Your opinion about the USA

Nah, all this and im not sold. Im still convinced that those who hate us around the world is because our movies have gotten really bad over the past decade.

Originally posted by Komnenos If that great Shakespearian actress together with her silicon chest and with both of her braincells wanted to come to America, than it can be all bad there!

Yeah, shes a class act eh?  ...and one of our newest citizens we can really be proud of.        She actually was very cute before she moved to the US from BC.

Originally posted by Gavriel So if USA can bomb Afghanistan/Iraq for harbouring terrorists can Britain bomb Dublin?

Absolutely!
And Glasgow and London for harbouring the Protestant terrorist organisations UVF/UFF !

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Ironic coming from a country which doesn't dare offend the Chinese, because it's too dependent on China picking up the tab at the Treasury bill sales every month.

I'll stay out of the America is great/America sucks debate. I do work in the area of international trade, I know for certain the Chinese are terribly nervous about US trade sanctions which would hurt their ability to export here and impact growth. Much of the debt owed to China is to fuel the export of their products to the U.S. market, so the cards, in a sense are biased in the U.S. economy's favor ie; the U.S. effort to pay back debt owed is less painful then the slower or negative growth the Chinese would incur by sanctions.  Even with WTO accession, the Chinese have enough abuses in intellectual property, dumping and labor infractions that sanctions would probably hold.  Only 22% of U.S. debt was owed to registered foreign investors in December of 2003. Of that 22% only around 10% is owed to China (June 2004).  Around 40% is owed to Japan, which has it's own debt problems (see below).

National debt isn't something owed for nothing; it consists of outlays for infastructure, education, health, research, defense, etc.  The debtor really doesn't matter, especially when that debtor- China- has it's growth linked to the US market. To put in some perspective, Germany's national debt is at similar per capita levels as the U.S. and the Austrians, Belgians, Italians and Japanese have far greater national debt per capita than the U.S. (I believe Japan's national debt now lies at around 120% of GDP).


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I see a lot of intervention on the part of the US.  We support the better of two opositions.  Democraies are not perfect.  No form of government is.  But America is a very good example and has set the way for amny other countries.

I am sorry, I am not familiar with Somoza, Batista, Pinochet, or Huerta.

However, with the US helping Saddam, it was a good thing at the time.  We could either help him or someone who was worse.  It may not look like a good decision now,but it probally looked different back then.

Originally posted by Genghis � Somoza, even though�I don't know much about him, I also believe led his own coup.�

The Somozas were a whole family of brutal dictators that ruled Nicaragua for half a century as a family enterprise, exploiting its wealth and surpressing any opposition.
When finally the people of Nicaragua had enough and tried under the leadership of the leftish Sandinista movement to overthrow the gangsters, the American government kept on supporting the last Somoza financially and militarily, until in 1979 they finally lost another faithful ally.

Thank you for pointing out my spelling, Mixcoatl.

If its not up to the US then who is it up to?  God? 

Originally posted by vulkan02 I think a lot of American girls are hot.

Yeah, I really fancied that one, what was she called again, the one who was sent to prison for torturing Iraqi prisoners? Anybody know her name or has a photo?

u mean this one?
Lyndee England
I think she might be one of those sado-masochastic dominatrix girls
i feel bad for the dude tho he's humiliated. Nonetheless a lot of American girls especially around Texas are pretty... too bad our nation has a medieval and very individualistic mentality.




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Originally posted by vulkan02 too bad our nation has a medieval and very individualistic mentality.

You think we are individualistic and medieval in our mentality?  I must disagree.  I believe we are a nation that sticks together especially in hard times.  Except for around election time, of course!

As for our mentality, compare it to most countries in the Middle East.