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Starhawk said:
I have hope for the future of my country, it's seen bad times before and with any luck it will rise again to a position of respect instead of paranoia and hate.
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One way to ensure that is to not act unilaterally, but with friends and allies. If a nation that is the most powerful in the world acts like nobody else's opinion matters, there is only one ultimate result: the rest of the world will band together against us. You think we're at war now? The rest of the world hates what we did so much that if we don;t regain their trust and respect, we ain't seen nothing yet. And trust and respect is not something you can force on others.
I fear our children and our childrens' children will be reaping the bitter fruit of our dear leader's misguided ways for many years...
I am saddened, also, because I have traveled around the world to countries that ostesibly are enemies of the US. I have been to Iran, Sudan, and a whole load of other places, just me and a backpack. I loved Iran the best - wonderful people, and although they often found issue with US policies, they all loved American people and hated their own government.
Now, I fear that if the American people re-elect Bush, I will never again be able travel in many countries for they will hate Americans as much as they hate Bush.
And, once the world hates the American government AND the American people, we've lost. There will no longer be any "city on a hill" in this country for others to look up to.
EDIT: clarified ambigious grammar