Evil Empire **Old Post from 6-07**

I'm sure that world opinion for the USA is low. Around the world, there are places were Americans are not welcome. Hey, what's new. I'm sure that if we stopped everything, we would be every one's best friend: if we stopped financing the rest of the free world, if we pulled all of our troops from foreign lands, if we stopped financing the U.N., if we stopped everything and only took care of ourselves, we would be every one's favorite nation. YEAH RIGHT. We tried that before and it didn't work.
I keep hearing that our foreign policy is horrible. We are bullies. We are the modern plunderers. We only help countries where we can gain something of value. Our track record is so bad. After WWI, we didn't keep half of Europe. After WWII we didn't keep half of Europe. We didn't keep parts of Africa. We didn't keep Japan. We didn't keep China. We didn't keep nothing. We rebuilt it. We fed them. We started their industries. We paid the bill for mad men and we looked bad for doing it.
Korea, Vietnam and Southeast Asia is such a gold mine for natural resources. It was all our fault. Just ask half of the U.S. and the rest of the world. It was our fault that we tried to help someone that didn't want to be helped. Or at least, help someone that won't help themselves. But in reality, talking about it wouldn't have solved anything but that didn't matter to the rest of the world. They just want someone to blame. Someone to point a finger at and say, "It's their fault". Simply put we will always be the bad guys no matter what as long as we are at the top and willing to help, not just talk about helping.
The Middle East. Wow. If we do, we are blamed. If we don't, we are blamed. If we protect, we are killing. If we don't protect, we are killing. If we wait, we are at fault. If we do something, we are bat fault. If we go thru the U.N., it doesn't do anything and we are blamed. If we don't go thru the U.N., we are blamed. SHIT, just drop the freaking bomb and get it over with. If we are gonna be blamed no matter what, DO SOMETHING THAT IS WORTH THE BLAME. STOP THE MADNESS. BLOW THE FUCKER'S OFF THE MAP.
Our actions do cause reactions around the rest of the world. Our inaction does too. Nothing we do or don't do, will change any of this. But September 11, was not caused by our actions or our inaction. Nope. It was because of who we are. We are the devil. The non-believers. We are the blame for every one's short comings. If you don't believe me, just ask around.
Maybe America is oppressive just because we are who we are. I'm sorry that my buying power is oppressive to Nigeria or China. I'm sorry that the strength of this country is oppressive to other countries. I'm not sorry that we are strong. I'm not sorry that I have a sense of security. I'm not sorry that I have things. I will not apologise for my families hard work. I will not apologise for this countries hard work. I will not apologise and feel bad because there is someone that always looks to blame ME for their own lack of security and well being. I'm sick of shit like that. It's always somebody else's fault. No one will take responsibility for anything. But I am sorry. I'm sorry that there are people in this country that believe we are the bad guys. But what's new there ( by the way this is a by product of a strong "free" society). The only thing that ever changes their minds about anything is if something is taken away from them, then suddenly it's different.
If you don't fight for what you believe, you don't believe in anything. If you believe the U.S. is the oppressors in this world, join the other side. Stand up for your beliefs because I WILL for mine.
As far as Iraq goes. Look at it like this. If you walked in and found someone raping you sister.
Would you ask him to stop and tell him to go home?
Would you turn around and ignore it?
Would you get a group of people to study and define what is rape?
Would you get him to stop while you call for help?
Would you stop him YOURSELF?
Iraq raped Kuwait? And Bush Sr stopped him and told him to go home. "W" Bush ended it finally. He put a stop to Saddam's raping. Maybe it was a bad thing for Iraqi's or maybe not, but hey, you play your hand. If you let a mad man like Saddam do the stuff he was doing, maybe you have to be willing pay the price. Germans did. Japanese did. Italians did. Afghan's did. SO on and so on.
All of this crap separating Americans hurts me. It doesn't make me mad as much as it hurts my feelings. I makes me distrust my fellow Americans, the people that live next to me. If I can't trust the people that live near me, how can I trust anyone except my family. See I want to trust. I want to believe in other people. I want to know that if I am being attacked by someone, my neighbors will come to my rescue. People telling me how bad something is, is meaningless. There are some things that require more than words. I want to know that if I need someone, they will be there. But I don't get that. I feel that if I am being attacked, most people will ignore it or at best, may call for help. To me it seems that few can be bothered to risk personal safety to help. In my view, there is little comfort in someone calling for help in most situations. Sometimes action is needed.
But I do understand about talking about differences. I do understand. But I also understand that there are some people that will not change. There are some that will talk to you like a friend and then stab you in the back at the first chance. And there are times when talking is just putting off the inevitable. If someone comes at me with a scowl and a clinched fist, I will not try to talk to them. I will try my best to land the first punch. Then the second. Then the third. Then the fourth............ In my part of the world, if you act like you want a fight, someone will oblige you. In other words, if you act like a bad ass, you better be a bad ass. Some of the nicest people in the world will stomp your butt into a mud hole if you act like an asshole. It's a simple fact. In my part of the world, you don't wait for someone to do something. In my part of the world, you don't wait for the inevitable. In my part of the world, talk is cheap. Words mean nothing, action is what people rely on. You don't go to a person that talks but never does anything, for help. You go to a person that has proven in the past BY THEIR ACTIONS what they stand for and who they are. Simple way of life for simple people maybe.
But on the world stage, nothing is ever more complicated than when you try to get a bunch of people ( political sociopaths ) from different areas of the world to sit around and agree on anything without first thinking of how they can come out of it with the most.