Originally posted by Taike:
Laughable is all I can say.
Come one, you're talking about human rights while ignoring basic human rights at home. Talk to the Native Americans about human rights and you'll hear quite a different story.
Are you willing to compensate all those you've raped and murdered, or all the land you stole, usually by breaking treatments? Nope, don't think so. You even balk at returning looted artifacts to the country of origin. Yet here you are talking about human rights. The lame excuse that there was no central government or that you brought civilisation is so pathetic. Why not just accept that every country has its own civiliazation and that your concept of civilization isn't the standard everyone else has to follow.
And if China was owned by the US or The Netherlands no one would have a problem, right?
Bachus, did the Indonesians invite the Dutch to colonize their nation? Did the Zulu Nation in South Africa? Did the natives of Suriname, Dutch-Guyana, the Dutch-Antilles? How convenient history is. One can simply ignore it.
Why don't you just admit that you're scared of the rising economic power of China and other Asian nations? You did it your way, they do it their way. You just don't want them to succeed.
Whose human rights have you respected? Native Americans? African Americans? Hispanics? Asians? It even took you till 1920, when women finally won the vote throughout the nation. You still have a the gender pay gap, men are still preferred over women in the work force, etc. Not even your Constitution guarantees women the same rights as men. Once again, first take care of your own backyard.
The main thing is, as long as it benefits you, you don't give a rat's ass about anyone. Not now, not ever!
Taike, I agree with much of what you say. I am an anamoly where I live... I do not just wave my flag for the good ol' USA. I agree that the good ol' USA has done a lot of bad things. And continues to do so.
It seems all of this is planned. Why, I don't know. I guess because the powers that be, whomever they are, want it this way. The U.S. government, or those who control the U.S. government, seem to WANT China to become the big dog. It's all very puzzling. It's been unfolding before our eyes for a long time and they seem to support it.
As for those from the USA... I read a report last year from a seemingly very credible source. And it predicted, through some very convincing statistical extrapolations (yeah, gotta be careful with those, haha) that the USA will take a backseat within about 30 years, as I recall. China will become the big dog, followed, I think it was, by India.
I'd like to believe in the USA's "goodness" promoted by many, but, the cynic in me sees a lot of bad in the way the U.S. government has behaved. And I don't know if that can be fixed, it might just be the way it is and is going to be... the USA, as big dog, is history. Countries have failed throughout history. In fact, nobody ever stays on top long.
What's so funny about peace, love and understanding?
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