AMERICA SUCKS! but i can't leave....
I have come to the realization that the more and more I analyze America and its ways of doing things....the more and more I grow sick and tired of saying "I love america". So many times I have been confused as to which party I was for or against. I hear one thing from a democrats mouth and think "What an ass!"...then i hear an opposing view from a republicians mouth and think "Jerk Hole!".
I had a terrific..all-be-it.. short conversation with my mom yesterday in which i saw her eyes open along with her mind towards some of my thinkings. My mom is a hardcore christian and has been a republician since i can remember. So for her to be 'oh ya...that sounds right' to one of my views made me happy.
What did i say exactly you ask?...well im not sure but i will try to re-cap it for you.
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I had just finished watching the TERRIFIC! movie "an inconvient truth" starring former vice-president Al Gore. In the movie it showed his views and his research of global warming.
I came to my mom and told her that I had had enough with the stupid war over in Iraq and the mindset of the overall american who feels the war is "a good thing". I told my mom that people have to realize that America is not the good guy in the world right now...we havent been the good guy since Bush took office.
This is where she first stopped me. She said, "matt, didnt you support bush at first"...Why yes mom, i did. When i was younger and more ignorant of the surrounding world and when i ACTUALLY thought the war would have been quick and simple(as it could have been).
People hate america because we think OUR is better than theirs. When all reality...it just depends on who is running it. Our government is great with the right person and horrible with the wrong person behind the oval office desk.
Ok let me explain. Back before WWII, communist thought their government was better than the rest of the worlds and for that reason, they started to try and take it(the world) over. They were arrogant and tried to force their government on certain countries.
-------hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..............who does THIS sound like. Well it sounds like America (as of the Iraqi war).
WHHHHHAAAAA!???!?!?!!!?? you say. Well hear me out. America went into Afghanistan at first and told them(after being there for a year or so) that the country should try Democracy...well they did after a little coaxing. Next we went into Iraq and the same thing happened. We did what we wanted to do "take out Saddam"...then we stayed....why? To try and convert their government into Democracy...and we have somewhat.
Who next? no clue..but im sure it will be someone we dont like.
This didn't start with those two coutries either. Back in WWII this happened with Guam (we were stationed there for a while and eventually 'recruited' the country as a nation of the USA)...again same thing with Puerto Rico. And a much larger country JAPAN! Yes, we told them at the end of WWII that we wouldnt completely destroy them if they would just be our friends and over the course they have slowly moved into a more Democratic nation.
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I also brought up the fact that it seems "ALRIGHT" for America to go into middle eastern countries and kill more than half a million people for our cause....but it seems "WRONG" for middle easterns to kill within their own coutry for their cause.....
Also, why can AMERICA go into other countries with tanks and military men parading around taking the country over sector by sector...and it is wrong for mexicans to cross a border and live
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if America wanted to be the best nation it possibly could be. We should try and make what is wrong in the world right...not militarially but in other ways. We should not spend 235095923509 BILLION dollars on troops and warfare.....the money should go into fixing the Global Warming issue, the famine in other coutries, protecting the mexican border from immigrants, or some other good causes such as those.
America thinks it is the best country simply because we are more advanced in the military...but in morals and beliefs we are ages behind.
I had a terrific..all-be-it.. short conversation with my mom yesterday in which i saw her eyes open along with her mind towards some of my thinkings. My mom is a hardcore christian and has been a republician since i can remember. So for her to be 'oh ya...that sounds right' to one of my views made me happy.
What did i say exactly you ask?...well im not sure but i will try to re-cap it for you.
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I had just finished watching the TERRIFIC! movie "an inconvient truth" starring former vice-president Al Gore. In the movie it showed his views and his research of global warming.
I came to my mom and told her that I had had enough with the stupid war over in Iraq and the mindset of the overall american who feels the war is "a good thing". I told my mom that people have to realize that America is not the good guy in the world right now...we havent been the good guy since Bush took office.
This is where she first stopped me. She said, "matt, didnt you support bush at first"...Why yes mom, i did. When i was younger and more ignorant of the surrounding world and when i ACTUALLY thought the war would have been quick and simple(as it could have been).
People hate america because we think OUR is better than theirs. When all reality...it just depends on who is running it. Our government is great with the right person and horrible with the wrong person behind the oval office desk.
Ok let me explain. Back before WWII, communist thought their government was better than the rest of the worlds and for that reason, they started to try and take it(the world) over. They were arrogant and tried to force their government on certain countries.
-------hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..............who does THIS sound like. Well it sounds like America (as of the Iraqi war).
WHHHHHAAAAA!???!?!?!!!?? you say. Well hear me out. America went into Afghanistan at first and told them(after being there for a year or so) that the country should try Democracy...well they did after a little coaxing. Next we went into Iraq and the same thing happened. We did what we wanted to do "take out Saddam"...then we stayed....why? To try and convert their government into Democracy...and we have somewhat.
Who next? no clue..but im sure it will be someone we dont like.
This didn't start with those two coutries either. Back in WWII this happened with Guam (we were stationed there for a while and eventually 'recruited' the country as a nation of the USA)...again same thing with Puerto Rico. And a much larger country JAPAN! Yes, we told them at the end of WWII that we wouldnt completely destroy them if they would just be our friends and over the course they have slowly moved into a more Democratic nation.
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I also brought up the fact that it seems "ALRIGHT" for America to go into middle eastern countries and kill more than half a million people for our cause....but it seems "WRONG" for middle easterns to kill within their own coutry for their cause.....
Also, why can AMERICA go into other countries with tanks and military men parading around taking the country over sector by sector...and it is wrong for mexicans to cross a border and live
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if America wanted to be the best nation it possibly could be. We should try and make what is wrong in the world right...not militarially but in other ways. We should not spend 235095923509 BILLION dollars on troops and warfare.....the money should go into fixing the Global Warming issue, the famine in other coutries, protecting the mexican border from immigrants, or some other good causes such as those.
America thinks it is the best country simply because we are more advanced in the military...but in morals and beliefs we are ages behind.