It's quite unfair not to be an American.
I don't mean living in their cities. Or working at one of their jobs. Or participating in their society and culture. Those are all things most people from non-third world countries could do without.
What I'm talking about is not being able to have any say over where they point their guns and who they decide to go bomb.
That is really the most important immediate issue affecting the people of the world these days. It used to be an illusion of mine that 'don't invade us we won't invade you' was a pretty good international policy for most countries, but to misquote Hamlet 'What Needs They Fear When None Can Call their Power to Account?'.
There are decisions being made in-front-of and behind the cameras these days that will affect the lives of everyone living in the modern age and yet it seems that a minority of pollsters, 'media personalities', corporate opinion makers, and assorted nutballs have an inordinate influence over the trigger fingers of the strongest military force.
EDIT: Oh, and to head off the inevitable comment, I am over five years old and realize that life isn't fair.
I don't mean living in their cities. Or working at one of their jobs. Or participating in their society and culture. Those are all things most people from non-third world countries could do without.
What I'm talking about is not being able to have any say over where they point their guns and who they decide to go bomb.
That is really the most important immediate issue affecting the people of the world these days. It used to be an illusion of mine that 'don't invade us we won't invade you' was a pretty good international policy for most countries, but to misquote Hamlet 'What Needs They Fear When None Can Call their Power to Account?'.
There are decisions being made in-front-of and behind the cameras these days that will affect the lives of everyone living in the modern age and yet it seems that a minority of pollsters, 'media personalities', corporate opinion makers, and assorted nutballs have an inordinate influence over the trigger fingers of the strongest military force.
EDIT: Oh, and to head off the inevitable comment, I am over five years old and realize that life isn't fair.
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