OT: Worldview of USA?

[weswood]

I've just watched a political documentary that I don't want to name, this being an election year here in the US and I don't want to start a political argument here. But the film mentioned the world influence of the United States.

In my opinion, I would prefer the USA to pull out of the public eye somewhat. We send millions of dollars to different countries, some of which seem to hate the US. We have troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, both of which seem to not like us. I think we (the U.S.) should pull out of coutries in which we are not invited, maybe even negotiate treaties where the countries that ask us to be there pay us either money or trade status, I think the US should stop sending money to nations until we get our own debt settled and have an excess to give away. I'm not saying the US should put it's head in the sand or be xenophobic but withdraw it's influence from countries we're not welcome in. The film I watched inferred that a lot of nations felt they were being "colonized" by America and it's capitolism and way of life.

What's some of the other members' here opinion?

[raketenjagdpanzer]

The world hates my country. If we do nothing, we get screamed at that we're doing nothing while the world goes up in flames. If we step in, we get screamed at that we're the cause of all the world's troubles. If we stop and consider we get screamed at that we're fiddling while Rome burns. When 60% of the world decides its OK for us to actually do something that involves our military, the world loses their shit when actual military things happen.

I gave up on the world and world opinions long ago. If it's the considered thought by the world at large that we should just leave everything alone, then, well, that's fine by me. I don't think we should beg Israel to temper their response against Hamas and other terrorist governments, or hold off on hitting Iran. I don't think we should send food to Central Africa for any reason. I don't think we should share our processor technologies with Taiwan and China. I don't think we should grant any more H1-B Visas, nor outsource programming jobs to Bangalore. I don't think we should sell military hardware to our allies who ask for it. I don't think we should honor any more treaties regarding fishing rights in the North Atlantic. I don't think we should allow any more international network routing traffic to go through the US. I don't think we should buy Saudi oil. The reason we don't is we're too timid to exploit what we do have, which is actually plenty. I don't think we should sell food to the rest of the world.

If the world hates us so much, and what I've learned over the last 20 years is that it almost universally does, then we should just fuck right off and let them get along without us.

[simonmark6]

This thread already has train wreck written all over it.

As a citizen of the world I humbly apologise for all the hate.

[Jason Weiser]

Ahem,
Moderator, Paging the moderator please.

[weswood]

I'm NOT trying to start a war, I'm trying to see if my opinion of how the world sees the US is in fact how the world sees us. The only non-US citizens I know are on this board.

In fact, if it bothers the majority of the board members, if there are any replies, PM me.

[kato13]

This is WAAAAAY too political.

Anything further can happen in PMs.