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From: todd@SCIRTP.UUCP (Todd Jones)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: America-bashing
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Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 17:20:56 EDT
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> > There are a number of reasons why the rest of the world hates America.
> 
> The hate may be very real, but does it make the attacks 
> on US citizens more acceptable?  

Whether or not these attacks are acceptable is moot.
The point the sympathizers (of America-bashers) were
attempting to make deals with the sources of the
America-bashing behavior. We should not condone the
attacks, but we should attempt to determine why they
happen. If there is justification for the hate (not
the attacks, flamers), which I believe there is, we
should attempt to address those causes.

> Are we supposed to start beating on ourselves as well?  
> Do you honestly believe that if the US became more docile 
> that the attacks would stop?

I don't believe we should become submissive, but we must
address the very real reasons why America is perceived
as a global leech, consuming the world's resources without
providing for those not American.

> There has been a rationale on the net (as well as other places) concerning
> terrorism/hijacking that is remarkably similar to the following line of
> thinking:  If a woman is attacked, she asked for it.  Her attacker hates
> women, because his mother/wife/whoever did him wrong, and so he sees women
> as the cause of all his problems.  Since she is a woman, she drove him to do
> it.  Therefore, she must change her ways, if this sort of thing is to stop.
> 

> David Olson
> ..!ihnp4!drutx!dlo

I don't find this analagous to my feelings on the subject. 
I don't support hijacking and I don't support rape. 
The hijackers/terrorists should not be accomodated in their demands 
and they should be punished for their actions.
A rapist with a history of childhood abuse and neglect should be
punished for his crime. If however there is a way in which we
can prevent child abuse and neglect (which in turn will reduce
rape tendencies) we should pursue it. 

Americans are largely ignorant of the extent to which our
prosperity is dependent on the oppression of non-Americans.
We are taught to believe that hard work and ingenuity are
the forces that have propelled us to our status as world
leaders. While we have worked hard and are ingenious, we
have fueled these attributes with resources from other
countries. The U.S.S.R. does the same thing, but they
haven't done it as long, so exploited peoples are more
naive towards Marxism. If the U.S. would reverse its
foreign policies and assist non-Americans in establishing
true democracies (not these puppet fascist regimes who
serve American mulitinational corporate interests), we
would find America treated with respect and the Marxist
surge would subside. Let's show the world that democracy is
better through actions, not bogus rhetoric.

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