Greatest Threat To World Peace

[Jazzy]

The United States is the greatest threat to world peace. That’s the finding of an end-of-the- year, WIN/Gallup International survey of people in 65 countries.

Of the 66,000 people polled, just under a quarter named Uncle Sam as the greatest threat to world peace.

Other menaces didn’t even come close: 8 percent named Pakistan, putting that country in second place, while 6 percent named China. A mere 4 percent found Iran threatening — which tied it with Israel.

As we were reading the results, we couldn’t help thinking we had seen it all before. And when we looked, we found a 2006 Pew Research Center poll of 17,000 people from 15 different countries that found something very similar: More people thought the US intervention in Iraq a threat to world peace than Iran.

Back then, of course, the press summarized the findings this way: It’s all because of Bush. As Britain’s Guardian newspaper put it in its lead sentence on the survey: “George Bush’s six years in office have so damaged the image of the US that people worldwide see Washington as a bigger threat to world peace than Tehran.”

In 2008, President Obama would go on to campaign about how Bush’s policies had harmed America’s standing in the world, at one point suggesting that attitudes in the Muslim world would be transformed simply by his election.

It hasn’t turned out that way, as these Gallup numbers suggest. Maybe we’d do better to accept the real message of all these global surveys: There are many people in this world who don’t like the US and will regard us as a threat no matter who’s president.

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Do you agree with this poll? Why / Why not?

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

You know what? The world always looks to America when there is a huge natural disaster to help with money, food and resources. When evil attacks around the world the world asks America what are you going to do about it? Well we get no thanks for our government spending millions and billions to help others. And when we do decide to act against evil in the world we get accused of doing it for nothing but profit even though we spend billions building other nations while ours crumbles from horrible leaders.

So thats fine let the world and other countries handle there own problems and so long ago we should have stopped with the billions we send to other countries so they stay our fake friends. Pull out all our bases and troops around the world and give everyone the middle finger!

 

[DrLeftover]

Which side of the poll would Candidate Obama would have been on in 2007?

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Which side of the poll would Candidate Obama would have been on in 2007?

And what side would the dear leader be on today. I know the answer.

 

[Evil Eye]

TRUE LIBERTY, you seem upset, I would've expected you to agree with this.

Look at it this way, there's a big nuclear-capable nation and its people consistently and continuously complain about their government's actions. Bringing up topics such as a loss of liberties, invasion of privacy, etc. You yourself have said you don't trust your government one bit, if a nation's citizens don't trust it, why should the rest of the world?

I'm honestly mystified at why you put up with your electoral system. It's designed to keep power away from everyone. Not exactly built on trust, so to speak.

The face you as a nation present to the world is not a positive one and, judging by the results of that poll, past deeds don't outweigh it.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

TRUE LIBERTY, you seem upset, I would've expected you to agree with this.

Look at it this way, there's a big nuclear-capable nation and its people consistently and continuously complain about their government's actions. Bringing up topics such as a loss of liberties, invasion of privacy, etc. You yourself have said you don't trust your government one bit, if a nation's citizens don't trust it, why should the rest of the world?

I'm honestly mystified at why you put up with your electoral system. It's designed to keep power away from everyone. Not exactly built on trust, so to speak.

The face you as a nation present to the world is not a positive one and, judging by the results of that poll, past deeds don't outweigh it.

This is not a easy question to answer for me. I admit right now I am full of double standards on this.

But yes I am angry with the worlds governments and even more with ours.

I agree the world should be suspicious but yet its the world that always calls on us and when the people of America send billions to a nation and our resources we get squat for appreciation. We have had tsunami and earthquakes around the world in the last 14 years. BILLIONS of dollars in private money more then the world combined we give out and the people still get scorned from the world. I am just saying screw you all and see how it goes when the next poor nation cant get help after a huge earthquake happens.

I have no problem with the electoral system. The problem is a nation full of idiots who know every person on American idol but cant name a single person currently in Congress. Or a college graduate cant tell us who the president was during WW2. Or when asked who did the Gettysburg Address they say they don't know where that address is. And ask another college graduate where central America is and they say Kansas. The system our founders created only works for a informed people not a people who vote on feelings and free stuff.

Past deeds? The devastating Haiti earthquake was not that long ago. The Japanese disaster was not that long ago. Turkey earth quake not long ago.

In total, the U.S. Government on average responds to approximately 70 to 80 natural disasters worldwide annually.
http://govbooktalk.gpo.gov/2012/03/05/the-u-s-military-storms-to-the-rescue-in-foreign-disaster-relief/

Approve or disapprove of the two wars we were in we spent close to a trillion dollars on and countless billions lost on trying to rebuild the two countries and we get called evil for the pittance of oil profits from it. Our countries is going down the tubes stealing working peoples money for the lazy and destroying freedoms for the individual but the rest of the world is far more ahead of us in those areas.

 

[Evil Eye]

Past deeds? The devastating Haiti earthquake was not that long ago. The Japanese disaster was not that long ago. Turkey earth quake not long ago.

My point exactly.
At this point it likely doesn't matter one bit what you actually do as a country, you'll still be hated and/or made fun of.

The system our founders created only works for a informed people not a people who vote on feelings and free stuff.

Now, I'm no expert, but I seem to remember you have delegates that do the voting for you without being required to take notice of anyone else's opinion on the matter precisely because they expected voters to be uninformed. (Talk about run-on sentences.)

Our countries is going down the tubes stealing working peoples money for the lazy and destroying freedoms for the individual but the rest of the world is far more ahead of us in those areas.

I'm not going to dispute that, but it's all about context. If I had to draw up a top 5 countries I would want to be born in, the US would not be on it.

 

[DrLeftover]

I'm curious, where else would you rather live that has a substantially different lifestyle and government?

 

[Evil Eye]

Substantially would be relative, but I was thinking along the lines of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Austria, Australia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand...
It's not about moving or living so much, it's about having been born and raised in any of these.

 

[DrLeftover]

YOU INFIDEL!

Those are all still Western Democratic-Style Government, at least Nominally CHRISTIAN, and of the First World Exploiters of the Masses and Abusers of the World's Resources!

 

[DrLeftover]

Question.

If the US is the greatest threat to the world.

Why did Nigeria call on the US to help find and rescue the captured schoolgirls and not, say, Iraq and North Korea?

 

[Capricorn]

calling American a Threat is a Mainstream now. i hope 1 day pakistanis bomb them so they can understand who is real threat to the world.

 

[Jazzy]

calling American a Threat is a Mainstream now. i hope 1 day pakistanis bomb the so they can understand who is real threat to the world.

Bomb who?

 

[Capricorn]

calling American a Threat is a Mainstream now. i hope 1 day pakistanis bomb the so they can understand who is real threat to the world.

Bomb who?

Of the 66,000 people polled, just under a quarter named Uncle Sam as the greatest threat to world peace.

 

[Jazzy]

calling American a Threat is a Mainstream now. i hope 1 day pakistanis bomb the so they can understand who is real threat to the world.

Bomb who?

Of the 66,000 people polled, just under a quarter named Uncle Sam as the greatest threat to world peace.

Still not understanding. Would you rather it read: Pakistan is the greatest threat to world peace?

 

[Evil Eye]

Why did Nigeria call on the US to help find and rescue the captured schoolgirls and not, say, Iraq and North Korea?

If I had to make a guess?
Their general incompetence prevents them from being the greatest threat and from being of any use to other nations.

 

[DrLeftover]

Why did Nigeria call on the US to help find and rescue the captured schoolgirls and not, say, Iraq and North Korea?

If I had to make a guess?
Their general incompetence prevents them from being the greatest threat and from being of any use to other nations.

You have a point there.

Unfortunately, we must now also consider the general incompetence with the civilian authorities at all levels inside the 495 Beltway along the Potomac.