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[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by osszie
JD, forgive me if I'm wrong, but I did sense a teeny bit of animosity in your earlier posts .......... I viewed this thread as a discussion, nothing more (with maybe a small bit of flame on my part).

Sorry - but most of these become a flame war against America after a while. I've proabably have become very defensive because of past topics like these. I realise that in the beginning of the thread that it was said to stay civil. It's just that everyone spouts off their countries self interests - and America is expected to just follow along with them or else we're considered wrong. I have also found that very few Europeans bother to really understand the US political system (of course very few Americans even understand it). I also regularly go into BBC.co.uk and LeMonde.fr - but they only give a very surface view of what goes on in American policy, I used to even going into RussiaToday until it became a pay news site.

I just wish that the countries that constantly complain about America's involvement in the world would get more involved if they want to. Let them be hated for a while - while at the same time giving billions and billions in aid.