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ORIGINAL: SilverMark

Having posted on Global Political boards, I know that what Mr Bukani says is very correct, in as much as he says, the European view of America is not at all pleasant.

There are many who blame the US for everything Israel does with a great deal of veiled anti-semitic remarks, and they view us as a bully, who has never done anything but crush other countries.

I have thick skin, so it doesn't rile me much, but I have seen some pretty ugly posts go back and forth, and at times we American's can look a bit less than bright via our government's actions.

It seems most of those who pick at everything the US does come from countries that are small, have no real foriegn interaction of any note, and spend their GDP on domestic issues.

They may have something with the spending on domestic issues, and less on military and other countries, our educational system is a great example.

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ORIGINAL: Fellow

Should we consider it a three way problem: the US, Europe and so called New World Order. NWO is a transnational ideology based on neo-liberal globalized economic model. We have wars that specifically do not benefit any Western nation, financial order like Euro project (transnational ideological move), multinational banks and corporations financially the size of a country etc.... Qaddafi assassination would be a good example. The US spent more than a billion dollars for accomplishing the task, but how the country actually benefited from it? They killed Saddam Hussein and close to million Iraq citizens spending a trillion, but what the country gained? Also, building China as a giant factory is not a project an average American or European is expected to gain.

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ORIGINAL: MariaB

Looks like a 1980s plastic fantastic to me [8|]

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ORIGINAL: MrBukani

Do you need your friends to defend you?

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another one who thinks US citizens are the only ones who count.

what about native "inhabitants", "American nationals", "resident aliens", do they count in your microscopic world?