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Originally Posted by JG4_Helofly
@ Bewolf I am imagining the guy who keeps a rocket launcher under his bed in case he gets attacked by an assault tank 
Btw. I am always astonished that it was the conservatives who took away many libertys from the people after 9/11. Doesn't fit with the idea of liberty and protection against the government... |
Patriot Act? Yeah, this act (and the Iraq war) started my disenchantment with the US. Before I always looked at the US a shining beacon, given their cold war conduct, treatment of Germany after WW2, politians like Roosevelt or Eisenhower, "real" men, the help in the Berlin Blockade, even Kennedy and Reagan at the Berlin Wall, their support for reunification while our so called "friends" in Europe like France and the UK did everything they could to prevent it. I travelled quite a lot over there, even had an american girl friend and still call quite a few americans "friends". I stopped going there when the US customs started to treat my like a potential criminal.
911 initially made me angry beyond imagination. I fully supported the Afghanistan war.
All undone. After those Bush years only one term fits to the describe the US.
Fear. And it undoes all the achievements by the people of the United States over centuries. It is frightening how fast you can ruin such a reputation for generations to come.
And when I watch Romney and what he said during his recent trip to Israel....Oy vey.
Politics in the US are becoming ever more radical.