Please don't try to post as if you represent the entire United Kingdom. There are a lot of people who won't agree with you.
The point here is, I think, to make a distinction between the American *people* and the American *government*.
I don't think most American people have any idea what their government says, and how their government acts in their name. That government has a nasty habit of making enemies in the world.
I travel to the US regularly, I've never known a country with so little foreign news coverage.
I think this is why many Americans genuinely have no idea why anyone would want to do this to them.
For the US to now start threatening and flag waving and talking about protecting the world from these atrocities, borders on the wrong thing to do. It's partly because of these actions in the past that America has made the enemies that it has.
Before flaming, of course I agree that this was a terrible, unwarranted, unjustifiable action, but I can understand why some people would dare to do it.
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Please don't try to post as if you represent the entire United Kingdom. There are a lot of people who won't agree with you.
The point here is, I think, to make a distinction between the American *people* and the American *government*.
I don't think most American people have any idea what their government says, and how their government acts in their name. That government has a nasty habit of making enemies in the world.
I travel to the US regularly, I've never known a country with so little foreign news coverage.
I think this is why many Americans genuinely have no idea why anyone would want to do this to them.
For the US to now start threatening and flag waving and talking about protecting the world from these atrocities, borders on the wrong thing to do. It's partly because of these actions in the past that America has made the enemies that it has.
Before flaming, of course I agree that this was a terrible, unwarranted, unjustifiable action, but I can understand why some people would dare to do it.
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