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| Posted by:seafarious |
| #2 Article: No nation can simply go it alone, certainly not one that seeks to dominate the world. Asinine assumptions like this are why I avoid the Guardian like the plague. Uncle Sam doesn't seek to dominate the world - it merely seeks to avoid getting hit by things like 9/11. If Holland had been hit by something like 9/11, it would have carried out a small country response, which consists mainly of mourning. The US had been doing the small country response for a while before 9/11. Post-9/11, Uncle Sam showed its enemies what a big country response looks like. With any luck, they haven't seen the last of it. The question isn't whether the US can "go it alone". It is whether the Guardian's loony anti-American assumptions are beneath contempt. I think they are. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2005-03-31 11:50:25 AM |
| #1 No nation can simply go it alone, certainly not one that seeks to dominate the world. A slight misunderstanding. The period following 9/11 persuaded the Americans that they now had an opportunity to remake the world in their own image,... That's closer. It seems to me that the rest of the world sounds jealous of us. We respond by trying to share that which we treasure most. |
| Posted by: Dishman 2005-03-31 2:58:38 AM |