Poll suggests world hostile to US

by Simon 203 Replies latest social current

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  donkey

  Englishman,

  Now I am confused - afterall I was agreeing with you guys...
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  Jayson

  Both of these sources are in previous posts I made.
  

  http://times.discovery.com/convergence/rootsof911/rootsof911.html

  New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, spent several months traveling through the Muslim world last year, interviewing leaders and people of the street as he tried to uncover some of the causes of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. The resulting portrait of Muslim rage and distrust towards America is Thomas L. Friedman Reporting: Searching for the Roots of 9/11

  My suggesting this as a non-bias documentary is this the proof of my ignorant pro Fox stance Simon? My inability to handle a critic of America? It goes in line with your poll thread as well as every other thread on this topic you start. But you dismiss it and me and end with an emotional insult.

  "World on Fire" Amy Chua

  http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?WRD=amy+chua&userid=4784HVUMWY

  She is a Yale Professor.
  

  From the Publisher

  Every few years, a book is published about America's role in the world and the changing contest of global affairs that gets everyone thinking in a new way. Amy Chua's WORLD ON FIRE will have exactly that kind of impact on the debate of how the world has changed in light of the events of last September.
  Apostles of globalization, such as Thomas Friedman, believe that exporting free markets and democracy to other countries will increase peace and prosperity throughout the developing world; Amy Chua is the anti-Thomas Friedman. Her book wil be a dash of cold water in the face of globalists, techno-utopians, and liberal triumphalists as she shows that just the opposite has happened: When global markets open, ethnic conflict worsens and politics turns ugly and violent.
  Drawing on examples from around the world--from Africa and Asia to Russia and Latin America--Chua examines how free markets do not spread wealth evenly throughout the whole of these societies. Instead they produce a new class of extremely wealthy plutocrats--individuals as rich as nations. Almost always members of a minority group--Chinese in the Philippines, Croatians in the former Yugoslavia, whites in Latin America, Indians in East Africa, Jews in post-communist Russia--these "market-dominant minorities" have become targets of violent hatred. Adding democracy to this volatile mix unleashes supressed ethnic hatreds and brings to power ethnonationalist governments that pursue aggressive policies of confiscation and revenge. Chua further shows how individual countries are often viewed as dominant minorities, explaining the phenomena of ethnic resentment in the Arab-Israeli conflict and the rising tideof anti-American sentiment around the world. This more than anything accounts for the visceral hatred of Americans that has been expressed in recent acts of terrorism.
  Bold and original, WORLD ON FIRE is a perceptive examination of the far-reaching effects of exporting capitalism with democracy and its potentially catastrophic results.

  I would love to hear how you box this in your Jayson is a puss who can't handle America being critizied. See Simon I can be of critical thinking and give real sources outside the BBC. Who is the source of your bias poll FYI. And that is just one more reason that I say you are not looking at all the facts. And to feed the hate bush feelings you have one just don't have to look beyond the BBC.

  As for "awards" who is the BBC's competitors? Who funds them? Simon, saying that you are against all governments may excite the libertarians but for those of us outside of cults we don't by it. Saying that all parties must be met from the view of a skeptic is OK only if you are willing to cast judgment. That the poll you bring forth claims those polled see America and terrorists as equals and that you defend it mind you speaks for itself as to the ability to be a skeptic. As your dismissing the above sources of information, that shows something about you as well. You start the threads and then you can't hack it. If you don't want people to learn anything and your goal is to make people feel pissed off and pissed on, good job, your a god.

  For those who really want to have some understanding, Americans for sure, look at the links and take the time to read up on what I have brought here. It's worth your time.
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  Simon

  probably a topic for another thread, but I'd like to follow up this notion of exporting democracy to the rest of the world.

  donkey, I would prefer not to have your support thank you all the same.
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  Englishman

  OK Good People, I think that we are now going around in circles, so I'm bringing this thread to an end.

  Thanks everyone for your input.

  Englishman.