What's going on in our government? What does the United States stand for anyway?

Question

I've been thinking and I realize that I know nothing about our government, except for the "freedom" and "equality" part. What's going on up there, as far as Iraq, new laws, the president, conflict, whatever. What's is going on?!? Who are we trying to protect America from and why, who's a threat, who's our ally . . . WHAT do we stand for?

Answer 1

US can be described by the following words-

Overconfident (w.r.t Americans' arrogance)
Greedy (w.r.t Oil)
Corrupt (w.r.t Cheney, Bush)
Meddler/Nose-poker (w.r.t Middle East)
Sadistic (w.r.t destruction in Iraq and Afghanistan)
Ignorant (w.r.t social standing)
Fearful (w.r.t China)
Sinking (w.r.t US economy)

Answer 2

You know less than you think: "Freedom" and "Equality" are two of the three watchwords of the French Revolution (along with Brotherhood), not the American. The American Revolution can perhaps be summed up with the three rights from the Declaration of the Independence: Life, Liberty, and the Persuit of happiness. 'Equal' does come up, though. The Declaration also said that "all men are created equal" and the Constitution (eventually) gauranteed "equal treatment under the law." 'Equality' in the egalitarian sense, though, does not.

Answer 3

in response to the moron who said that our economy is failing, i hate you stupid ill-educated and terribly informed liberals who spout off at the mouth about things they no nothing about, our countries economy is so much better than the chinese' that our economical growth in the past 4 years represant more thant the entrie chinese economy. also the only reason that china is doing anything at all is because they illegally and purposely devalued their currency by 40% to help them gain some ground in the world market.....your are politically and intelectually inept

Answer 4

Watch Syriana. They speculate that corruption keeps us safe. Being the wealthiest nation in the world I assume we must be doing something right, obviously.