Planespotta |
09-22-2007 05:33 PM |
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Originally Posted by blastoff
(Post 235082)
Planespotta, someday when you are actually a pilot, you may get to travel to Europe and talk to REAL Europeans who still have great respect and admiration for the U.S. Not in Paris and Berlin, but in the countryside. The terrorists declared war on us in the 1970's to bring about a worldwide Muslim theocratic state...they hate our foreign policy because its the only thing standing in their way. The rest are just bitter because for the last century and even today, the safety of Europe depends heavily on the U.S.
If we retracted ourselves from the world, we would then be criticized for being isolationist. We would still be attacked by terrorists until we all bow to Allah.
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1) I have talked to people in the countryside. I talked to this one guy in a chocolate shop just over the German border (maybe 30 minutes east of Strasbourg.) He thought the US was insane.
2) Yeah, so maybe I was exagerrating when I made that Syria/Iraq point. Still, when we went into Iraq without sufficient proof, killed a gross number innocent citizens (albeit accidentally, some of the time), and worsened the state of the nation instead of improving it, it didn't look to good in the eyes of many other nations. I'm not saying that justifies their anti-US stance.
3) I have given up FSX for real flying (old news.)
BTW, I consider your responses to be flame bait and unacceptable on these forums. You wouldn't belittle an airline pilot.
Oh, and Colts07, are you saying that wars can be waged on suspicion? Because Colin Powell admitted that we had no proof of Iraqi WMDs -- our original impetus for invading the nation. My friend, you need to watch less Fox.
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