You guys really shouldn't "debate" unless you have concrete evidence to back up your opinions.
The world doesn't tell the United States what to do, the world just gets angry when you try and start wars. War's bad for everybody. We don't live in your country and we aren't affected by your news, therefore we can make objective decisions. The key word is objective here. Without proof, all your statements can be fallible.
You are arguing using history as your support, however if you go back in history long enough, your argument fails. For instance if I said: if it weren't for England, the United States would be nothing (literally). What would you say to that?
It has nothing to do with military, governments, or whatever. What Napoleon is saying (aside from the reactor thing) is that you Americans have the right, as one of the last superpowers on earth, to be responsible. Making wars, killing innocent lives, is not being responsible. Helping Kosovo separate from Yugoslavia and Milosevic's ethnic cleansing IS responsible. Being a hypocritical nation--stating that Iraq should not have weapons of mass destruction while the US has a stockpile of thousands--is not responsible. Doing whatever you please as a nation is NOT responsible.
I also have to say that the world is much to complex to sum up, and the conflict that is going on in the Middle East is a result of many factors. Lets use Skyfire's use of history to prove my point! If it weren't for ENGLAND, this conflict in the Middle East would likely not exist. England/UN created the Jewish nation state of Israel. If Israel had not been created, then Palestinians would not be fighting with the Jews. If the US had not supported any side in their (THEIR) conflict then we would not be hearing complaints about American foreign policy. American foreign policy is the cause of terrorist attacks against the United States on many occasions. Without the United States supplying weapons and putting Saddam INTO power in the first place to combat Iran, you would not have someone to fight about right now.
Originally posted by Skyfire
...everyone who bitches about us, will also then turn and complain when we don't do anything as, "Your the superpower in the world, and if you want to act like it, you have to take responsibility for ensuring the protection/saftey of the rest of the world."
Everyone needs to get off their damn high horse about telling the United States what to do, excluding United States citizens. The rest of the world always get pissed by what we do, and what we don't do. To hell with them, as they aren't us-and a good portion of them wouldn't be around/have military and government stabilty if the United States had not acted in some point in history.
The world doesn't tell the United States what to do, the world just gets angry when you try and start wars. War's bad for everybody. We don't live in your country and we aren't affected by your news, therefore we can make objective decisions. The key word is objective here. Without proof, all your statements can be fallible.
You are arguing using history as your support, however if you go back in history long enough, your argument fails. For instance if I said: if it weren't for England, the United States would be nothing (literally). What would you say to that?
It has nothing to do with military, governments, or whatever. What Napoleon is saying (aside from the reactor thing) is that you Americans have the right, as one of the last superpowers on earth, to be responsible. Making wars, killing innocent lives, is not being responsible. Helping Kosovo separate from Yugoslavia and Milosevic's ethnic cleansing IS responsible. Being a hypocritical nation--stating that Iraq should not have weapons of mass destruction while the US has a stockpile of thousands--is not responsible. Doing whatever you please as a nation is NOT responsible.
I also have to say that the world is much to complex to sum up, and the conflict that is going on in the Middle East is a result of many factors. Lets use Skyfire's use of history to prove my point! If it weren't for ENGLAND, this conflict in the Middle East would likely not exist. England/UN created the Jewish nation state of Israel. If Israel had not been created, then Palestinians would not be fighting with the Jews. If the US had not supported any side in their (THEIR) conflict then we would not be hearing complaints about American foreign policy. American foreign policy is the cause of terrorist attacks against the United States on many occasions. Without the United States supplying weapons and putting Saddam INTO power in the first place to combat Iran, you would not have someone to fight about right now.