... Listen, if you have to compare yourselves to the CPR or Federal Russia to look good... How about you stop making excuses for your country's deplorable behaviour and start actually investing the development of third-world countries, or at least stop hindering it? You know, just letting people have their elections and not intervening by financing parties or assasinating people or whatever. Just letting them sort out their own problems. Help of the sort that was given to Germany and Japan in WWII's aftermath would be awesome, but it will do if you just leave people alone.
'''YOU SEE THIS DOG I'M PETTING? THAT WAS COURAGE WOLF.Cute, isn't he?Yeah! Fuck every ongoing genocide in the world! You hear that, Darfur? We were on the fence about you, but now you're completely screwed!
"True story, I came when I read Scrye's story, and so did everyone within five miles." —OOZESee, I don't like that. If playing global police is bad, then we should have no responsibility for any of the world's problems. Don't expect us to concern ourselves with only the issues that matter to you.
"True story, I came when I read Scrye's story, and so did everyone within five miles." —OOZE
That's fine by me. Also, it'd be nice if you stopped getting those regimes and rebellions and druglords and warlords to buy your freaking weapons. That's a money and life sink, that is.
edited 10th Jan '11 3:26:22 AM by RawPower
'''YOU SEE THIS DOG I'M PETTING? THAT WAS COURAGE WOLF.Cute, isn't he?Getting a nation to look at itself (especially the US with the vast amount of resources it commands) would be a very good thing. If only because the US has some internal issues that should be more pressing than external ones.
It works the other way too though, if you are playing globe police you have a responsibility for every disaster that you do not try to prevent.
edited 10th Jan '11 3:25:47 AM by JosefBugman
I think having foreign enemies is what keeps that country united, and, that failing, the internal divisions would just blow up at them. Gargantuan country is gargantuan.
'''YOU SEE THIS DOG I'M PETTING? THAT WAS COURAGE WOLF.Cute, isn't he?I agree, now if you'll excuse me, i'll just step into my time machine and fix everything.
"True story, I came when I read Scrye's story, and so did everyone within five miles." —OOZEThat'd be great, thanks. In the meanwhile, though, if we're doing the isolationism thing, let's aim for real isolationism rather than interventionism until we get what we want followed by isolationism when we're asked to clean up the mess. People find that kinda passive-aggressive after a while.
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.People can eat a dick, since they're not doing anything better.
"True story, I came when I read Scrye's story, and so did everyone within five miles." —OOZEExcuse me, Scrye, this is offtopic, but can you please refrain drom being so rude and jerktastic all the time? It sounds as if you don't care at all about the problems of your fellow humans, especially those caused by your country's selfish self-righteous reckless thoughtless callous actions.
'''YOU SEE THIS DOG I'M PETTING? THAT WAS COURAGE WOLF.Cute, isn't he?Could you use commas the next time you try and squeeze every negative word into one sentence?
"True story, I came when I read Scrye's story, and so did everyone within five miles." —OOZE![]()
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Nobody would have to if Uncle Sam hadn't fucked things up in the first place. That's the thing about being the most powerful guy on the block, you can make messes beyond the ability of nearly everyone else to clean up. That may or may not mean everyone else needs to get better at cleaning up messes, but it certainly implies you should stop making them.
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That sounds like a personal attack...ON MY COUNTRY. Seriously though, the US is nowhere near an empire; if we are we're doing a horrible job. If we really got the notion that "You know what, fuck it; lets start conquering, international opinion be damned''", what's to stop us from taking over South and Central America? $20 says the rest of the world wouldn't care.
200$ says you'd completely ruin yourselves economically, fail at this endeavour, and lose massive international relations cred. There is only so much one can do, an even Irak + Afghanistan, which should be a breeze, are draining your economies and dragging you down. If you were to actually try to Take Over the World, you would fail. Unless you are willing to use your nukes.
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[Trembles in horror at the vision of a world held hostage]
'''YOU SEE THIS DOG I'M PETTING? THAT WAS COURAGE WOLF.Cute, isn't he?

Sounds awesome