From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Fri Jun 20 2003 - 00:22:19 MDT
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Snippets from a moderately toned, Washington Times article.
<"What we think of ourselves does not depend on the opinions of others," says
*You can't please everyone, especially when some of those "everyones" want
and...
<<Indeed, a Carnegie poll in November of more than 1,000 foreign-born
*Comming to a different language and social structure is rugged. On the other
*Humble? Why we are the humblest people on Earth! :-D Arrogant, maybe. I
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: Fri Jun 20 2003 - 00:31:25 MDT
Matthew Spalding, director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American
Studies at the Heritage Foundation. "And that is what it means to be self-governing,
as our founders originally intended. It gives us great confidence."
"We don't ignore world opinion, but we don't allow it to determine our
fate. At our core, we have intellectual and moral independence in the very
largest sense."
Poll numbers support that, too.
Almost six out of 10 Americans, according to a recent ABC News poll, are
not particularly concerned that the relationships with France, Germany and
Russia were bruised during the war against Iraq. >>
the US as a pacified, dumb, puppet.*
immigrants found that 80 percent of them, given the chance to "do it again," would
come to the United States; 96 percent said they were happy; and 80 percent
called this nation "a unique country that stands for something special in the
world." >>
hand, the US is still one of the few 'immigration' countries left.*
and,...
<<This week, it was the British Broadcasting Corp.'s turn to poke at America.
A BBC poll of 11,000 persons in 11 countries released Tuesday said 65 percent
of those surveyed thought Americans were "arrogant," and 85 percent said
Americans were not "humble." >>
don't sit around work all day thinking how great America is. I worry about us
becomming less free, and in turn we become less free because we are less
resolute. The American political establishment's love-affair with the Saudi-ruling
class troubles me, the lack of understanding that when high-tech jobs go
overseas to foreign outsourced companies (as has been argued before), nobody locally
will benefit in the US., except the Boards of Directors. Long-term we wind up
with a poorer country. The need for a decent energy policy worries me, and so
forth. So, I for one, do not sit back confidently, with my feet up and gloat
over America and the rest of the world. I see much of the world, resentful and
envious of the US. Whether that envy is rationally merited is another issue,
but thats what I see, or focus on.