Taking it a little too far

[notyoueither]

Yes, very much so. Do most Americans really want to go there?

Where is that EU membership application?

[LoneWolf]

Sorry, I don't follow.
BTW, I'm sure that you can find many, many Americans that are even more anti-American than you are, if that is your point. It is part of the crippling side of having a free society.

[Drake Tungsten]

Canada hasn't done anything to become America's adversary. The French, on the other hand...

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by LoneWolf
Sorry, I don't follow.

I didn't think you would.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by LoneWolf
BTW, I'm sure that you can find many, many Americans that are even more anti-American than you are, if that is your point.

Someone is bound to frame this.

[LoneWolf]

I see, you would rather talk with Americans who agree with you. Yes, as I say, these should be easy to find. Sorry, I thought you wanted a discussion, not intellectual masturbation.
Can someone help this guy out?

[Drake Tungsten]

Someone is bound to frame this.

You just can't win, can you NYE?

[notyoueither]

No. I'd rather talk to Americans who do not expect that 'my country right or wrong' applies to foreign nations.

[The Mad Monk]

Can I call DL?

Can I, please?

[NeOmega]

All kids should hear their country sucks when it enters an aggressive war.

That way they'll grow up understanding what world opinion is and means.

I hope more Americans hear and get the message....

America sucks.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by LoneWolf

As to the first question, yes, that's why our cowards went there. As to the second, shamefully yes, the Democrats were in charge then.

This has to be a troll. Your Democratic president was basically the only one in the US who wanted to go to war.

[Cyclotron]

Originally posted by NeOmega
All kids should hear their country sucks when it enters an aggressive war.

That way they'll grow up understanding what world opinion is and means.

I hope more Americans hear and get the message....

America sucks.

But we don't. You do.

Honestly, anybody who thinks that "you suck" solves any sort of serious problems is, in fact, a blithering idiot.

[KrazyHorse]

But we don't. You do

He's an American

[Ted Striker]

I think the article made it sound much worse than it actually was.

Also some of the events that occured were just things happening on the side, and not directed towards the visiting kids, the way the article made it sound.

You can see this sort of spin when the article used the phrase, "appeasement march," and then also it used the word, "horrified," several times for drama.

[Agathon]

This is so lame. Last year the New York Islanders' fans booed the Canadian National Anthem purely because the Toronto Maple Leafs had had the impertinence to beat them in a hotly contested hockey game. I doubt this created a stir in the US.

When the US defies the international community and prosecutes what may well turn out to be an illegal war of agression, some Canadians boo the US National Anthem. They got pilloried in the press for it and steps have been taken at hockey games to make sure it doesn't happen again.

I am old enough to remember when the South African rugby team toured New Zealand in defiance of an international agreement not to play sport with that country because of apartheid. Demonstrators followed the team around and made their presence known quite loudly.

Ask yourself these questions: would you have stood up and cheered the South African National Anthem whilst that government was committed to apartheid? Would you have stood up to cheer the Horst Wessel song if a German team had visited your country in the late 30s?

Perhaps booing is going too far. I personally have been sitting down and staying silent during the US National Anthem (last time at a Raptors game in the company of an American who did the same) - that may annoy some people, but there is no way I am going to cheer the anthem of a country which is prosecuting what I consider to be an evil war.

I'm not boycotting American products either. I don't see how my punishing American workers or small business owners will help stop war and it isn't the average American's fault that the war is taking place. Nor is yelling at Americans in the street or calling them names helping anything. Perhaps they could do the same for us.