Originally posted by switched
On the basis of the logic apparent here, Au must be the only friend America has and I'd better tell the front desk to go easy on the hordes of its knife toting citizens to be expected, assuming of course they don't stay home in a funk. Don't worry guys you'll have a wonderful time - just remember the beer is a lot stronger than yours.
American dollars they may be, but they are mwgbb11's dollars first and foremost, just as it is his business and no-one else's where he goes on bloody vacation.
Honestly, you guys carry on about Freedom etc when it suits don't you? Well live up to it then and by that I do NOT mean spouting off at someone else's choice of holiday destination. AND anyway, this IS an issue which is on any analysis highly complex, despite what Condy and the crew come out with. Yes, war is far and away the most likely outcome and the US and its allies (us included) will win THAT. It is what flows from that though - no way we can be certain we'll all be better off. Although inclined to proceed myself, I cannot deny that.
I have a genuine admiration and respect for America and like its people a great deal. At the same time, no fair dinkum Au would wear the sort of nonsense here for a second. That's part of what we understand Freedom to be.
Thanks, Au is the only continent I've yet to visit, and my first choice for my next intercontinental vacation, but keep in mind, many of us yanks, who fought the worlds wars when we where young, and financed them with our tax dollars when we get old, are fed up to the gills with 60yrs of socialist propagandists, cramming their elitist drivel down our throats. If it's not the Europeans, it's Canada. Complaining about the everything we do, tieing our hands in conflicts they asked us to bail them out of. French and Germans love to crow about the ill's of the world, and never hesitate to come crying for the U.S. to bail them out of a mess, all the while looking down their stuffy noses and complaining about how us Yanks have screwed up the world. Just once in my lifetime, I'd like to see Germany or France actually take the initiative to resolve an international problem, provide the manpower, and foot the bill, without whinning for money or help from the U.S. If it ever happens, I'll be sure to take special delight in sitting back and critisizing how went about it. They want us to protect them from terrorists, but don't want to extradite them, because we'll execute them, or try them as enemy combatants before military tribunals. They want us to provide the manpower, the resources, and foot the bill to cure the ill's of the world, while they criticize how we go about it. They complain we don't provide enough humanitarian aide, to the people trying to kill us. Yet they provide nothing! They call us barbarians for valuing freedoms they have surrendered, like the right to keep an bear arms. Then complain about being restricted by, or having to pay for excessive police and security forces. The last forty years, we've had to put up with it here at home from the environmental fanatics, and the hippy, peace/nik generation, that fried their brains on dope in the sixties and seventies. From Jane Fonda in Hanoi, to that group of demonstrators in Bagdad yesterday, calling themselves human shields, brandishing Kilashnikov rifles and pledging to die in defence of Saadam and Iraqi's. Before the first bomb goes off, they will undoubtedly be screaming first-amendment privilige, all the way home. They will sit in their comfortable recliners, and at their computers, cursing and spiting at the nation and people who provide that freedom of speach they feel so entitled to, but won't lift a finger to secure. When they don't have a war to complain about, they're trying to sue sombody, or take our guns, our SUV's or shut down industries, and cut off the water to entire towns, to save some endangered fruit fly or minnow. They won't celebrate veterans day, but they celebrate black history month, three months out of the year! They complain about the lack of discipline in the schools, but they outlaw corporal punishment, and demand refrences to the ten comandments be taken down. They restrict Christians from putting up nativity scenes in public buildings at Christmas, but make "Tolerance Training" where students are exposed to advocates for homosexual lifestyle groups, and Islamic clergy, an annual requirement from kindergarden threw college. Anyone like me who dares complain about any of their politically correct horse-pucky usually gets called a racist, a sexist, or a Nazi. Then they wonder why every once in a while, somebody goes postal on them!<g>
Enjoy yourself.
