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MarciaMarcia

4 August 2008 - 8:22pm

I've read the foreign affairs article and the speech many times. It's the same message. War: its not our fault, there are some people out there that hate the west and we have to kill every one of them.

But anyway, here are a few bits from the speech:

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But we must also lead by attracting others to our cause, by demonstrating once again the virtues of freedom and democracy, by defending the rules of international civilized society and by creating the new international institutions necessary to advance the peace and freedoms we cherish.?

We will demonstrate the virtues of freedom and democracy by creating [b]international institutions[/b] to advance peace and freedoms we cherish? This will attract others to our cause? What a load of crap.

What about what we do at home?

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Perhaps above all, leadership in today’s world means accepting and fulfilling our responsibilities as a great nation.

Responsibility to Americans first! He continually implies >fix America by fixing all the countries that do not think like us< which is outrageously stupid.

We get to sacrifice our freedoms (links will be provided if necessary) so you neocon bastards can give "freedoms" and "democracy" to other countries that don't want you there?

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One of those responsibilities is to be a good and reliable ally to our fellow democracies. We cannot build an enduring peace based on freedom by ourselves, and we do not want to. We have to strengthen our global alliances as the core of a new global compact — a League of Democracies — that can harness the vast influence of the more than one hundred democratic nations around the world to [b]advance our values and defend our shared interests. [/b]

Gee, I wonder what advance our values is supposed to mean and what methods are going to be used.

How do you advance your values in areas of the world where there is a common belief that we're immoral?

And what is our shared interests that we need to defend? Oil? What is it?

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Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed. [b]We need to listen to the views and respect the collective will of our democratic allies.[/b]

What about the collective will of Middle Eastern countries and any others that don't want to be like us? Do we need to listen to their views and respect them? Or is anyone against us a terrorist?