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Enforcer · Rated NC-17

I like to think I ride the middle ground on these topics, I was for the war in Iraq....provided we had the UN behind us. I look at how our economy has gone down, which I won't blame solely on Bush, because it did start at the end of Clinton's term. What I can't understand is the hard-nosed attitude of Bush and how in his eyes we as a nation don't need the help of anyone else, and when they want to discuss it he just goes right ahead. We weren't the most loved country before him, now 4 years in to him though we are more hated than ever. A Co-worker of mine has a friend who was at the Tour De France this year, and was appalled at the attitude and general feeling of the populace towards himself and others for being American. That same co-worker (who is left wing to be sure) had made a comment that was unsettling to me, yet I cannot dismiss.

He said we are the Soviet Union of the new millenium.

I'm too young to really grasp the politics of the time when the Soviet Union was in full force, but I do see his point. I know that what is needed now is to heal the wounds Bush and the rest of our government have opened between countries that beforehand just silently put up with us but now hate us with a vengence. We need to draw ourselves back home, to try to steer away from a country of services and get back to producing things again. The world mostly hates us as a country, and we rely on them for cheap labor for our goods. This cannot last. I do agree that action has to be taken for some things, that we cannot role over and just let the world have their way with us, but at the same time a lot more effort has to go into keeping good relations with the countrys that haven't openly gone hostile with us...yet.

I love my country, and I love the liberties and freedom that I have. I love that I can make posts like above with no fear of the FBI knocking on my door. I wouldn't trade this country for anything in the world, but man, stuff's gotta change soon.
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