Quote: "Wake up to reality, you can't judge an entire country based on what you observe over in your neck of the woods and on the news."
I spent 5years in your country in several different areas.
The respect I have for the American people is very little as a result.. the whole nation is based around providing an image of themselves. A nice friendly nation, who is just so nice and close knit.
But then you actually bother sitting down and observing the nation.
Don't give me any BS about the 'tolerance' of the people, there os no real tolerance for any other race .. as far as your conserned if someone is from a 'given' nation immediately they are treated like the stereotype you see; in order to keep trouble from happening you have to make sure you seperate everyone. You can't have hispanics living in the same area if as the Anglos. You can't have the Jewish living in the same area as the Catholics.
In Ireland you can respect why this is the case, there is a reason for it. What's the reason in the United States?
Where's the reasoning behind tolerance when some gay kid is locked in a church for several hours; doesn't like how he's treated so rather than feeling like the police will actually do anything feels that getting together with his gay buddies to start a protest against anyone with homophobia and have yet another band of people singled out because of a few retarded morons is the best way to get something done.
Or how about just going into a store or resturant.. you ask for something and your waiter is all nice and perky. I WTF, this guy has been on his feet 12hrs, he's about as perky as Charles Manson. I don't want my shop assistant BSing me to get some dumbass commision, I don't want my waiter's eye twitching at me each time he tries to make a pleasentry.
No, but that's how things work isn't it. No matter how aweful your life is.. you must make sure that everyone around you sees a happy face. No matter how predudice is, those from the outside must see how 'tolerant' you are.
The United States wants to HELP THE WORLD... but it can't even get [censored] right in it's own damn boarders! Who the hell says that the United States way is the right way? Well??
This is the damn problem too, your going out there forcing your way of life on other cultures because you think thier own is bad.
Why? Did you ever stop to ask them: Would you like to live the American Dream? Hell try asking some of your own citizens sometime. Doubt you'd get a positive answer.
Quote: "The UN made itself a joke when it failed to act on, what, 18, 19 resolutions it had laid down on Iraq before. It was an ineffectual and outdated institution long before the Iraq situation brought it to light. If a council of world leaders cannot reach an agreement months after a promised deadline, time and time again, who is going to take them seriously?
Accusing the US of wrecking the UN is like accusing a passenger for crashing a major overseas flight because they were being disruptive during the crash."
The United Nations wanted to make sure that checks were properly conducted. Despite what the President and News told you, what Saddam and Iraq has done wasn't delaying tactics.. if you want to think of it; it's like when you come home from school and find that your bedroom door has been forceably opened.
Why? Because your mom thought for some reason your doing drugs. So that immediately gives her a right to turn over your room, without asking permission for entry. Just because your not actually hiding anything or guilty of what they're accusing you off; you get quickly aggrovated because your privacy is being broken on someone's hunch. Does she have any possible evidence to back this claim up? No but she is going to search regardless.
The end result is your standing there getting stressed trying to explain to her she doesn't need to throw your cloths about your room trying to find something that isn't there.
This is the same on a grander scale. Saddam could never have gone to war, the UN knew this. Otherwise they would've sent in the peacekeepers to forecably do the checks. While the UN did over the past 10years find things which Iraq shouldn't have had.. it wasn't what they were expecting to find or any external threat.
Like say your mom finds your secret stash of porno. Yeah you'll get some looks, but it's just a magazine; nothing bad or illegal about it per say.
That's the situation. But rather than letting it being resolved peacefully and without bloodshed that neitherside wanted the US got impatient and stormed in. The result thousands dead on both sides and relations shattered. Did they find what they claimed Saddam had?
No, they only found his stash of porno. Rather than apologising for the actions they took, the United States declared it as some 'victory over terrorism'.
Yeah way to go retards.. next time you wanna try actually fighting a battle that conserns you? No I don't agree with how Saddam ruled his country or what he had done over the years.
Fact of the matter is, it was Iraqi's internal affair. There was no right for us to interfere. That is what our 'superior' morals dictate is it not? That we cannot fight every little mans battle for them, but pick and choose to help keep our way of life safe.
