You'd be surpised. As a parent of 2 girls, ages 3.5 and 1.3 years old, there are a lot of movies geared towards kids that really have no business being kid orientated. There are a lot of things you don't notice until you have kids of your own.
Remember the 'Casper' movie a few years back? It was 100% geared towards kids and yet and some cursing in it.
As a side note, yes, I curse myself but I don't do it in front of my kids since I don't want them repeating it.
First, thank you for the well thought out and well worded reply.
Second,
...it involves itself in manipulation of the population, and is following one of the well known 'tricks' of many totalitarian governments, make the people 'feel' so they don't think and you can do what you want.
I disagree. The government has a poor reputation in America. Actually, American's are equally suspicious of *anything* having to do with governments in general, whether it national or worldwife. We don't trust our politians any more than we trust yours.
Then, the USA quite often forgets to look at the long term effects of its policies.
I agree with you. As you state, the US isn't the only one that has done this (heck, France had done it's best to give Iraq a nuclear reactor), but we do have our own actions to blame.
no matter how horrible and completely unjustifiable the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon were, they were not entirely unprovoked
I love it when I hear this, because it's such circular logic. The same people who do this, blame Pearl Harbor on the US as well. It's like blaming an abused spouce for the beating she receives for not doing the laundry. You can excuse all the evil in the world if you look for enough reasons, and while Europe loves making excuses, it resulted in two world wars and the deaths of millions. The whole world heard how Hitler wasn't a bad guy, and gosh, we have all this diplomacy and treaty papers! He can't possibly break his word. Now, it's not exactly an equal comparison to Iraq, but Iraq had proven itself dagerous to it's neighbors and actually invaded a soveriegn nation and butchered civilians. Now, the UN had fallen down on the job and wasn't doing anything in regards to weapons inspectors. Thanks to Clinton and other anti-military politicians we poked ourselves in the eye by cutting our intelligence back. Therefore, we rellied on faulty intelligence and got burned. It doesn't change the facts that Hussein was a problem waiting to happen and most likely would have caused problems in the future. What it does call into question is the morality and responsibilty of whose job it was to take action. If Hussein wasn't a direct threat to the US, then we really had no business being overthere, even if it does all work out for the best.
And there we have the main reason why the USA got involved in the European theatre directly
Why did Germany declared war on the US? Because of our material support for Europe. Had we not been supplying Britian and the rest of Europe with materials, Germany wouldn't have declared war. Again, we were ASKED to backup Europe and were involved in the war at Europe's direct request. It all escalated from there.
Japan and Germany have both been 'democratized' after the war. In both cases that was reasonably succesfull also.
An interesting idea. I hadn't considered that. I wonder what the occupation force and rules were like. Unforunately(?), the media wasn't nearly as powerful as it is today and likely the each negative story wasn't plastered on the front page each morning.
I hope they manage to do something about it because the way things are now, the USA is going to cause a major war if not a 3rd world war.
Well, if we do, it'll be our first. Europe managed to start two in 50 years - which the US was be dragged into AT EUROPE'S REQUEST.
That's why the US has it's current foriegn policy, becuase by ignoring local problems they develop into world wide problems.
...But yeah, let's follow's Europe's advice. I'm mean, it's clearly worked out so well in the past.
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You'd be surpised. As a parent of 2 girls, ages 3.5 and 1.3 years old, there are a lot of movies geared towards kids that really have no business being kid orientated. There are a lot of things you don't notice until you have kids of your own.
Remember the 'Casper' movie a few years back? It was 100% geared towards kids and yet and some cursing in it.
As a side note, yes, I curse myself but I don't do it in front of my kids since I don't want them repeating it.
First, thank you for the well thought out and well worded reply.
...it involves itself in manipulation of the population, and is following one of the well known 'tricks' of many totalitarian governments, make the people 'feel' so they don't think and you can do what you want.
Second,
I disagree. The government has a poor reputation in America. Actually, American's are equally suspicious of *anything* having to do with governments in general, whether it national or worldwife. We don't trust our politians any more than we trust yours.
Then, the USA quite often forgets to look at the long term effects of its policies.
I agree with you. As you state, the US isn't the only one that has done this (heck, France had done it's best to give Iraq a nuclear reactor), but we do have our own actions to blame.
no matter how horrible and completely unjustifiable the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon were, they were not entirely unprovoked
I love it when I hear this, because it's such circular logic. The same people who do this, blame Pearl Harbor on the US as well. It's like blaming an abused spouce for the beating she receives for not doing the laundry. You can excuse all the evil in the world if you look for enough reasons, and while Europe loves making excuses, it resulted in two world wars and the deaths of millions. The whole world heard how Hitler wasn't a bad guy, and gosh, we have all this diplomacy and treaty papers! He can't possibly break his word. Now, it's not exactly an equal comparison to Iraq, but Iraq had proven itself dagerous to it's neighbors and actually invaded a soveriegn nation and butchered civilians. Now, the UN had fallen down on the job and wasn't doing anything in regards to weapons inspectors. Thanks to Clinton and other anti-military politicians we poked ourselves in the eye by cutting our intelligence back. Therefore, we rellied on faulty intelligence and got burned. It doesn't change the facts that Hussein was a problem waiting to happen and most likely would have caused problems in the future. What it does call into question is the morality and responsibilty of whose job it was to take action. If Hussein wasn't a direct threat to the US, then we really had no business being overthere, even if it does all work out for the best.
And there we have the main reason why the USA got involved in the European theatre directly
Why did Germany declared war on the US? Because of our material support for Europe. Had we not been supplying Britian and the rest of Europe with materials, Germany wouldn't have declared war. Again, we were ASKED to backup Europe and were involved in the war at Europe's direct request. It all escalated from there.
Japan and Germany have both been 'democratized' after the war. In both cases that was reasonably succesfull also.
An interesting idea. I hadn't considered that. I wonder what the occupation force and rules were like. Unforunately(?), the media wasn't nearly as powerful as it is today and likely the each negative story wasn't plastered on the front page each morning.
I hope they manage to do something about it because the way things are now, the USA is going to cause a major war if not a 3rd world war.
...But yeah, let's follow's Europe's advice. I'm mean, it's clearly worked out so well in the past.
Well, if we do, it'll be our first. Europe managed to start two in 50 years - which the US was be dragged into AT EUROPE'S REQUEST.
That's why the US has it's current foriegn policy, becuase by ignoring local problems they develop into world wide problems.