From the essay:
[i]Better, therefore, if the next president focuses on keeping America strong and secure, rather than on pleasing those who will never like the United States, even if its foreign policy changes.
Better, also, for the next president to focus on wielding American power wisely, because doing so will earn the United States (grudging) respect, which in the game of unstable relationships that characterizes modern statecraft, is far more important than love.[/i]
This leaves me wondering, is america strong and secure at the moment? I see a country that has been undecided about it’s course since the fall of communism. Fighting muslim terrorism just doesn’t suffice as a modus operandi, the fall of CCCP was a hard blow for both US and James Bond. Okay, the last Bond was good, but his adversaries are still weak.
Odd as it is, sometimes people hate those who help them. The USA has spent so much money and blood making Europe civilised, the Europeans realize they could never hope to pay back America for all America has done for them. They come to resent feeling that way and it turned into hate.
Europeans also are distressed by their countries being overrun by Muslim hordes, swarming and teeming masses ready to shred the European way of life. They have to vent this anger somewhere, but want to NOT irritate the car bombers and train bombers. ( That explains a LOT.) So they bag on our country.
[quote]Chushin wrote:
orion wrote:
Chushin wrote:
orion wrote:
Americans that are easily manipulated and do not give a shit
Oh my! Are you denigrating the American people?
No, sheeple in general
So then, do you mean that there are “sheeple” everywhere? Even in Austria?[/quote]
Have you guys ever noticed that people that use the term “sheeple” are often blind followers of a particular ideology and are generally herd followers?