McChrystal gets called to the woodshed

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by merrylander

BTW, having travelled extensively I can tell you that the "whole world" does not hate us, they may have regarded the actions of various administrations as inimical to their interests, but they do see the difference between the government and the people. They never believed that Florence and I were Americans at first (probably because we never asked for Ketchup) assuming I was Scandanavian and she was Italian or Spanish. However, when they did find out we were never harrangued or made to feel unwelcome.

I spent two weeks in Cannes, France back in the eighties. I had a wonderful time. One of my friends complained constantly that the French were rude and dissmissive towards him. The difference was that I attempted to speak to them in FRENCH. I don't speak French, all I had was one of those "pocket translator" books. But, the simple fact that I tried to speak the language made all of the difference. My friend preferred to speak LOUD AND SLOW, in English with a thick Texas accent, and then mumble about what "dumbasses" the French were 'cuz they couldn't understand him.

Many muslims may hate us but that is because they hate Christians and Jews because we are infidels in their eyes. Of course they still want to immigarte here, 'tis a puzzlement as the King said.

Correct. Many of them hate us, and many of us hate them-----because of religion and the 1,300 year old history of violence between Judeo-Christian Society and Islam. And I'll leave it at that.

Dave

[d-ray657]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Ah hate evverbuddy who ain't perzactly like ME...(grin) Getting back to the original topic, which went out the winder somewherearound page 7.5, I believe, I'll hafta give Obama his props on this 'un...NO general is mightier & bigger than the President...The founding fathers were VERY wise on that topic...And it has nothing to do with Obama's limp wristed, socialistic lefty leanings...He HAD to do this, & it was the right thing to do.

Sandy, you have a wicked backhand - for a hillbilly redneck backwards southerner.

Regards,

D-Ray

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Ah hate evverbuddy who ain't perzactly like ME...(grin) Getting back to the original topic, which went out the winder somewherearound page 7.5, I believe, I'll hafta give Obama his props on this 'un...NO general is mightier & bigger than the President...The founding fathers were VERY wise on that topic...And it has nothing to do with Obama's limp wristed, socialistic lefty leanings...He HAD to do this, & it was the right thing to do.

Precisely. I think. Wait a minute, let me go get my Redneck Pocket Translator.

Dave

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

We are among the few who understand 'destroying the means and will'. Most shirk from this basic wartime necessity. Otherwise you get the ongoing drawnout misery that say Palestine is experiencing, instead of having it over fairly briefly.



We carpetbombed Germany and Japan. We are uncivilized? Again, I'm not saying not to be careful....

Dresden was pure retaliation for Coventry, and as it turned out Coventry was pilot error


We don't NEED them to be democracies, just not hostile.

That is not the point, Boosh changed the title when he found no WMD, claiming we were going to make Iraq into a democracy

I agree with your comments regarding treatment in other countries. I was in England right after we hit Saddam and although there were posters etc all over the place no one insulted me. Just the same, if people think we're thugs that's their problem.

They're wrong about the people and the government being two different things though, unless we're not a representative democracy.

There have been times when I have wondered and sincerely prayed that the gummint did not represent us