As an American, what's your feeling when...?

Question

when you see George Bush wasting your tax money just trying to make Israel's dreams in the middle east a reality? As Americans, don't you feel that the people in the Bush Administration who are more loyal to Israel than to the US are just harming you and wasting your money and killing your soldiers just for the sake of extremist zionism? or has the US media brainwashed you completely and made you think that Israel is really so nice and romantic and that its people are the chosen people of God (really?! how come that a God can be so biased for some of his creatures against all the others?! crap!!!) and that the Arabs are nothing but as*holes and terrorists? did your media tell you that Israel is still occupying Palestine and parts of Syria and Lebanon and that any nation has the right to militarily resist miliatary occupation? were the "founding fathers" of the USA terrorists when they militarily resisted the British?

sometimes I just feel Americans are so naive and uninformed!

Answer 1

To each their own. Perhaps Americans feel the Arab nations are naive and uninformed. People (without regard to geographic location) become as apathetic as they can be and self-absorbed within their own little lives. That's human nature.
"Americans" are relatively isolated from daily violence.
I don't know anyone who thinks Israel is "nice" or "romantic." The only reason the USA is involved with Israel is the US feels the Arab nations are not stable economically and want a presence in the event one is needed.
(WWI and WWII both started in significant part as a response to poverty and a desire for growth and expansion.)
I've known many Arabs in my life. I liked all of them.

I realize what the US Media portrays as terrorists is a very small minority of the Arab population, but a very dangerous minority.
I don't necessarily agree with all of George Bush's politics, but Israel is NOT HIS politics. He inherited that headache.

To answer your question about were the "founding fathers" of the USA terrorists, NO, they were not. They militarily resisted the British, but tried to minimize civilian impact. That was a civil war. Terrorists use tactics like suicide bombers in public places and car bombs targeting almost any target in an attempt to make ordinary citizens change their way of life. I will NOT call terrorists cowards like many others do, because they are not. Just as guerilla warfare used by the "founding fathers" was now cowardly. You work with what you have.

I only fault those who have no limits in achieving their goals. The US military is getting bombarded for alleged crimes, but if those crimes are true, they are just that, CRIMES and will be punished. Terrorists have no limits. Their targets are rarely military targets. Their goal is to make fear their weapon. That is a terrorist.



P.S. Sir, I replied to your message, but it didn't go through as it said your email had not been "confirmed."
But the answer to your question is "yes" and the repsonse to your comment is "Thank you."

Answer 2

I believe you are naiive and uninformed, mainly because you can't spell naiive. Yes, Bush is wrong. Two months before the attack on September 11, 2001, funding to the National Department of Defense was cut in half. They said that they would find a way to get that money back and then some. So, then comes the attack. We could have went straight for Al Quaida, but Bush attacked Iraq stating that they won't hand over Osama. However, they didn't know where he was either! Then he says it is because he wants to liberate the people under Saddam, but the people can liberate themselves. Then he says it is the stinginess with the oil, but 92% of our oil comes from Canada's natural resources. Has the media completely brainwashed you to make you believe that American's are so stupid that they would believe that Bush is trying to help the world and not try to finish what his daddy screwed up first back in the 80's? No one culture of people are the chosen people of God; the Middle East is considered sacred because that is the birth place of Christianity, a religion that covers 92% of the world? Or are you so jacked up that you forgot that Jesus wasn't white or black but a Middle Easterner, the same people who more than likely take your payment for gas? They are just as respectable as we are, and while Bush may have a good idea for democracy, it is just like Naziism. It looks better on paper.

Answer 3

You make some good points, but how can you rationalize kidnapping and suicide bombing. Muslims are doing this on a daily basis and not just in Israel. Israel had not been in Syria and Lebanon until their soldiers were kidnapped and were pulling out of the west bank until they were attacked by hamas terrorists. Tell me, what am I missing here? I am sure Israel isn't blameless in this. And America supports Israel because it is an ally. Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, would like nothing more than to see the United States destroyed along with Israel. Am I wrong?

Answer 4

You have a very balanced point of view (NOT!).

In this most recent turn of events, members of Hamas in Gaza kidnapped an Israeli soldier. Then, Hizbollah terrorists from Lebanon kidnapped two Israeli soldiers. Israel gave both of these groups a chance to return the soldiers, and they did not return them. THAT is when the hostilities began. They are just defending themselves, which is something that any sovereign state has the right to do. It has nothing to do with Bush.

And as far as Israel's "dreams in the middle east", all they want is to EXIST in peace. My question to you is, why do Hamas and Hizbollah (backed by Syria and Iran) want to see Israel destroyed? Other Arab nations have made peace with Israel (Egypt, for example), so why do Iran and Syria insist on maintaining hostilities?

Answer 5

First and foremost, the founding fathers were not terrorists because they were conducting a revolution against the British military, not killing british civilians. As for what is happening in Israel, the militia group hezbollah should have disarmed under UN resolution 1559. Israel may be going overboard in it's response but every nation has the right to defend itself.

Answer 6

I really pity those poor Americans. As the descendants of the great heroes who stood against and bravely fought the state terrorism as conducted by the British Empire (Have they taught you the Boston Massacre ?), they should be supporting the oppressed of the world instead of playing the servile servant of the Nazi Zionist regime in Tel Aviv. Shame on you, sons of America

Answer 7

Wow, you really think you know it all. Scary!

While most of the civilized world would hope for World Peace, we KNOW it's never going to happen. And truthfully, if you want to kill each other off we'd prefer to let you than see our soldiers dying while trying to protect your murderous way of life.

But, we only have one planet to live on and so we keep trying to play peacekeeper and find ourselves hated for it. But we have broad shoulders!

Answer 8

you sound like you are uninformed and biased. NOT all Americans are blindly turning their eye from what is going on but not every American thinks the was you do either. We all have views and becasue we are in America you can voice yours.

Answer 9

I don't like George W. Bush. I don't trust that he has the nation's best interest at heart.
We're not unintelligent, not all of us. Just not a whole lot we can do about it (except rant on Yahoo!)

Answer 10

We've got money to spare. We need to spend it on something.

Your jargon is getting old. Try something new.

...and even if we are naive and uninformed... how would that make you right? I don't understand (naivety again.)