya after the Gulf of Sidra Incident, the Iran-Iraq War, invasion of Panama.

The Gulf War AKA Desert Storm, Somali Civil War, Bosnian War, Occupation Uphold Democracy in Haiti, bombings in Afghanistan & the Sudan, Kosovo War.

And let's just lump everything after that into the ubiquitous *War on Terror*.

You're either naive or unacquainted w/ US military history to think the US is hardly ever at war. We are hardly ever at peace. We have been almost continuously at war since the founding of this country.

Our greed and corruption caused a worldwide recession...really?

Our Congress is certainly stalling a recovery assist. What do you think happens when *the greatest nation in the world* takes a credit hit & is held hostage by a Congress who refuses to raise the debt ceiling once under Obama when how many times did they do it under Bush 2 w/o a fuss? 8?

scar, You are wasting your time. People who want to know already do. People who don't - well, they don't want to and that isn't going to change.

Thanks for the public service SCAR but I agree with Grump....The right lives in a bubble and if you don't live in that bubble you are insulted for knowing things....Dumb people have made it an insult to be in the know...They call us elitists and libbies and on and on...Just because we can form a sentence,use spellcheck and research a topic if we don't know about it....Enlightened ones formed this country, and dimbulbs are tearing it apart at the seams

Scar ...If you knew anything about native American history...you would know that natives were committing genocide on each other long before whites showed up. Pick any tribe and you will find they took each others land by force. All tribes lived by the rule of survival of the fittest. They were all raised in warrior societies. Boys were trained immediately to become warriors right up to manhood. The natives had a political structure in place where upon the more kills, or strikes against their enemy the higher esteem they had among their people. Taking of scalps, complete heads, and captives was a process to show proof of the feats. They were given special markings, like eagle feathers to wear to show the higher esteem among themselves. Documentation of archeology and eyewitness accounts proves the of taking captives and torturing some or all and killing them. Some were kept as slaves to replace family members they lost in sickness or battles. Sometimes cannibalism was practiced. They took land (hunting territories)from each other without treaties. Sometimes they did make treaties between themselves but I never found a treaty that one side or the other ever kept. In short...no matter what the color of skin...All mankind is the same. It is a romantic false view of natives just sitting in the woods playing flutes and making dream catchers. Survival of the fittest was the only law. Natives committed genocide on everyone they came in contact with. They did the same as whites......but when it came to fighting whites....they lost.

When we take up arms it is to defend our families, friends, and countrymen. Most people do not take war lightly nor do they have hind sight. History is written by people who most of the time were not there. I will not imply I am endowed with inalienable knowledge about why people kill. I do know some just do it for no reason at all. That is what I have learned from history.

tbh, "the New World" has been settled and re-setteled so many times. Even the question if the Clovis Indians were the first here, has been brought into contention

http:/

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/la-sci-first-americans-20110326

Hopefully it will let me throw in the link that way, for peeps to see. Easter Island also, when they did DNA testing on various skelatons that remained, showed the origins to be of polynesian decent. This part of the world has been settled more then twice throughout it's long history....

B Obama is a GREAT president, taking us from the worst depression since 1929, totally caused by Baby Bush and his DE Regulation. Caused the Gulf Oil Spill and who knows what else. He got uss into Iraq for BOGUS reasons, WMD. Remember? He MADE THAT CRAP UP!!! Under Obama jobs are coming back, the economy is slowly recovering from 8 I said EIGHT years of Bushonomics, which dongt work. Get it know? Idiots.

Thanks Curt! Logical and well stated! And to "ustupidamerican", I'd agree with the others, get your lazy, whining, worthless ass out of this country made strong and beautiful by our forefathers and with no contribution from you! Try Pakistan for a while. And if there are going to be some kind of polls on who likes who, how about a poll of all the civilized nations about who likes the arab-muslims and thier hate and killing?

"Our blood, sweat and tears have done more to improve the lives of other nations than we will ever get credit for."

Excellent point!

VermontGirl - get educated - its all about power and money. Move along now - nothing new to see here!

Spoken like a true progressive biotch!

Justoneeguy. COngratulations on having learned how to expresss yourself from your television. IS that CHarlie SHeeen your channneling? Welll, I guessss it's easier than having to think for yourself. ANd why should you have to think for yourself when there's so many TV shows you can chirp catch phrases from? WInnning, RIght?

You go all over the world and make trouble. Can't you just mind your own business?

@Star - sure. We'll cut off your foreign aid and military protection, too. Bunch of parasites.

oh no Star...see we have a perfect society. We don't attack others unless we conjure up reason to, we don't install dictators to take them down later and most of all, we don't need no stinking healthcare!

Why shouldn't they support our President?

So there are countries and peoples in this world that hate us! Ummm, then why the hell are we swamped with immigrants and people standing in line to come to live in the USA? Apparently it's the mid-eastern and especially the muslims who dislike the US the most, and yet they are beating down our doors to get into America! And while they are here they contribute nothing, only demand aid and support and our acquiescence to their customs and religions. If there is some country that hates us, perhaps we should gladly oblige them by sending every one of their people home, stopping all our foolish and generous aid and letting them go to work for a change in their own failed country.

Yep, that's exactly what you should do.

Star-2521762 Tell it the governing officials not citizens, stupid idiot. This is coming from a Canadian. If were not for the US whatever loser country you are in would probably be bankrupt or ethnically cleansed from some sort of inbred terrorist.

Kick the haters out and flush em!

Cassandra, THEY WOULD IN A MINUTE! Have you seen how we "treat" illegal aliens here?? They are given rewards and incentives that most of the rest of us legal citizens can only dreams about....

Well spoken...but most don't grasp it.

Both of you parasites, just stay out of the USA then and stop mooching off our financial and military support. Overpopulation is not an American problem - our only growth is immigration. You people have the overpopulation problem.

If you don't like America, stay out and stop accepting our money.

Star is out to lunch pay her/him no mind

Then get the @!$%# out of hear punk!

Dude, you got it correct...I think most people posting here have that IQ.

As i read your posts Star there is no question about that.........Uneducated haters should not even have access to a computer.

Who gives a flip about what anyone thinks of us? Do you think Russia, China, France, Japan or any middle eastern or African country cares what WE think of THEM? They don't like us, don't come visit or try to immigrate. We have plenty of people around the world who visit or move here because they like what we have to offer. The rest of em? Not worth worrying about.

We need to forge better friendships with our true partners - not just military allies, but partners - like Canada and the UK. The rest can piss off.

dude
It's called blind, rabid patriotism and it gives real patriotism a bad name.

"In God We Trust...The Devil We Serve"...

All done to serve the for profit prison industries, the bloated inane monopolistic hospitals & other medical services, and the various industries that supply & feed them. Recently, here in the Pittsburgh area, a father was charged with child endangerment because he transported his child to the hospital, instead of calling the Paramedics that feed the hospital with patients and the hospital's $30,000 life flight transport. This is the sanity, the percentage of Americans imprisoned has been reported as greater than any other country in the world. Looks like some severe human rights violations are occurring on the home front.

a father was charged with child endangerment because he transported his child to the hospital, instead of calling the Paramedics

That's about as nuts as the recent offering where (in addition to other charges) a parent who came home to find CPS called on her was charged w/ not providing the children w/ air conditioning b/c it was in the middle of a heat wave.

Seriously? It's now a crime to lack a/c in your home if you have kids? That's considered *child endangerment*? I can't wrap my head around that.

John, I am one of the "make love not war" generation. I remember americans protesting wherever they wanted to and not being kicked out or shot at. I also remember buying any size soda I wanted, smoking a cigarette if I wanted to, my dad lighting off fireworks in our back yard, working on our neighbors farm and having the farmer supply a beer or 2 after work. Try that today and you will be arrested. This is no longer "the land of the free".

As the article states it is an ongoing report, read the thing before you whine.

100% of posters in thread #19 think that The-COG is a full flow douchenozzle. Of course, it's an ongoing report.

Good post.

oh yeah... that's right you tell 'em Tomkat. That's exactly why 7/8's of the nations when asked, to join us in Iraq said "no thanks". But sure, if it makes you feel better, keep on blaming it on the black guy.

@ PRober Iam not blaming the black guy Iam blaming the white side of him.

Tomkat.....you made that up!.......There are so many polls out there that prove your nonsense wrong. I agree Obama is dangerous alright, just ask Bin Laden or those pirates...or all of the rest of the terrorists......go ahead and get some scuba gear and ask them!

Tomkat
America has indeed become a laughing stock, but it isn't because of Obama.

Oh yes it is sorry!

Pure BS. Like GW Bush didn't ruin our country and cause a wave that went across the rest of the world. How ignorant!!!! Iraq didn't have anything to do with 9/11 per the 911 Commission. Mission accomplish was more BS as well as WMD. Don't even try to blame this President for that crap. Read, use google and get a GD education.

We know what UN resolutions mean, squat. The UN is the most corrupt organization since the 1920's Chicago police department. All decisions and resolutions by the UN are corrupt in nature as is the 3rd world country leaders running the UN. So don't give me that "UN resolutions against Israel" crap because I know better. You anti-Israel, Islamofacistnazi loving zealots sit here in the western world enjoying the politically correct environment and the land of mediocre where everyone is a winner while the Jews sit through rocket attacks that terrify their children. So when you say we invaded Iraq for Israel, I say "SO WHAT". I would rather help Israel a thousand times over than piss on a Islamofacistnazi if he were on fire.

WOW, Robert... You sure did rebuttal all my facts with good ole' fashion truth, if that is what they call main stream media spoon fed opinion... Yeah, right, so what all those young people and hard working folks in the military died or were wounded for life for Israel... Maybe it should have been one of your kids that had this happen to them???

Now, since you know so much about how the UN works I'm sure you already know the most powerful voting block in the UN is that of our closest ally, Brittan... Yes, right, and you know why don't you, Robert? Because about 50 nations in the world recognize the queen as their monarch. Oh, I know, Robert, I know... The pro Israeli media tells us it's the Islamic voting block, but we know the truth don't we, Robert... It's just that you like seeing young Americans come home dead for Israel.

Rockets, oh, yes, the rockets... Rockets against multi million dollar weapon systems given to the Israeli's at US tax payer expense. You could never be more right about that one... Now lets talk about the kids that die at the hands of Israelis. Like the one that died a few years ago at a check point. She died of a ruptured appendix. The Israeli guards watched her die, they thought it was funny.

I wonder what you would do, Robert if the Israelis came and told you that you had to leave your home? A home that had been in your family for generations, on land that has been in your family even longer. What would you do as they dragged you and your children out of it and bulldozed it to the ground? I bet you would stand there cursing the Islamofacistnazis while quoting scripture... "God will bless those who bless Israel"... Want to make a difference, Robert? Go live in Israel, go die for it, BUT STOP SENDING OUR MILITARY TO DIE FOR YOUR MASTERS!

Should I assume, Robert that when you talk about Islamofacistnazis you are talking about people like the Shaw of Iran? You know the guy, right? The one we put into power after throwing out the rightful leader of Iran just because he wanted to use some of Iran's money to pull his nation out of poverty... Is that the Islamofascistnazis you're talking about, you mental midget?

Everyone should Google 'Rachel Cory'... 'AIPAC'... "It's a Trick, We Always Use It." (calling people "anti-Semitic") and the 'USS Liberty'... Read all about our greatest ally, and #1 aid recipient, Israel... Don't be a zombie retard like Robert... If Robert was half as smart as he thinks he is he would know the USA has become a Racist state.

"Fascism is really corporatism."

-- Benito Mussolini

Man O man Nancy, I sure hit your button. Keep your panties out of a twist and listen up silly. Your argument and rant is futile at best because the Islamofacistnazis are and will always be a bunch of animals in need of discipline and control. They are like you in a way, a petulant little child in need of a continuous spanking. Always wanting attention and when he doesn't get it, someone gets hurt or in this case insulted. So go back to kissing that Arab ass you like so much and quit humping my leg. Ciao.

And Tim, lets not forget Jonathon Pollard who our friends in Israel used to spy against us.