5 years after 9/11, many angry at U.S.

AP via Yahoo ^ | September 11, 2006 | ELAINE GANLEY

[frogjerk]

Why do people go into mental vapor-lock whenever Europe is mentioned?

Because they are part of the problem.

[Cobra64]

This warrants a triple:

[Marathoner]

Let me just say they can all go f--k themselves BUMP! Especially today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You beat me to it, so I'll just BTTT.

[1rudeboy]

Who's "they?" The people that respond like dogs to red meat whenever Chancellor Merkel's opinion on the torture of prisoners is misrepresented?

[Dems_R_Losers]

[zek157]

But they are supposed to help us deal with Iran & North Korea? These are the same people/nations that would piss on our country's ashes after they stop glowing regardless of what we do to appease.

[frogjerk]

Five years later and the search continues for the moderates. "We know they are out there somewhere. They must be."

Ralph Peters knows they are out there somewhere. That is why he is talking for them instead of us hearing from them ourselves...

ISLAM-HATERS: AN ENEMY WITHIN

[wita]

"In the fight against international terror ... respect for human rights, tolerance and respect for other cultures must be the maxim of our actions, along with decisiveness and international cooperation," she said.

A far more telling comment than the one mentioned. One wonders why any country believing what she proposes, would have an army, navy, or airforce.

[monday]

"Even German Chancellor Angela Merkel ........."In the fight against international terror ... respect for human rights, tolerance and respect for other cultures must be the maxim of our actions" she said.

Anyone who tolerates a culture like Islam, which will not tolerate any other culture, has already agreed to wear a burka and pray to Mecca.

[Berlin_Freeper]

"Who's "they?" The people that respond like dogs to red meat whenever Chancellor Merkel's opinion on the torture of prisoners is misrepresented?"

You seem extremely sensitive about other peoples opinions for someone that responds like the above.

[reagan_fanatic]

While I certainly don't wish it to happen, the only thing that will shake these countries out of their comfortable coccoon of complacency would be to have an attack as big or bigger than 9/11 happen on their soil.

Too many of them view islamist terrorism as 'America's problem' rather than the World's problem - a mistake that one day will cost them dearly.

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

The nations of the world joined Monday in solemn remembrance of Sept. 11

These people are so hypocritical that it's enough to make me puke.

"solemn remembrance" my arse. They don't care. but it's good political theatre.

[vimto]

This seditious stuff is a disgrace. Today of all days the world should show some respect and stop undermining the USA.

I stand shoulder to shoulder with you. It's not much but it is important to say it.

Also see:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1699331/posts

[1rudeboy]

No, not sensitive at all. I'm simply in awe. Maybe you can elaborate on Chancellor Merkel's comments? This AP reporter appears to have conflated one of her comments on prisoner torture with another statement made separately . . . when a German citizen was kidnapped in Iraq. And it appears that nearly everyone on this thread is falling for it.

[demkicker]

Wonder why we don't see this type of article:

Five years after 9/11, Americans are still angry with the French, irritated with Russia and China, thoroughly disgusted with the United Nations and no longer trust the biased MSM as reliable news sources?

[chimera]

Critics say Americans have squandered the goodwill that prompted France's Le Monde newspaper to proclaim "We are all Americans" that somber day after the attacks, and that the Iraq war and other U.S. policies have made the world less safe in the five years since.

Yep, things are really bad here, that must be why tens of thousands are willing to risk life and limb for the chance to live here. I guess if everyone hates this country so much they won't mind if we close our borders.

[Dr. Frank fan]

5 years after 9/11, many in the U.S. still don't give a rat's ass about foreigners' unjustified, petulant "anger".

Critics say Americans have squandered the goodwill that prompted France's Le Monde newspaper to proclaim "We are all Americans" that somber day after the attacks

There was no substance to that supposed "goodwill" to "squander". The "goodwill" lasted only as long as we agreed to remain docile victims.

and that the Iraq war and other U.S. policies have made the world less safe in the five years since.

"made the world less safe" is one of those meaningless phrases spewed by people who think it will make them sound smart. Quick, lefty genius: what was the Global Safety Index of The World in 2001, and what is it today? How much has it declined? Surely there is some objective substance to this claim that we have "made the world less safe". Couldn't just be makin' up meaningless phrases, could you?

And dissident voices brushed the portrait of a planet that has traded in civil liberties and other democratic rights in its war on terror.

Yes, we've traded in so many "democratic rights". Like the "right" to speak to an Al Qaeda member in Pakistan on the phone secure in the knowledge that nobody from the government is recording the conversation to scan for keyword and, if any show up, to listen to later.

Oh no wait. That one was struck down by a judge. So then. Can any of the whiners about all of the supposed "civil liberties and other democratic rights" they have lost, give any real significant examples?

Even German Chancellor Angela Merkel — an advocate of closer ties with Washington — had veiled criticism of the United States, saying: "The ends cannot justify the means."

Um, of course ends don't justify means. The fact that the AP reporter considers this "veiled criticism of the United States" says more about the AP reporter's opinion than about anyone else's.

New Zealand's Prime Minister Helen Clark joined many when she said: "No, we're not more secure since 9/11."

Thanks for your two cents, New Zealand's Prime Minister. So how many attacks has New Zealand suffered since 9/11?

Clark said more should be done to reach out to moderate states and leaders in the Islamic world to encourage understanding between different peoples, and to help end the sense of alienation and exclusion among some young Muslims that fuels extremism.

Brilliant. Yeah, that'll probably work.

France's President Jacques Chirac, in Helsinki, reiterated in a written message to President Bush of his nation's "friendship" in the fight against terrorism.

"Friendship" in the sense of, "Will try to prevent you from doing anything you want to do".

That solidarity quickly dissipated into rancor in the buildup to the Iraq war, when Chirac led opposition to Bush's plans.

Yes, it did, didn't it? The "solidarity" quickly dissipated. Funny how the reporter can write this sentence and not realize its import. When "solidarity" dissipates quickly, is that really a comment about us? Or about the strength of the supposed "solidarity" to begin with?

Israel's Haaretz daily expressed disappointment and cynicism in an op-ed piece that said: "This is Sept. 11 five years later: a political tool in the hands of the Bush administration."

It's just a good thing that Haaretz stayed above the fray and didn't attempt to use Sept. 11 as a political tool - you know, by taking potshots at Bush in the editorials they write, etc.

But on the streets in the capital, Kabul, many Afghans grumbled that they had not seen much improvement.

Our fault, surely. Let's bring back the Taliban.

Despite about 20,000 U.S. forces fighting al-Qaida and Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, and about the same number of NATO troops, and billions in aid, a resurgent Taliban resistance has shaken the country, while corruption has stymied development.

It's bad that Taliban are resurgent - therefore we shouldn't have invaded and toppled the Taliban. Meanwhile there is corruption amongst Afghan elites - which is our fault. Yes, I'm familiar with this sort of tune.

In neighboring Pakistan, considered a major ally in the U.S.-led war on terror, newspapers ran bleak-toned opinion columns and editorials criticizing Western anti-terror policies and attitudes.

And this is the last sentence of the article. Bizarre. Hey thanks Elaine Ganley for this stellar reporting about what kind of things newspapers in Pakistan are editorializing.

[masadaman]

In one or two generations, our money won't mean much to them either as they will have elected to join other Islamic regimes. Just do the math based on the average European nation only reproducing at 1.5 children for each couple versus their 10-20% now minority Muslim populations reproducing at 4-5 children per couple.

Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Holland and THE UK will have no choice but to become Muslim based on democracy and the ballot box. Churches will be turned into mosques; the free press will be history as will our Western take on modern culture.

[RoseofTexas]

SO they hate us...hmmmmm and when tragedy hits them WHO do they first call for HELP?!! UGHHHH! I guess we're only useful when we FORK over millions and millions of dollars outta our crack to help them!!