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On a recent trip to Japan, President Obama bowed to his counterpart, Emperor Akihito. This act of RESPECT is being met with hoots and howls from conservatives who feel that was the wrong thing to do. They are saying that by bowing, Obama is making America “look bad.” Where have these people been the last 8 years?
The reason America looks bad ALL OVER THE WORLD is because for DECADES we have gone around the world treating people however the FUCK we wanted to. Then when and if anyone complained, they were met with “yeah and” attitudes. We force people who come over to this country to speak English and then when we go to their country, we expect them to understand English. We have bombed, financially raped, bullied, cajoled, and threatened, countries into attacking Iraq and Afghanistan with a lie about “weapons of mass destruction” and found NOTHING! The world is not safer and instead of making friends, or at least have working relationships with countries different from ours, we have created millions of enemies. According to conservative pundit, William Kristol, a bow is making us look “weak and overly deferential?” A Bow!
Most people feel sorry for bullies. Because they already know that the reason bullies act the way they do is because they have low self esteem. And they need to push other people around to feel superior. Sounds EXACTLY how America is viewed by most of the world. Yet this act of KINDNESS and RESPECT is bad “for America?”
America IS the BLAME for the global depression we are experiencing now. it was OUR IDEA to get into two wars at the same time. And it was OUR IDEA to spend the money to bomb these countries, then spend even more money rebuilding them! And those allies who followed behind us like love sick puppies have seen their own economies go down as well. And in return, they have had fellow countrymen and women sent home with missing limbs if they are LUCKY and in BODY BAGS if they were not so lucky.
Earlier this year while watching an “International Finance Show” one of the men from Britain made this statement. It was matter of fact without any extra emotion. He stated that “it was AMERICA who got us all into this mess. And it will have to be AMERICA who gets us out of it!”
If a bow can help keep other countries at least willing to work with it, I’m all for it. Because as a person who lives in this country and doesn’t buy into Xenophobia, we have a lot of work to do to make our image look better all around the world. And complaining about a show of Courtesy and Respect to another world leader is not a way to do it!
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