Do you think that the US should sponsor trips to actual police states so that people in the US would know what one is? I think it would be beneficial on both sides of the aisle.
2006-10-09 04:35:10 · 4 answers · asked by MEL T 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I'm a neo con? Thanks! lol
2006-10-09 08:39:43 · update #1
Kind of like when the eco trips go to unstable regions in central america and get kidnapped? I understand the theory, but the reality is that when something bad happens, you can't help but wonder what they were doing there to begin with. Besides, they would still be americans, and our perception (and theirs) would be very different if we belonged there, and weren't the enemy. I think that books like 1984 go a long way to explaining and illustrating a police state. Wherever they might exist...
The problem is that when people from the US go to other countries, they get a greater understanding of the whole picture, and they start to question the fallacies of their own government. And then they come home and get beat up by the right and called terrorist sympathizers.
2006-10-09 04:52:11 · answer #1 · answered by hichefheidi 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have a good point. I would like to see trips to all countries to show our people the U. S. and its consumerism is not the center of the world. If nothing else, it would cause an appreciation of our country and add some good things learned in very different countries from the U.S.
2006-10-09 11:39:11 · answer #2 · answered by beez 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isn't this question a bit far out in left field for a neo-con?
2006-10-09 12:09:29 · answer #3 · answered by ranger12 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That would be a short trip, walk outside!
2006-10-09 11:39:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anarchy99 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋