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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
You keep saying that, as if the U.S. hasn't actually caused any of those problems... and to justify Americans' being too petty to rise above insults from anonymous foreigners and Do the Right Thing, too small-minded to prove that we can be better than they are, better than they think we are. Is that, in fact, how you feel about America?
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If I may remind you, your first post was all about America's need for change to help the world. I'm merely pointing out that's there a lot of other people in the world causing the same problems (if they are problems) and a narrow, unifocus, view on America's causitive/curative role is in essense loading all the world's problems on one set of shoulders. That may not be what you're saying, but that's what I'm reading. And I disagree with it.
Do the Right Thing (your caps, not mine). That's do Steve Jordan's right thing. It's not a universal belief. You beliefs, no matter how firmly held, do not (and should not) force me to follow them. That's called liberty. The right to do the
wrong thing if I see fit. That's what America was founded (warts and all) on.
As to the rest of the world, I don't think of them. (spot the quote) I have no interest in the "white man's burden". I believe in trading fairly with other people. I believe in peace through strength. And I believe in letting people have responsibility for their own lives. Based on your words, you want to remake the world in the image of your needs and concerns.
Non Servum
Ralph Sir Edward