I registered simply for the complete fail I read in the first few posts. Now, after years of enjoying this website, I get to attempt to combat the hysterical ignorance contained within these stories at the bottom of their respective pages.
[citation][nom]tsnorquist[/nom]It does seem that wikileaks has but all targeted only the USA of late.I'd have more respect for the cause if it wasn't so sided. I'm not saying to shield the USA, but there really needs to be some light shed on other nations atrocities across the globe.
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The only reason it seems like that is because of the American media, which feeds directly to your major news sources around the world. Query: Where are you from/do you live? I suggest you find a new news source if yours is like this.
In the US we are literally drowned at gunpoint with all the bureaucracy by those trying to push their will of global domination upon us, and you, wherein we are forced to stick in our own little bubbles and not give a shit or even think about kenya or cambodia or even anything aside from Gordon Ramsey or Ricky Gervais from the british isles.
[citation][nom]chickenhoagie[/nom]I could definitely agree with this statement also. Hypocrisy is the biggest problem in the world today, i would most certainly say. Countries can't look at their own problems without first looking at the problems in the USA. Unless the USA is announced the single most important country in the world, I don't see a reason for people to continue looking at our issues when they have issues of their own.[/citation]
Umm... because of our attitude? Our shit most definitely does smell the worst too. By FAR.
I don't believe it comes down to whether or not the US is deemed the most important country in the world. What it comes down to is the idea; the belief of what we as a nation stand for. The problem lies in the fact that because of this progressive way of thinking, especially over the last 50+ years, it's gotten nothing but a terrible reputation because we, those in the spotlight, are constantly bragging and throwing sand in others' eyes instead of walking side by side with them as we should. You meet anyone from the US, sure, we can be a little outspoken, but no matter where you're from you are considered family. It's not like that with the politicians or the big business execs; they like that gap between us and them. For some reason they think it makes a better world.
Anyways... babbling to baboons. Keep up the fight Julian.