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Old 10-19-07, 12:47 PM   #3
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That's an interesting film and well worth a look (warning, it's an hour long).

Of course it doesn't really tell anyone outside the US anything we don't already know about how the US is perceived around the world, but it may well serve to open a few US eyes which look out, rather than in. These days, with attacks on US soil and US citizens dying in foreign lands in two wars, Americans have a better understanding of what it means to have explosions going off in your homeland of course, which for many other countries has been a fact of life for more years than they can remember.

I'm actually a real fan of the founding principles of the United States, and frankly I think what they did to my own country (UK) 200-odd years ago was totally righteous; the words of Jefferson and Payne et al are something other countries would do well in striving to follow, so understand that I am not having a pop at the US here, merely the people in power who steer it for their own ends. But the current US is so far removed from upholding those concepts these days that it is easy to see why so many peoples around the world view the US as an enemy, and the repercussions of what seeds are sewn were of course writ large on 9/11, and it will happen again if policy stays the same, of that you can be sure.

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