Guys can we calm this down
Rich/Colin 95% of your posts are anti american.. this is just yank bashing - and not really objectice
i cannot stand Tony Blair - but, the guys from the states do not label me as a Tony Blair fan.
not can you label all americans Bush lovers, considering that a large percentage did not vote for him.
Now I don't like Bush and he's an arse, but I would never label all americans as bush lovers.
each society has its fair share of idiots (US/UK/Europe etc)
but to use these people as the benchmark to judge the rest of the country is not objective.
America has its problems and I could harp on about them, but equally the UK has similar problems, its easy to poke holes in soeones shortcoming (America ) but to do it objectively you need to be able to say we alos have this problems or we don't according to what view you are looking at .
America is such a large country that to be honest those in the north are different fromt hose in the South , it would be like treating the Norweigina and comparing them to the Spanish.
you just cannot do it objectively - different climates breed different views on life etc.
However this does not mean that the US can get away scotch free, America has bullied other nations , and has disrespect for their views and legal systems, which has lead to a lot of bad feeling about america.
the view that comes out of the US is that they are the only nation that has a free society - which is complete rubbish, no nation has complete freedom.
nor is america the free-est (neither is the UK) .
but it likes to think it is and really can rub people up the wrong way
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