Do you like the idea of other nations telling the U.S. what to do?

[bryant69]

Poll question: Do you like the idea of other nations telling the U.S. what to do?

Not in regards to any specific situation and not in regards to any specific president. Just in general. What's your gut reaction to a political leader from China or France or Panama criticizing the United States, assuming you agree with the substance of the criticism.

Bryant
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[ThomCat]

1. If the US government is being moronic

then I'm all for a rhetorical slap upside our nations head.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

2. Not anymore than what I am sure they like us telling them what to do.

[IChing]

4. Yeah, it sucks when the world tells us not to torture or bomb people

How dare they? If I want to beat my wife or my dog it is none of your business

:sarcasm:

[Freedom_from_Chains]

7. Yeah the bitch probably had it coming anyway.

For the sarcasm impaired this statement was meant to be sarcastic. :sarcasm:

[OwnedByFerrets]

3. If we have the right to

say anything we want about any other country (france, iran, korea) and if we have the right to illegally invade a sovereign country.........you fill in the blank.

[bryant69]

5. Yeah but if it is wrong for us to do those things

isn't it wrong for others to do them to us? It's one or the other isn't it?

If it is wrong for us to lecture other nations, than it is wrong for other nations to lecture us.

If it is ok for us to lecture other nations, than it is ok for othern ations to lecture us.

Bryant

[BeFree]

12. It's ok

For us to lecture other nations. Its part of diplomacy.

But is not ok to invade other nations. The two things are total opposites.

Chavez has every right to lecture us. Just the same as you, no more, no less. But come into my home with bad intent? All hell's gonna break loose. And I'd be perfectly right.

[OwnedByFerrets]

14. Exactamundo!!

Good fill in the blank

[Imagevision]

17. nations telling the U.S. what to do? - You mean like Israel?? - NO!

[Annces]

6. Considering Cheney and Bush would love to be able drop you in a volcano

if you go against their lies and death-cult, then yes I welcome outsiders to save us.

[Selatius]

8. The federal government doesn't represent me, so I don't give a damn

If a whole gang of European leaders wanted to give Bush non-stop messages about how his policies are abject failures and that it's creating more instability in the world and that he's exhibiting authoritarian tendencies, then I could not care less.

If anything, it will just make Bush pissed off, and we may finally see the day where he is screaming in front of a podium and pumping his fists in the air like a latter-day Adolf Hitler because he takes criticism so poorly no matter how constructive and valid it may be.

[leftofthedial]

9. the US currently is incapable of behaving morally or responsibly

or in the best interests of humanity

so, it is sadly necessary for other nations to tell us what to do

it's better than the faceless oligarchs who secretly tell the current government what to do every minute.

[dipsydoodle]

10. criticizing the United States

isn't telling the USA what to do . Telling them what to do is shades of "if you don't do this we will do that " I sometimes wonder if that's what will ultimately be necessary with trade as the lever i.e. we will neither export to you nor import from you.

[dkofos]

11. Thanks for the out on that ambiguous poll

I don't have a problem with anyone criticizing the US,
because I believe in FREE SPEECH.

[bryant69]

13. Believing in Free Speech doesn't mean you can't criticize that speech.

Or say that somebody shouldn't say it. It just means you aren't allowed to take action to silence that speech.

Bryant

[dkofos]

16. That may be good enough for you

I set my standards higher.

[bryant69]

19. So does free speech mean that

. . . say, a vegetarion not only could but should walk into a steakhouse and denounce everybody. Or a baptist walk into a mosque and denounce everybody.

Bryant
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[dkofos]

20. Never mind

[bryant69]

21. Nice

I like people who don't feel their arguments are worth standing up for.

Bryant

[dkofos]

22. I have a problem arguing with vegetables

[bryant69]

23. I see your point - if I had a weak argument

I would want to skip the actual arguing part too.

Bryant

[genie_weenie]

15. Is the Nation-State the final arbiter of

discussion or do smaller groups have legit beefs?

For example: The only official langauge of France is French but there is a push to allow the areas of France which have long histories to use their own dialect of the Oil Lang Family. Spain has already voted intself into more of a Confederation (allowing a Basque homeland is getting close). Breton & Gallo are resurging in Brittany, the Kurds want a Kurdistan (which is a topice for another thread and has been discussed ad nauseum)

Anyone is free to criticize but problems come up when a power in the Security Council uses it's position to get UN sanctions on the lesser countries.

Anyway since I'm strea-of-consciousness writing here it's unclear but I choose: I Like to Vote.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

18. Turnabout is fair play

I cannot recall a time in my 50+ years when the U.S. DIDN'T try to boss other countries around.

[Keepontruking]

24. Let me Understand this????????????

The US tells everybody else and we pass judgment but we can't
take it ....that's the point being made here ...aren't we the
big ones and full of ourselves??????//

Circus Girl

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