He Who Is Perfect May Criticize
Castro and Chavez say the United States is occupying Haiti. Yet their own responses to Haiti leave a lot to be desired.
In my mind, one reason the military is best to send into disaster situations is so tin-pot dictators can’t do what they’re accusing of us doing. We have a history of doing what we need to do in a given location, then getting the heck out when we’re no longer needed. Will the greedy dictators do that same?
Then, along comes Italy and France criticizing our response, also calling it an occupation.
Tell you what Mr. Ministers of Italy and France. Put your money where your mouth is and you do it. Italy’s government as a whole doesn’t seem to agree with Bertolaso but that’s beside the point. They think they know everything better than anybody else but when it’s time to take the lead who do they look to? Us. So,either put up or shut up.
I don’t care if you call it American Exceptionalism (which I prefer) or something else but the United States always takes the lead, not out of a need to dominate but because nobody else has the fortitude to do so.
If you want exceptionalism for your countries,then do something about it except complain when somebody else does what you won’t.
January 25th, 2010 at 6:31 pm
This quote says a great deal toward your point, Steph:
Not many nations can boast this fact.
January 26th, 2010 at 8:20 am
Well, see, Gary, the problem is not the level of our goodness but theirs. Instead of pulling themselves up to our level, or any other free country, we must be brought down to theirs.
It’s that way in the micro view as well as the macro. Neighbors don’t like neighbors they perceive as better than themselves. Doesn’t matter what the disliked neighbor thinks about him or her self in that regard but how he or she is perceived by those around them. Thus, enormous effort is put into bringing the disliked neighbor down to their level.
January 29th, 2010 at 6:19 pm
Ya well. Criticism? Try being a liberal on conservative blogs!
January 30th, 2010 at 7:18 am
but what to do if country think that it has a right to interfear into business of other countires, but in a real way its leader has lack of expierence and understanding of whats going on there? think of it
January 31st, 2010 at 5:36 am
Good question. However, the answer is in the question.
January 31st, 2010 at 5:40 am
BB, try being a conservative on liberal blogs. There’s a world of difference in treatment that you’ll not appreciate until you experience it for yourself.
January 31st, 2010 at 9:50 am
Tru-dat Steph. Typically, a liberal visiting a conservative blog is pummeled with facts, while a conservative visiting a liberal blog is threatened with violence and berated with every four letter word known to man… generally speaking, of course. There are opposing attitudes on both sides that disembark from the norm.
How’s the global warming treating you in Idaho, BB? I haven’t spoken with my kin up there in a while.
January 31st, 2010 at 12:54 pm
Weather up our way is about normal, Gary. Not sure where your Idaho kin are, but we are a big weird state, geography-wise. Our weather patterns are vertical, so that I live 1000 feet higher than downtown..problematic sometimes as it can rain downtown and snow up town with ice between…going 1000 feet uphill on ice is well, exciting. This blog has never threatened me (thanks, Steph) but some
rather extreme RW blogs have. I make it a practice to be civil, not only because it is the right way to be, but threatening, denigrating or being sarcastic typically
drives the ‘other side’ that much further away. Not pummeling here, but only six percent of scientists are Republican…so I am in the majority in having liberal (ugh) values…
January 31st, 2010 at 4:54 pm
BB, I’ve been called a racist more times than I can count, along with raving lunatic, teabagger, and other things I can’t even repeat on here. Sometimes alone, sometimes in combination.
Usually for asking a simple question: “Why?”
You can’t debate anyone when all you can do is call people names or threaten them in some way.
However, if you condone what Obama does, isn’t that the same as since he has called us names, blamed us for all ills, and allowed his thugs (SEIU) to beat up protesters who don’t see things their way?
February 1st, 2010 at 7:38 am
BB-
You and I had some chats last year I believe. I know you live in the western part of the state, while my kin are in the Twin Falls/Stanley part of the state. I used to use the moniker Gawfer and still own the site, though posting has been quite sparse lately.