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Your accusations that I insulted "all" or "every single" Americans, those are your words, not mine. Generalization was not my intent, but you are twisting what I have meant to say by deliberately adding words to prove that I have committed the "crime" of "generalization". Now everyone knows that all people in a country are not the same and we are talking about govt. policy which is controlled by the elite and political class, but in a democratic country they are voted in by the public, so the public, specially voters of the winning party, bears some responsibility for the political elite in govt. that run the affairs of the state in their name and behalf. A few word of wisdom from George Carlin in this regard:
George Carlin Doesn't vote - YouTube
If you have lived in more countries and absorbed more cultures than myself, good for you and I am happy for you.
Seeing everything as black and white, and having screwed view of the world, that is a very subjective statement.
No country is all good or all bad, we are mixed bag, people or nations, so saying that I forget the good and remember all the bad is kind of pointless, as we are not discussing American philanthropy or charity.
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I think I am skeptical about Tea Pary like yourself, they are being used as foot soldiers by business elites that control the Republican Party. But the elites may have got a little upset when the Tea Party got the US credit rating was downgraded from AAA to AA+, during the debt-ceiling debate debacle. If most of the Tea-party are from the 98% majority household that earn less than $250,000, then they will be depending on Social Security and Medicare when they retire, but somehow the 2% elite that control the Republican party have convinced the Tea Pary congressmen that privatizing Social Security and destroying Medicare is in their interest. I believe there is inefficiency and abuse in the system, but having no safety net for the poor and the elderly will be bad for America in the future. About Ron Paul's policy of Isolationism, I believe it is not prudent or practical and I do not support that, but I support avoiding unnecessary and costly war. Incidentally, Ron Paul was also totally wrong about Libya, I think Obama did the right thing in Libya with this humanitarian intervention.
I am glad that you have gone to college and have a good job at a fortune 500 company, good for you, but calling my statements crap and BS will not help your argument. Of course they are my opinions, most of which I believe are backed by facts.
Thanks for telling me that I don't understand Americans or the Japanese, again these are not counter arguments or points, but ad hominem subjective statements.
In Afghanistan, instead of a long occupation, a quick routing of Taliban and capturing of the criminals responsible for 9/11 and then withdrawal from the country was sufficient. I believe Bush Sr would have taken this approach, just as he did in Gulf war I in Iraq. He left Saddam in place. There was no need for nation building and this long occupation in Afghanistan, which has now turned out to be a costly mistake.
Middle East was not unstable for centuries, it became like this after the Ottoman empire was broken up after first World War.
If you like to tutor children or work in soup kitchens, then that is your choice, but don't expect that others would like to do the same.