Sporkman
11-07-2004, 09:49 AM
Victim_of_American_Stupidity@rygzywi.net.co wrote: You blithering idiots! You re-elected that imbecile George Bush as your President. He’s a complete moron and so are most of you! - Don’t you care what the rest of the world thinks of you? Don’t you care what impact American foreign policy has on the rest of the planet? Does Iraq look like a success to anyone? Doesn’t it bother you that he’s alienated every friend you have? What were you thinking???
Well, most of us who voted for Kerry might agree with you on some
points. Bush is not terribly smart. We know for a fact that what he
can't conceive he refuses to believe is true. Witness his first press
conference in which he explicitly says that he doesn't believe some
peoples in the world don't want to be free or can't be free, because he
can't conceive of that. What he doesn't understand about peoples in
other countries can and does fill whole libraries. Many peoples don't
much care whether they are free to make their own political decisions.
They care more about whether their bellies are full. And some even care
more about whether their enemies are punished. Even more -- mostly many
Muslims -- care about whether they can impose their religion on other
peoples. And most of all they care whether someone besides their own
countrymen are calling the shots. Many Iraqis obviously would prefer a
cruel and despodic regime to any regime imposed from outside the
country. Personally I think perhaps we were only unwise to destroy the
regime and not just leave the country for the Iraqi's to clean up the
mess. That's what they and many other peoples deserve . . . probably
including you. But of course that would have been cruel. Americans are
many things, but cruel is not one of them. Instead we chose to stay and
try to help put Iraq back together, and try to help Iraqis get back on
their feet. Stupid Americans.
Well, most of us who voted for Kerry might agree with you on some
points. Bush is not terribly smart. We know for a fact that what he
can't conceive he refuses to believe is true. Witness his first press
conference in which he explicitly says that he doesn't believe some
peoples in the world don't want to be free or can't be free, because he
can't conceive of that. What he doesn't understand about peoples in
other countries can and does fill whole libraries. Many peoples don't
much care whether they are free to make their own political decisions.
They care more about whether their bellies are full. And some even care
more about whether their enemies are punished. Even more -- mostly many
Muslims -- care about whether they can impose their religion on other
peoples. And most of all they care whether someone besides their own
countrymen are calling the shots. Many Iraqis obviously would prefer a
cruel and despodic regime to any regime imposed from outside the
country. Personally I think perhaps we were only unwise to destroy the
regime and not just leave the country for the Iraqi's to clean up the
mess. That's what they and many other peoples deserve . . . probably
including you. But of course that would have been cruel. Americans are
many things, but cruel is not one of them. Instead we chose to stay and
try to help put Iraq back together, and try to help Iraqis get back on
their feet. Stupid Americans.