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I agree, this is unpatriotic, but that is okay, everyone is entitled to an opinion. Whats isn't okay is oversimplifying those opinions in an attempt to defile the US government and the governments of great nations like China. I have been to China and seen the slums there, eaten with poverty stricken people and discussed the politics of the PRC with its citizens. You may think that $75.00 a month to sew shirts together is slave wages, but that person lives as comfortably on that as someone making $25,000.00 a year in the US. And another thing...the people that do work for "slave wages" are not forced to do it; but in fact they work hard because it is in thier nature as a culture to do so and enjoy it - for they at least are fortunate enough to have a job and be proud of it. Pride - Get some!
Isn't it great that we live where we can make our own opinions known without worry that Fidel will have his mafia come after our parents or Saddam will torture us for our inflamatory comments about his mustache or the taliban will hurl a grenade into our children's room while they sleep.
I am no more a friend of war than anyone but it is often inevitable and as citizens of the United States it is our duty to stand behind our leaders and vote them out if they are out of line. That is democracy. This whole we can fix every problem that every peron has is a liberal dream and will never happen. But what we can do is help those in need - and if we decide who to help based on our own self interests then GOOD. Always look out for number 1. You can not look out for everyone else too. If along the way we can procure some oil and my gas bill goes down - Good; if I can buy furniture from China and wine from Afghanistan for cheaper -Good; if Fidel is not immortal and I one day can get a Cuban cigal legally - Good. And maybe along the way we help some folks too.
So, while we type on our $1,000.00 + computers next to our friends playing PS2 on the big screen while sitting on the futon and ordering Pizza...we still find the arrogance to criticize others whom we have no real knowledge about.
Be cosmopolitan but don't be ethnocentric. And remember there are more than two sides to every story...there is also the truth.
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