Recently I saw a bumper sticker that read "We are creating enemies faster than we can kill them". Would you ?

Question

Agree or disagree with this statement?

Answer 1

As much as I disliket he bumper sticker I'm sure there is some truth to that,depending on your version of the truth.

Answer 2

You are not always the creator or the responsible party for your enemies. Everyone knows this in day-to-day life - certain people just don't like you, even though you did nothing wrong. Other people don't like you because you did something to make them upset, and you know this if you're honest with yourself.

However, some people have a difficult time admitting that not all enemies of a country are not the product of that country's actions, especially when they disagree with many of the country's policies. It is a kind of cheap and easy false intellectualism to assert that the problems of the world are the fault of one's own compatriots - because it sounds like being self-aware and enlightened enough to recognize responsibility for one's own poor actions, but avoids the personal liability by emphasizing that its the *other* people in one's country, not oneself, who did all the wronging.

Answer 3

You could look at it like a web. Every person that gets killed has a support system, a family, a neighborhood, etc... and for every one that is killed one could argue that at least several of those people will now consider themselves your enemy as a results so yes we are creating enemies faster than we can kill them if you look at it from that perspectives.

Answer 4

Agree in practice, disagree in theory.

We can certainly kill people faster. We can drop nuclear bombs all over the Middle East, Asia, Africa and South America. We can wipe out billions of people in a matter of a few days.

So, by any abstract standard, we can always kill people faster than they can decide to hate us.

But unless we're prepared to do that, in practice, the statement is correct.

Answer 5

As a child I remember reading books about the sheiks and the harems and the mystic of desert life in the middle east.

Now because of George Bush everyone thinks the middle east as an evil place full of religious freaks and war mongers.

Answer 6

Yeah I disagree. Jealousy is a powerful thing. For all of those countries we give aid to, if you don't want it give it back. This is the greatest country on earth, and we didn't become the greatest country on earth by taking from other countries either. I'm sick of our country being blamed for all the worlds problems. How many third world countries are still third world countries and always will be third world countries because they won't get off their butts and boot out their crappy leadership. It only took us 200+ years to get where we are and it took alot of blood, sweat, and tears. So like I said before put up or shut up.

Answer 7

I agree!

We seem to be attacking Iraqi's, who are the very people we allegedly liberated! They are not terrorist!

Sometimes I think we are far worse than Saddam ever thought of being! Like it or not, there was none of this violence before we got there!

Bush is the #1 Poster Boy for making enemies!

Answer 8

I would agree with that statement, unfortunately. Hopefully our next President can turn that trend around.

Answer 9

I would say "The Bush Administration" instead of "We"; then your sticker is right on target. Of course it's people who vote Republican in the first place who are to blame if you want to get to the root of the matter..

Answer 10

i would agree. our current behavior is nothing more than an extension of the interventionism that the US has been engaged in in the Middle East since WWII.

you see daniel, they hated us before the invasion because we were treating them like dirt before the invasion. research the embargoes on iraq before you start flapping your gums.