How America Can Live With the Rest of the World

[Lazerblade]

Sorry, Farmboy, I didn't quite pick up on the satire part of that statement. My mistake.

But to enforce your paragraph, instead of simply making vague, unsupported statements like "We literally own their army." maybe say how. It enforces the sarcasm by showing what we supply and basically saying "They can't buy it elsewhere." Am I being clear? Is this the sort of feedback you're looking for?

[farmboy]

yup :yup:

[110]

>on a more serious note<

In order for the US to be more acceptable abroad we would have to scale back our intervention in the affairs of other countries.  Sadly though, we have no choice but to act as the "world police" since nobody else, but our NATO allies and even then they complain.  I personally dont have a problem with a diminished role for the US concerning global security, but the UN wont do anything except pass resolutions and accept bribe money as in the Oil for Food scandal.  The EU?  doubt it.  France wont even arrest car torchers.

alot of anti-US sentiment is IMHO created at least artificially so by the media.  Our own media here in the US picks and choses what news is fit to print.  I would imagine that to be no different then any other country.  Maybe instead of just electing political officials, we should all start electing journalists as well.:hmm:

[MONOLITH]

alot of anti-US sentiment is IMHO created at least artificially so by the media.  

Yes.

I don't think artificially though, the hatred is really there; but when they spend months and months exaggerating and spinning a few bad seeds in Abu Ghraib into 'Evil global Amercian policy', they make people hate us.

Meanwhile, captured Americans being beheaded got 1 days coverage.

More citizens were shot and killed in Philadelphia today than soldiers died in Iraq. But the war is a 'disaster', amd the barbaric minorities raping and killing are just 'misunderstood'.

Yep, the media certainly picks and chooses.