What do NON-US members think of the following?  

I am from India, thanks for sharing.
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1.is good president.2.first black president elected by white Americans 3.waste of dollar 4.nay.5.foolish woman (is she from US ? 6.nay 7.take care 8.dollar down the drain 9.Big pay packets no GDP 10.that depends 11.hyper 12.are you world police/ people other than US are not human beings. 13.nay 14. nay 15.nay 16.greatly appreciated.17. students teaching teacher 18.ok 19.nay 20. ok. 21.good for US 22.knowledge is good 23.do not attack natural resources.24.good 25.25.nay 26.good 27.nay.28 Shooting spree 29.stop the menace.30.nay 31.not American 32.nay.33.nay 34. good 35. ok 36.should be free of guns 37.catch the window fellow do not allow go out thru B Gates 38.nay 39.honey is good for health care. 40. keep old people old. 41.nay 42.keep fighting 43. keep it up 44. good for foreigners.45. U forgot the tears of Japan. 46.never take everybody for granted.47.implement it in Pakistan/Afghanistan 48-50 nay. 51.normal P>S>nay means I have no reponse for that item. I love Americans no grudges.

Obviously, as you know I'm from the US but I just wanted to tell you I love your choice of issues! You really covered just about everything we Americans are interested in, in some cases obsessed with. I'll be reading with interest what our non-USA members have to say on them all.

Annie

I would not know where to start with this.

So I will keep it simple.
America is a land of extremes.
And your politicians are very weak, too scare of making harsh decisions, in trying to please everyone.

1) You have your capitalists, determined to make as much money as possible, at any cost. They don't care about the environment, the planet, or humanity for that matter. When they die, they are taking their billions with them to start over somewhere else.

2) You have your red neck who don't want anything to change. Those people are living in the 19th century and still would love to have black people as their slave. They are the one having tea parties.

3) At the other end, you have what we call in Australia "The Do Gooders". Those are the people who want to fight wars without killing anyone. Yes, we must retaliate after the 9/11, but don't kill any innocent civilian while you invade Afghanistan. So instead of having a war lasting 3 months, you have a war lasting 9 years, with no end in sight.

4) Nobody has any illusion about the fact that Bush Junior invaded Iraq on the order of Bush Senior. Saddam made a fool of Bush Senior, and it became the job of Bush Junior to avenge the mistakes of his father by taking Saddam out.

5) America's economy relies heavily on the manufacture of weapons.
That is the reason why, America has been at war every single day somewhere in the world for the past 70 years.
It is also part of the reason why America don't want to hear about gun control.
Self defense is only an excuse to hide the real reason. People are being brain wash by the manufacturers of weapons in believing that they will be safe by having a gun under their pillow.

6) America is perhaps the most Christian country in the world. And that's where the hypocrisis come in. Thanking God in every sentence while promoting war and violence against anyone breaking the Christian law. Never mind that one of those laws clearly say "you should not kill".

7) War, you are not even any good at it.
Your strengh comes from the fact that you have the most powerful navy and airforce in the world. You have air and sea supremacy by your sheer number of planes and ships. You win wars by carpet bombing whole cities. But when it is time to send the infantry in, you are hopeless. Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, you just don't know how to do it.
Lets not forget that the only war you really won was the Pacific, and you won it by dropping two atomic bombs on Japan. That is what you do best. Brute force wins the day. There is no skill or tactical effort in it.

Bush Senior carpet bombed Iraq for one month in 1991, and when the time came to send the infantry after Saddam, he re-called the troops home. And the rest is history.