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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
OK, just one! My question is, why is it that all you foreigners even give a damn about what we do to 'our' country? All these things mentioned in this article have absolutely no effect on you. We drill, so what? We mine, so what? Its not your country. Has absolutely no effect on your environment.
Just curious.
-S
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Subman, and all other Americans who may also have this unspoken question -
We have a saying where I come from, "When America sneezes, the world catches a cold".
What it means is that the USA is a fundamental player on the world stage, that a lot of whatever it does affects the world.
Case in point - the mortgage crisis. What started as bad debts caused by questionable lending practices has ballooned into a global financial crisis.
As another example, why is the US$ being used as a global currency of sorts?
So there is global interest, simply because the ramifications of US policy are felt globally.
We looked to Bush for leadership on climate change. Instead we got a flat rejection of the Kyoto protocol. It was only earlier this year that he tried to assuage global opinion by making some half-hearted concessions. Too little too late.
The last 8 years have been a disaster for the world. We do not want a repeat of a Bush administration for the next 8.