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Absolutely. US is both a amazing country, and a very odd country... I believed to have a good grasp of what US was and was it once stand for, but today I know little or nothing about US.. And I don't know how it is for an american living outside the US to se in and look about what is happened in the US the last couple of years..
Funny you have to stop yourself and thing that this is not how reasonable thinking people are doing things. Is sounds like you are on your way to recovery after all then;:P But it must be little weird to really have to think that you have to think different on the outside, than on the inside of US...
Yes many american still believe the US to be the marvel of the world.. The centerpiece in civilization, and that Europe are in deer need of distress and are still an out bombed poor continent.. And that is not correct.. Well we still need US to help us guard our continent. We are pro bely not that found of military forces after two world wars and a lot of other wars.. And we do have a public sector who are using a fair share of our wealth to the better of people (hopefully;) ) For the most part European do have running water, sanitation, electricity and so on. But some part are poor, and would need a long time of help before they truly are in the same liga as the rest of the european continent.. We do have our fair share of problems, both ethical and political but as long as we try to make it better, by peace I really believe it to be better than to use brute military force...
The situation in Iraq are just horrible, and It really piss my off when you se that ********* excuse for a man stand on a podie and say that everything is Ok, in Iraq, when it is not... And it irritate my down the tubes when the right wingers of this world are telling that Iraq is a success history. If it is, why are Iraq then a country falling apart, with a living standard the same that the country had for more than 40 year ago?.. And a government with little power outside the Green Zone inside Baghad...
Well I can shoos my doctor if I want to do it. But my current doctor are a good doctor. I believe she is german of origin, and a good doctor as that.. So when I need medical attention she is pretty good.. So I guess as long as I am happy about my doctor I would not chose another.. But I cannot understand for my dear life why america choose to pay a lot of insurance when you can get almost free doctor and medical help.. When I was hospitalized some year ago, I really doubt my medical help was inexpencive... In fact if I had been in a "free" country with no public healtcare I could have either had died, or had a medical bill the seize of World Trade Center... No bill, pretty good doctors and nurses, and medical help so I could walk out of the hospital a week later.. Then when I think about it, I am pretty happy to pay my taxes, even if it means that I have to pay little more than I need to do:). I know it is for something important...
US have to take advice sometime down the road.. US may be a superpower, but if US are not to take some advice from the rest of the world, you may find yourself without friends, and without allied... USA as a country would be much better of if she listen to the rest of the world sometimes.. And as many, included myself in the build up to the Iraq war was saying. When many people complain about the fact that the most of europe was strongly against the war. EVEN in the country where the government was so happy to help US, the public was as large very against the war.. A good friend must always tell the other friend that they are doing some wrong. Even if it means that the stronger friend be offended":. And in Iraq, for the most part we do had it right, when we told US to back of military solution... But US was gearing for war, the inspectors was told to go home, and 8-9 days later the war was here...
It is ironically that US try to learn other how to elect when the last couple of elections have been of so low standard that a 3 world country would have manage to cheat and lie better.. And they even had some better experience with cheating at the polls stand to.. This electronic devices who some states are using in US, are just stupid.. What is wrong with the paper ballot?:. It have worked in many year, and it is still working for the most part in many parts of the world. Why should US this machines, when the paper ballot are so much better?.. And safer because then you can go back and count it when something is wrong... Even in the Soviet system, when everyone understand and know that the ballot was tinted they do managed to have elections... But not in US, they have to make a show about everything.. The election in 2000 was just a embarrassing as everything I ever had seen on TV.. It was so clear that something was "fishy" about that election... And in 2004 then to the election was pretty fishy in many states.. What would be the fact in the upcoming election?.. I have no clue, but I would be surprised if someone wanted a different outcome than the fact on the ground is... Specially if the election was going to a Democratic candidate...
Yes I know about the Bolivian water privatized thing.. What a horrible thing to do to a poor country,. It is just sick, sick sick... Water is something everyone have to have.. And then to get it to the same companies who are pushing for privatization... Water is Gold in many parts of the world you know... And I guess many year down the road water would be a thing to fight over, as oil are today...
US treated North Korea with military forces, if they don't stop their nuclear production. And then some year down the road the North Korean was blowing a nuclear device. To say don't threatened us, we have the know-how to build many more if we need to.. After the fact that North Korea had used a nuclear device, the sound from Washington DC was almost 180 degrees different from what they was before the nuclear explosion.. And the current administration are buying off North Korea, the same way that Clinton tried to get North Korea to stop nuclear armament in the 1990s. Mr Bush wasted a lot of time and money to try to do the opposite of what Clinton had been doing for a 8 year... And it was falling down, to do the same thing that mr Clinton was doing after all...
True, you are so true.. many believe that the rest of the world is still a wasteland of primitive peoples who don't know how to live their life at best. And as long as you are been told from you are a toddler that your country is the best of the best. And that everyone else is just bad. Then you grow up to believe in that... The shock when you are coming outside and learn that not everything US are doing are the best must be shocking for they who venture outside of US.. Specially when you are coming to parts in Europe and Asia?.. When half the population in US not have a passport and don't travel outside of your own country, you may experience that type of behavour?...
Many american have good of coming out of the country for a while and se that not everything is greatest in the US. I know a few american who have been outside of US and they are surprised when they realized that not everything is bad on the outside...
But I do have the faith in US even today. I just hope that enough people are waking up, and find that the current ideology is wrong, and a way forward would be to learn from other country's to...
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Sorry my bad English, not my native language
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