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Originally posted by Kryties
reply to post by air101
Nice try. This isn't a "my penis is bigger than your penis" conversation - no matter how much you try to make into that.
Originally posted by Kryties
reply to post by air101
Again, I won't be baited into a "my country is better than yours" argument. The simple fact is that if America wishes to be a world superpower, poking it's nose into others affairs and policing the world then it should be prepared to accept criticism without crying like a baby and crying "hate" every time.
Originally posted by Kryties
reply to post by air101
Lol. You just keep plowing on with the ignorance don't you? This thread isn't about what other countries do better than the US, or whose country is better - it's about the reasons why people "attack" America. This has been answered a million times now - yet you keep trying to deflect this by playing the "my country is better than yours" game.
Nice try. Boo.
Originally posted by Kryties
reply to post by air101
I never said you couldn't criticise country - but you won't because you don't know anything about it now do you
Thing is though mate, the topic is other people criticizing America, not the other way around. If you want to criticise other countries perhaps start a thread dedicated to that? Maybe try researching the countries that you are going to criticise first though to avoid looking ignorant!
Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by wcitizen
Because they want to do the same. Because that's what religions, governments, and humans in general do when they are angry.
Originally posted by Kryties
reply to post by air101
So you admit you know nothing about my country? Thankyou, again, for proving my point.
Fact is you, and many other Americans, mistake criticism for hate. This, I believe, is intentional for the most part as it distracts from the actual criticism itself.
Originally posted by TheGreatAppleKing
That's a sadistic realization, if you think im lying there must be something wrong with you/and or you havent seen more of the internet.
People outside the U.S tend to think their GOV is better or their country is better for some reason but in reality its just about equal except for the murders and stuff...
And FYI the internet was created in America by the military in the late 20th century.....
SOOOOO.......yeah where do we go from here?
None of the nations the United States is in the process of conquering has actually attacked us. Iran, the stated next target, has never invaded another nation since it became an Islamic Republic in 1979. The United States cannot make that same claim having since 1979 attacked El Salvador (1980), Libya (1981), Sinai (1982), Lebanon (1982 1983), Egypt (1983), Grenada (1983), Honduras (1983), Chad (1983), Persian Gulf (1984), Libya (1986) , Bolivia (1986), Iran (1987), Persian Gulf (1987), Kuwait (1987), Iran (1988), Honduras (1988), Panama (1988), Libya (1989), Panama (1989), Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru (1989), Philippines (1989), Panama (1989-1990), Liberia (1990), Saudi Arabia (1990), Iraq (1991), Zaire (1991), Sierra Leone (1992), Somalia (1992), Bosnia-Herzegovina (1993 to present), Macedonia (1993), Haiti (1994), Macedonia (1994), Bosnia (1995), Liberia (1996), Central African Republic (1996), Albania (1997), Congo/Gabon (1997), Sierra Leon (1997), Cambodia (1997), Iraq (1998), Guinea/Bissau (1998), Kenya/Tanzania (1998 to 1999), Afghanistan/Sudan (1998), Liberia (1998), East Timor (1999), Serbia (1999), Sierra Leon (2000), Yemen (2000), East Timor (2000), Afghanistan (2001 to present), Yemen (2002), Philippines (2002) , Cote d'Ivoire (2002), Iraq (2003 to present), Liberia (2003), Georgia/Djibouti (2003), Haiti (2004), Georgia/Djibouti/Kenya/Ethiopia/Yemen/Eritrea War on Terror (2004), Pakistan drone attacks (2004 to present), Somalia (2007), South Ossetia/Georgia (2008), Syria (2008), Yemen (2009), Haiti (2010), etc. etc. etc. etc.
Originally posted by Kryties
reply to post by air101
WHAT DO YOU KNOW? I've asked that 4 times now and each time you have deflected answering it and suggested I tell you. Prove to me that you aren't the ignorant closed-off American that you are looking like by answering the question. Jeez, you've had enough time to check Wikipedia by now Ben though I'd spot that a mile off.
You are still trying to deflect away from he topic of the thread which is "why do people attack America" not "What country has done better at whatever...."