I don't have time to analyze every point but here are some things off of the top of my head....
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Originally Posted by Jovi2003
Do you people agree with this, or disagree?
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1) Most Europeans are completely unaware of how threatened Americans feel.
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That's because of the propaganda that the US media spreads.
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2) Most Europeans cannot conceive how traumatic 9/11 was to us. Many of them expected us to "get over it" by now and see us as wallowing in self-pity and prone to paranoia and childish temper tantrums now.
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We've had terrorism for years and years.... get over it. Actually, you deserved 911. I was willing those towers to fall and they did... but don't get me started on that LOL.
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3) Many Europeans do not believe America is really at war. They think the phrase "War on Terrorism" is figurative language. They often even put it in quotation marks.
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You haven't caught Bin Laden yet, you seemd to have got bored with that now that you don't know where the tarets are. Iraq on the other hand.... there's still sh1t to blow up without looking too hard....
Can't you finish that "war" before starting another one?
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4) Since the end of the cold war, many Europeans seem to be in denial about the simple and, IMO, indisputable fact that America is still the leader and protector of the free world.
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Many countries prefer to put priority on their own problems rather than interfering in other places.
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5) Most Europeans are completely enamored of the UN and don't realize that many Americans disdain it as a barking dog with no teeth or the boy who cried "Wolf!" Therefore they don't see that by not following through on 1441 they are simply confirming the belief of many Americans - and beasts like Saddam - that the UN is not to be taken all that seriously.
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So kill first and ask questions later eh?
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6) Most Europeans don't know that, if America simply wanted more and cheaper oil from Iraq, we could just have the UN sanctions lifted.
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But being in *control* of the oil would be much more beneficial...
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7) Many Europeans are very cynical about the integrity of their own politicians and they look at our leaders through those same, jaded eyes. They don't hold their own politicians to very high moral and ethical standards so they don't seem able to believe we do. This is evident in their skepticism of Colin Powell's presentation at the UN.
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What's Gary Conditt (sp?) up to recently? Maybe he is double teaming a hooker with Bill Clinton.
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Tony Blair's Labour party, for instance, is notorious for its shameless use of spin and it has little credibility with the British public these days. (They have stayed in power largely by being the lesser of two evils, the Tories being seen as even more hypocritical and corrupt.)
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And the US is perfect? (see previous point)
How much money has the mayor of New York got? Billions?
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8. Many, if not most, Europeans believe that America is so biased in Israel's favor that the U.S. is part of the problem in the Middle East, instead of part of the solution. (Also, the European media disseminates a lot more information about the unsavory activities of the Israeli military in the disputed/occupied territories than the American media does.)
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Only America cares about Isreal. It is your problem. Deal with it.
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9) Many Europeans don't seem to realize how dangerous chemical and biological weapons are in the hands of men like Saddam. They don't see him as a threat to their security (or anyone else's, except maybe Israel's, whom they don't like anyway). They aren't afraid of him, so they don't want to pay the price of disarming him. They seem to think the Bush administration is simply using scare tactics to raise support for its "imperialist aggression" against Iraq. (Can you say "asleep at the wheel" boys and girls?)
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I'm not afraid of him. He isn't going to come up to me in the street and shoot me. Being afraid is caused by propaganda....
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10) Again projecting the cynicism they have about their own politicians onto our leaders, they don't trust Bush at all and believe he is both ignorant and unthinking.
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He isn't the sharpest tool in the box.