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In article , shadow self
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Why is it *shocking*? Because it is flipper?

Something that is NOT shocking: once again, the U.S. is sticking its
nose in
where it is not invited.

Environmental, humanitarian and vegetarian groups are not affiliated
with any one nation.

You're right, I was out of line.

also, just as the first poster was offensive towards Japanese, you were
offensive towards Americans. We are not all international busybodies.
Nor
are we all naive about world politics or other cultures. If some of us
choose to protest the killing of animals whose brain power and
intelligence
is not far from humans, we are not necessarily doing so because we are
Americans- quite frankly, most Americans don't give a damn what people eat
in Japan, and couldn't find Japan on a map if their lives depended on it.
What I find interesting is how Americans are always accused of putting our
noses in things- but the people who say this don't seem to be urging their
countries to pay back all the loans that America makes so their countries
won't have to associate with us. They also don't seem to be worked up
when
US money props up their economies in times of need, and I haven't heard of
a
country yet that has said, 'no thank you- but we don't want you money'. If
Western Europe alone finished paying off their Marshall Plan loans, not a
single American child would go to bed hungry, lack milk or clothing, or go
to a school without proper books for at least 20 years. Mistaken and
downright wrong-headed as we have often been (and I am no conservative by
any means), I wonder if all the US-haters would have liked the world that
would have come into being without the US entry into World War II, the
monies loaned by American taxpayers for the Marshall Plan that helped to
stave off the Nazis and other fascists rising again, or the American
buying
power that has kept many European companies afloat while helping to turn
Japan into a major world player. I'm not proud of what we did in Vietnam,
our current attitude against Cuba, and our support of anti-Communist
dictators who have used our money to torture and maim their own people,
but
I'm not ashamed that there are still enough Brits, French, Germans,
Spaniards, Italians and even Japanese left in the world to sneer how we
are
always sticking our noses in other people's business while forgetting that
if we had ignored them or treated them the way the Russians would have
liked
to have done, they'd still all be standing in line for toilet paper and
rotted potatoes. Instead, I am happy to say that they are alive, healthy,
and able to crack wise while never getting around to paying the money they
still owe, and they often have the nerve to ask for more.


No one country in the 20th century has given more to other countries, or as
paid as dear a price in blood to
eliminate fascism and militarism in other countries as the United States.
I think that that fact alone compensates for her mistakes and failures.