There is no way you are not American; you arrive somewhere, don't bother to learn anything about the culture, put everyone in the same bag without bothering to analyze the different currents and their respective characteristics then proceed to tell people how things should be run (exactly like you want to live and according to your value and to serve your interests). You'll be next be puzzled when you fail and will say everyone hates you because of your purity. You have a bright future in foreign affairs.
1-3. I don't care about Brad. I responded to Brad. Let's not talk about Brad; if I have anything further to say about Brad, I'll take care to resolve it through PMs.
4. No; why should I expect the best out of everybody? I'm just pointing out the reasons I don't post much in this thread, or read it, explaining why I missed an apparently "obvious question." Since I said what I needed to, why should I go on about it? Don't worry, if you think WAYWT's fine, I'm just going to keep it moving.
This is one of the most arrogant yet petty things I've ever read. If you think there is something wrong with WAYWT, how can this possibly be the way to change it?
How can you come into a thread and think that posters should change their tastes and preferences just because it doesn't suit you?
It's a joke via an amusing analogy, get over it, American foreign policy of the last 50 yrs can be described exactly that way....
Yeah, like a lot of my jokes, I'm sure it came out better in your head. You were imagining you were going to tie me to Bush, then to Abu Ghraib, then maybe cap it off with something about imperialistic neo-colonialism and the Davos World Conference. Maybe next time though.
PS: I'm a naturalized immigrant, albeit a citizen since I was very young. Does that change the calculus at all?
This is one of the most arrogant yet petty things I've ever read. If you think there is something wrong with WAYWT, how can this possibly be the way to change it?
How can you come into a thread and think that posters should change their tastes and preferences just because it doesn't suit you?
Hendrix, I seriously respect you, as a poster and style critic. I am really not trying to pick a fight here, and sincerely apologize If it comes off that way.
Look: I asked I an earnest question. Apparently it was a stupid or newb question; I can understand that. Brad added a pointless flame; I responded. It ends there; I don't want to have a hand in keeping alive or engendering exactly what I dislike about this thread! Please contact me through PM if you have any further advice/criticism/comments; I would definitely listen from you.
Don't feed the trolls. Just ignore them and move on until they get bored or say something outrageously over the top in a bid for attention.
Fuuma's critique was wicked great though, so we got at least one good thing out of this week's episode of WAYWTOff the Tracks
Oh I have said everything I needed to and did ad whateverhisname on ignore. Honestly it's a shame wherever I see Americans get pissed when their foreign affair positions and media coverage gets criticized for being lacking (yes, lacking compared to other western nations with much smaller influence and ability to project power), if I was American I'd be the first to be pissed and concerned about it. Of course most people don't really remember much beside recent history (say Dubya and after) so they think it was some sort of personality problem/post 9-11 error. You should look at the Iran revolution and hostage crisis or something to see it's a pattern. Ah well, wrong thread.
PS: I'm a red-blooded American, born and raised, and I can see what Fuuma was getting at. Just because you too are an American doesn't mean he is saying all of us are like that... merely that the majority of people who do act like that are indeed Americans. Jumping down his throat about the comment merely proves him more correct, which isn't to say that he wasn't correct in the first place.