My czech mate says the US is bad.....but if it weren't were our cousins in the US, Britain and Europe would be one big Graveyard........If these people didn't get freedom in the 1990s then they wouldn't be able to open their mouths!
2007-06-10 02:40:17 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I'm living in the Czech Republic now, and I understand exactly what you're talking about.
First and foremost, the people here don't even realize that it was Ronald Reagan who maneuvered the Soviets into a position which left them no way out; at Reagan's urging to Gorbachev, the Soviets had passed certain reforms that made continuing dominance of their satellite countries impossible. If you ask an East European why Communism was defeated, they just shrug their shoulders and say that it had lost the strength to continue. It's as if they're all suffering from post traumatic shock syndrome.
If Americans are looking for gratitude, they can forget it. Eastern Europeans seem to have only dim memories of Communism. They don't talk about that era, and it seems to make them uncomfortable, maybe in the same way a lot of Iraqis don't talk about Saddam Hussein. Even though they know what they fear is dead, it gives them an uneasy feeling just to bring up the past, as if they will breathe new life into it.
It is so ironic that Czechs are protesting practically under my window in Wenceslas square against U.S. defenisve missiles in Poland and the Czech Republic. They are tacitly siding with Russia, their former slave masters.
2007-06-10 02:55:45 · answer #1 · answered by pachl@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We gave the Czechs nothing that the Czechs were not willing to take for themselves. Remember, they took our advice and revolted in 1968--and we didn't follow through.
The Czechs, and others, stood as hard as they could against the Soviets.
By and large, the people of the Czech Republic are great friends to the American people; however, that doesn't mean they have to blindly accept everything about the United States.
You say we gave them freedom of speech? If this were true, which it is not, why would you now want to take it away?
2007-06-10 09:56:21 · answer #2 · answered by James S 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Too many people desire to suppress criticism simply because they think it will give some comfort to the enemy... If that comfort makes the enemy feel better for a few moments, they are welcome to it ... because the maintenance of the right to criticism in the long run will do the country maintaining it a great deal more good than it will do the enemy.
The first amendment therein states that "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
2007-06-10 09:43:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well that one, particular little factual tid-bit seems to get lost on a
lot of people, because of their media or for whatever reason, and they don't realize that we're trying to do the same thing now
because it's so easy for the criticizers to portray it as something different, which a huge number of people fall for which is playing right into the Islamists and others hands. I wonder who's fault it's going to be when it all goes away again, ( hm-mm!! let's try and figure that one out, oh yeah!! America. )
2007-06-10 10:02:02 · answer #4 · answered by booboo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bush Said "Agree with us or you are our enemy!Either you are for us or you are against us!" He said a lot of bad things about the people of other countries who would not join us in this war. I don't blame them! They are against this war so Bush already told them they were against us and our enemy. You're right they have the freedom to say what they want! This is not world war 1 or world 2!
2007-06-10 09:49:43 · answer #5 · answered by Pamela V 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
are you f**king kidding me? what kind of freedom... first, the UK, France, Germany and Italy agreed the Sudetenland would be given to Germany... then Hitler took the rest of the Czech republic and the UK did NOTHING...
after the WW2... Czechoslovakia was 'given' to Russia... what what kind of freedom are you talking about... fascism was replaced with communism.... so thanks very much...
and last of all... it was not the US's interest to 'liberate' the eastern european countries (1945 proved the US & the UK didn't give a sh*t about the 'eastern' block')... the main interest of the US was to protect itself from the Soviet Union's nuclear attack... so please don't give Americans credits for something that was only a side effect of something else...
2007-06-12 07:18:43 · answer #6 · answered by bustedsanta 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps not every interpretation of history is as self-flattering as you'd like it to be.
could it be that they remember that FDR sold them, and the rest of Eastern Europe, out to Stalin for Soviet help against Japan in the first place?
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2007-06-10 10:08:21 · answer #7 · answered by celvin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
, Canada and Austria, Danmark, Norway, Sweden have middle power. Because, they have rich, educated and economic developed. They are interested being good international citizens. They have not pay attention challenging of USA and they have not interested being dominant region. They tried to major role in UN’s peace keeping for resolve problems in middle east, Sri Lanca, Austria so on.
2007-06-10 09:46:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If my grandpa lent your grandpa $1000 60 years ago so he didn't have to live in the cold, does that mean that I should just join you in a bank heist?
2007-06-10 09:45:18 · answer #9 · answered by hydrovitae 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lets say we gave them free speech, are you saying that they shouldn't exercise it? Free speech means an open discourse, maybe they have grievances.
2007-06-10 09:51:59 · answer #10 · answered by Village Player 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋