One year later...

[Oz Referee]

Originally posted by JRutledge
You have to understand that Americans are very arrogant. We think we do no wrong and the world is so evil. We spend more time talking about the injustices all over the world and cannot see that the world questions our decisions or policies. We see Israel as competely clean, but look at the Arabs as completely evil. If I am not mistaken, Israel has killed many innocent people over the region, but we do not call that terroism. We have an American flag wavied on the same truck with a Confedrate flag (representing a Confederacy that we defeated in war mind you), but question the loyalty of an Arab that wears clothes or looks like a "terrorist" all based on their religion.

Understand that not all people in America look at the Stars and Stripes the same way. I can tell show you an association that when 9-11 happen, almost entirely did not support Officials wearing the American Flag on our arm like the other associations.

Trust me, not all in America agrees with what happen, why it happen and what to do about it. Better yet, not everyone is in support of this President. If this country has greatness, that is the part that makes it great.

Peace

Rut,

It's not often on this board that I have said this - but I agree with you completely.

The other thing I have found is that the majority of Americans have difficulty differentiating between critisicm of the American Government and of America.

I love America - any nation that can create such great sports (gridiron, basketball), music (jazz, hip-hop), art, educational facilities, that can give birth to such fantastic personalities - Edison, Washinton, Martin Luther King Jnr, to name a few, is pretty good in my opinion. I simply strongly object to some of the political decisions that have been made in the past by American politicians.

And since the decisions made by American politicans affect me more than the decisions made by, say French politicians, then these are the ones that I get upset by.