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Originally Posted by Etacovda
JD - as i said, the loss of life was completely tragic. The sight of people jumping from the buildings is still in my head. The fact that noone saw it coming was like pearl harbour, 'noone would ever dare do that'. Its time for America to get its head out of its own ass and figure out what the rest of the world thinks of its political actions.
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I am not going to argue with that. Keep in mind however that the USA has 290 million people scattered across a huge continent. That is 290 million people that have various religions and beliefs and races. For the most part we don't get along with each other and spend most of our time just trying not to kill each other.
I live in a area that has a lot of white supremacists. They wish death to pretty much everyone that is not white no matter if they are a US citizen or not. You have cites like LA that have double the population of your entire country that have large populations of people from other countries like Mexico, Japan, Vietnam, China and so on. It is hard enough to just get people to get along from the diversity of the population let alone worry about foreign affairs.
The good part is for the most part the majority of the country is good people that can get along. There is a fair portion though that refuse to get along and many that are pig headed and stuck in their ways.
The US is a lot more complex country than many think it is. Hell I didn't understand it much myself until I started traveling the US. After 8 years of traveling and covering most of the country I am pretty amazed the USA is as strong as it is. It is really hard to deal with your own state let alone the country let alone the world.