NorthernGent
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that the US is damned if they do and damned if they don't do "something" about Libya (or other political hotspots right now)?
Listening to the BBC overnight and NPR during the day, they have reported on both attitudes from people interviewed.
There are those who say we should enforce a no fly zone. Don't they realize only the threat of force would make that effective? We can't afford the conflicts we are in now. We can't afford our domestic policies!
We are being slammed for not being forceful enough. When Obama says our sympathies are with the protestors, we are accused of not doing enough.
What the heck? We're imperialistic interlopers if we do anything, and we're do-nothings if we don't go in full bore, guns blazing. We're mighty damn convenient for other "first-world" countries to point a finger at.
I know once this is posted, content can't be guaranteed, but please let's not devolve into right and left sniping (please, with sugar on top??).
Hlen, depsite what you may think based on the few English who post on here (and it's fair to say most tow the line because human beings like to be part of the group), about 99.9% of people in this country couldn't care less what you do and couldn't tell New York from Alabama on a map. A few wry smiles as the self-proclaimed freedom country (not the only one by the way, you can put Britain and France in that bracket, too) runs amok around the world, granted, but all in all you're not really on the radar - France has been the object of our attention for hundreds of years and will continue to be our adversary for the forseeable future. And the wry smiles acknowledge that you're not doing anything that we haven't done - that's politics - more a case that you (as a country) seem more susceptible to actually believing the righteousness of the actions of your government and foreign policy.
You seem like a decent enough lot, but you ain't anywhere near as important as you'd like to think. You're not damned if you don't etc.
And, someone will put some links to some newspaper reports here and there, but these people have to write something in the international section. I would say that by and large you get a decent write up in this country - primarily for music and films. People in this country understand that what you're doing now has been done before by the English - the spread of liberal values around the world. I mean, you took the baton from us, so you ain't damned here. It's more a case that we know what we are; you seem to think you're something entirely different to what your actions suggest.
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