this question is for americans who are proud of their country...?

Question

how can the present state of affairs, vis-avis your country's relationships with most of nations on earth, be okay with you guys.what happened to the ideals behind the Declaration of Independence, to civil liberties; to everything you folks fought to achieve when you seceded from Britain;; do you realise that most of the world sees your country as the modern Rome, the inheritors to British hegemony. I wish we outside your country heard more from you folks. I gotta tell you, on paper you seem to be the best the planet could hope for but it sure gets lost in translation

Answer 1

I proudly serve in the U.S. Armed Forces, and I'm not really happy with a lot of things that I see happening here, but for very different reasons. A lot of what you hear about the U.S. has been twisted by our mainstream media to fit their decidedly liberal agenda. Most Americans support the war on terrorism, if not the occupation in Iraq, and are willing to sacrifice a certain amount of autonomy for additional security. Your average American citizen is very pissed off at the Islamic extremists that want to kill us just because our government has supported Israel. The fight that we have right here on American soil is between the conservatives who still hold to the beliefs of our forefathers (not to a perfect T, but close) and the liberals who want to turn this country into the next Soviet Union. Personally, I think we would be much better served at home and abroad if we brought our troops back home and concentrated on fixing what's wrong within our borders instead of dealing with problems (real or perceived) outside our borders.

Answer 2

The United States has always been on shaky ground when it comes to international relations. The Declaration of Independence was just that a declaration of independence. The very foundation of the U.S. calls for independence of individuals and national sovereignty.

Most of the critique of the U.S. is related to our belief that our governmental system (as originally established) is the best in the world. This would be arrogant if there were no evidence to prove it, but there is evidence. Prior to the establishment of public school systems, Americans were the best educated people in the world. Unlike in other areas of the world, the U.S. system allowed people to go from poor to rich in a single lifetime rather than over several generations. Despite some events such as the mistreatment of the Indians (which are to our ancestor's shame), the U.S. has the best Human Rights record in the world.

Answer 3

Our declaration of Independence and our laws that uphold the freedom of the people to speak, act and live how they wish are still intact, and always will be. We are not required to extend those practices to other nations. Why are we a modern Rome? We are not a dictatorship. What, exactly,do you want to hear from us? Of which state of affairs are you speaking? We have all kinds of issues happening all the time, you need to be more specific. Our main goal, when we suceeded from England, was simply to stop paying English taxes. We were a new world and wanted to establish our own laws and tax system independent of England.

Answer 4

Really? a modern day Rome? That's pretty flattering.

If there were one thing I could make people in other countries understand about the US, it would be this: The will of the government is not always the will of the people. We don't want to annex or colonize anyone. We just want to keep people from blowing up our buildings and the buildings of our international friends (like Israel, Spain, England and India). While we appreciate diversity of ideology, we CANNOT tolerate an ideology of hatred - and that's what Islam is.

Answer 5

1st, America is not a country. America is a hemisphere.
If referring to the USA, United States of America, then the reference is to 200+ million educated, dedicated, reverent & intelligent people speaking plain English in 50 separte areas differing in varying degrees of views from politics & religion to liberties & foreign affairs.
US Citizens start sentences with capitals & pose questions with more precise terms than displayed in the rambling.
Just what is the question?
Do we care about issues of interactions with jibberish?
Not no, but hello!? (sp?)[typo?]
(yeah, typographical error, keep on thinkin dat)
me +2 - you -5!

Answer 6

Thank you! For God sake, we our trying to tell the Republicans that they are on a very bad track. We are screaming in their ear that this road has no bridge. But they are so busy trying to cover their *** that they can not and well not listen.
The fact is that the harsh foreign policy or the Bush Doctrine was still born.
When we learned that the dancing in the streets or Baghdad and the fall of the statue was staged, the truth was really out. That happened in less than a month after the invasion.
It has a been a very long and bloody mistake that is finally beginning to come to its appropriate end.
Your Question is a very good one, and I thank you for asking it.

Answer 7

This country, the U.S, has sold out a long time ago. And those wars that were fought for freedom and civil liberties were in vein because over the years people couldn't control the controlling motives of the rich and powerful in this country. We basically live in a fake utopia that promises to protect it's citizens in a time of war, only that is a lie to.

Answer 8

What relationships are threatened? If you are talking about Europe I think the proof is in the pudding. The English re-elected Tony Blair despite of his relationship with the US, and the German voters elected Angela Merkel, who said she would help fight the war on terror. What you describe is the media perception of America. European papers are notoriously liberal and have hated Bush from the day he was elected. It is clear that a majority of people in the world like America, and it is just as obvious that most of the media does not.

Answer 9

Are you upset because we don't care what you think?
I bet you wish your country wasn't controlled by the UN or the E.U.
The US is the greatest country there is because we are the least socialist. Why would we want to be like countries that are failing like France and the UK? We're happy with the way things are thank you very much.

Answer 10

I take the disapproval of some countries as a badge of honor.

The day that Russia, China, France and many others agree with all we do is the day I'll start to worry about our direction.