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Originally posted by MisterJLA:
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I met "humanitarian workers" in Baghdad who, even as they decried the U.S. "occupation" of the country, would fall into an embarrassed silence when I mentioned Saddam’s atrocities, and "peace activists" who suggested that the terrible image the world has of Saddam Hussein was largely the creation of "U.S. propaganda." One Dutch photographer argued that Saddam’s attack on Iran was no worse than "America’s invasion of Vietnam" and that Baath-party members were mostly "guys just looking for jobs." When I tried to describe to a worker for a Canadian NGO some of the findings of the human-rights association, he shrugged and waggled his hand as if to say, "Yeah, yeah, we’ve heard all this before." Impatiently, he burst out: "Yours is the real rogue nation."

Remind you of anyone?

:lol:
It's great to hate the United States.

But it just seems so much more logical to hate the countries that are committing genocide and real opression, rather than the U.S.
For all its faults, the U.S. provides humanitarian aid and a lot of other good in the world.
Kosovo, Bosnia, Haiti, Germany and Japan have all benefitted from America's "rogue"-ish unilateralism. If not for U.S. unilateralism, a few million more people would have been dead in Bosnia, Kosovo and elsewhere.

Indonesia and Mexico as well have received HUGE financial bailouts from the U.S. As well as huge amounts of foreign aid to virtually all of the third world.

I can't help thinking how supremely ungrateful so many nations of the world are to the U.S.

No matter how much the U.S. does, the charge can always be made that it's not enough.