Originally Posted by C4Casey How much the world hates us is way overblown. I was in Italy for three weeks over the summer, and I wore my uniform into town at least three times. All of the Italians I interacted with were very polite and respectful towards me. Its not ...
08-27-2008, 02:19 AM
| #101 | ||||
| Viva Fidel  Socialist Glasgow, Scotland, UK 
| Originally Posted by C4Casey Its not that they hate you as people. There is hate for US foreign policy. When i'm abroad people are nothing but pleasant to me, but i am pretty sure if i got in a comment about politics peoples annoyance at the UK's role in the world would become known. 
__________________ "Our every action is a battle cry against imperialism, and a battle hymn for the people's unity against the great enemy of mankind: the United States of America. Wherever death may surprise us, let it be welcome, provided that this, our battle cry, may have reached some receptive ear, that another hand may be extended to wield our weapons, and that other men be ready to intone our funeral dirge with the staccato singing of the machine guns and new battle cries of war and victory" - Che | ||||
     |
|
08-27-2008, 02:22 AM
| #102 | ||||
| Lurker  Conservative Party
| Originally Posted by Joe Castro Yeah, true. Plus I was in Italy, and they had just elected a very pro-American government.
| ||||
| |
|
09-09-2008, 12:59 AM
| #103 | ||||
| Member  Independent
| Is it just because the ability of the media to communicate easier than ever before, is is the world becoming much more hostile? Kinda spooky. | ||||
| |
|
09-09-2008, 06:19 PM
| #104 | ||||
| Lurker Conservative Party
| Originally Posted by Heres Johnny The world's getting more hostile, but it's been way more hostile in the past. Relations with Russia are bad, but still not as bad as the Cold War. And before that you had WWII, WWI, and countless wars during the 19th and 18th century.
| ||||
| |
|
09-10-2008, 05:48 AM
| #105 | ||||
| Member Independent
| Yeah I Guess, But it kinda seems like the superpowers really wanna clash. | ||||
| |
| Register to Post a Reply |
| Bookmarks |
| Tags |
| georgia, hypocrisy, invasion, medvedev, occupation, putin, russia, south ossetia, usa, war, war south ossetia |
| ||||||
| Thread Tools | |
| |
| vBulletin 3.7.4 -- Copyright ©2000 - 2008, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. | Custom Artwork and Theme (TM) 2006, Liberty Lounge |
