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Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy
Bullshit. The world hates us because we keep trying to control the world. The world envied our freedom back when we had some, but that isn't the case anymore. If we were to restore liberty at home, and quit trying to run everything around the world, the world would envy us again. Right now they think we're patsies, because we will give money to anyone, regardless of how they treat us. We're the co-dependent child of the rich guy trying to buy friends around the world, but we insist they play our way. When they don't, we give them our candy anyway.
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What you call America trying to control the world has kept evil countries from running amok since World War II. We've done an imperfect job, but without us the world would have been a far worse place. The Soviet Union had every intention of taking over the world and we stopped them. America is bankrupt and will soon no longer be able to use our military to act as a force for good in the world. Now the world will discover what it's like to be left to the tender mercies of the Russians, the Chinese and the Islamists. It's going to be a very long period of darkness.
THE MAN IN THE ARENA
Excerpt from the speech "Citizenship In A Republic"
delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on 23 April, 1910
download PDF of complete speech
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Israel Anti-Obama Protest.
