“Five years after the US invasion, Iraq lies in ruins”
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That was the 2nd sentence which of course is NOT true, and I don’t need to read further.
Where did the author learn to write? The Writing School of Osama Bin laden?
maybe he should apply to write for CNN and the AP, because the hatred for America is almost the same in their reporting.
Gimme a break. If we were actually an empire, we’d be pillaging and bringing back the loot (ie, loading up Iraqi oil on Exxon tankers for shipment to the states).
Oh, yea, and, if I remember correctly, when empires went pillaging, they weren’t actually all that worried about collateral/civilian casualties. Oh, yea, I forget - during Roman times there was no such thing - Carthaginian ? Death! Egyptian ? Death! Whomever resisted ? Death!
If we’re an empire, we’re damned kindler gentler one, that’s for sure. Perhaps we should decide to be a real one, ie, fly some B52s over the lands of those that oppose us and instill a bit more ‘respect’ for the ‘empire’.
Are there any Egyptians alive today who don’t view the world through the filter of islamic insanity?
Wow.....I want what he’s smoking.
Dear Mr. El-Amir,
This all sounds like a lot of wishful thinking on your part, but maybe it will get you a seat closer to the head table at the next Muslim Brotherhood barbecue.
Hey, is that pork I smell on your breath? Where’s the Religious Police?
This guy will get an offer from NYT if he keeps this up.
The American Chomskyites will pick this up and run with it — in their usual stupid, blind, and ignorant-of-history manner.
Sounds much like our liberal press. What can we expect? I sat on a plane beside a pilot who happened to be from Jordan. What was interesting is how different his perspective was. He was born and raised in Jordan and married a western woman. He was actually supportive of the Iraq war. Given the press here which brings down all opinions to the one they wish to publicize the most one would think that all the Arab/Muslim world hates us. That could not be further from the truth.
In muzzie war zones, this guy would be categorized as shell shocked
Ayman El-Amir f*** y**!
Feel the love from the country we send $5 billion a year in aid too. I say we stop sending them $5 billion a year all in the name of shutting down our imperial conquest machine.
Really, we liberated Europe twice. Japan, Philippines, China are independent countries, freed from European (not American ) colonialism. Some of them are democracies. The middle east, which was part of the Turkish empire and after that British or French colonies are nation states, including Egypt.
He does have one point, "imperialists" grab and hold. We did not and do not. Even Cuba is a separate country, and Puerto Rico can vote to be independent if they want to, they are not compelled to stay a territory. As so-called imperialists we are do a rotten job of oppressive imperialism.
Perhaps it is because we believe in freedom, even for idiots like the author.
yup...state controlled press...and then the newspapers in the US insist that the US is unpopular because it’s Bush’s fault, not because people read only propaganda...
time for us all to wring our hands over the terrible situation around the world that is our horribly unpopular status as a nation.
Let me see. This buttplug says that 160 years of the USA has provided NOTHING to the world. Okay, let’s see you fix THAT one Obama? You wanna end the war, fine. But how are you going to convince this terrorist supporter that the other 155 years of our existence (apparently, he only knows of 160 years of US existence but you think there are 57 states so you can’t exactly mock him) where a benefit to him or the planet??? Hmmm??? And then maybe you libs can admit that we are unpopular not because of our foreign policy but because of ‘journalists’ in foreign countries who envy us BIG TIME!!! You can’t fix envy with appeasement.
It sounds like these people are our enemies. Shouldn’t we be adding them to the targeting schedule?
ROFL. The first few sentences are so obviously written by a psychotic that I have no need to read further.