World of Suck

You know how in the 3 stooges Moe pokes Larry and Larry passes it on to Curly instead of poking back? That's how interpret the image of the US to the rest of the world. Yes, that's a rather encompassing statement - but let me refine it better:

Sunni's and Shiites have been killing each other for ages. However now - when a bomb goes off in a Shiite mosque they don't blame the local tensions that made it happen they blame the US. Better still they attack what they see as local symbols of Americanism (in this case a KFC) and wind up killing more locals. The pervading attitude is that America is responsible for all the woes muslims (in this case) are currently burdened with.

Excuse me? We're not the ones planting the bomb killing your locals. And we're certainly NOT the ones burning the local businesses and killing yet even more locals in the process. Putting aside the economical reprocussions of the US suspending our financial and industrial aid to these countries, are people really so willing to believe that the US is the sole reason for the bomb in the first place?

I suppose it vastly oversimplifies the situation to say that maybe if these nations were less interested in killing each other, had effective law enforcement and politics less riddled with graft perhaps they might be able to make some headway in terms of the average man's quality of life. It appears to the untrained that these nations simply want our standard of living, yet refuse to build the infrastructure to support it. Even if they were to miraculously to inherit our situation I would propose that unless they would alter their social and political designs to mirror ANY 1st world nation (Germany, Canada, Italy, whomever...)that their nation would immediately return to the same state they're in today.

You can't want what America has unless you want to earn it, and support it the same way we do. Further, if you don't have the balls to make your own nation a better place to live - then don't fucking blame us when you decide to kill the guy next door.