I think if the news media was interested, the American people might be. But as it is, the news doesn’t even mention this stuff. I suspect it really isn’t that we aren’t interested. I think that the LIVs don’t even know about it.
The dumbing down of America continues. We will pay a heavy price for our ignorance and disinterest.
I can say with near certainty that with the possible exception of the Kasakstan financial problem, all the other stories were presented on Fox News
If only we could convince the people who spend our tax dollars and soldiers’ lives to feel the same way.
Obama’s goal is the destruction of America.
His success in that effort helps diminish American’s concern in foreign affairs.
Our reduced involvement further diminishes our standing in the world.
Observe our support for anarchy in the mid-East and undermining allies like Israel.
I have a lot of interest in the rest of the world.
I was very concerned for instance when I revisited France and England about 10 years ago only to discover that they had both been over-run with Muslims.
But what can I do about it? I can’t even stop my own government from committing cultural suicide by stopping to flood of illegals here, what the heck am I going to do to talk sense into liberal hell holes in Europe.
The West seems to have lost he will to live. I am almost to the point of wishing the Germans had won World War 2. At least they wouldn’t have let this happen. And on a recent visit to Germany I noticed to stark difference between it and France and England, it was still clean as a whistle and full of... Germans *shock*
Not a day goes by on CSpan that someone calls in a claims that the solution to our economic problems would be solved by eliminating foreign entanglements, especially military operations.
In a way, I agree. We’re broke. In order to provide monies to foreign governments, we have to borrow it ourselves.
You are exactly correct. Americans don’t even understand or know crucial facts about their own country or what made us free and what keeps us free. We have the educational system and the media to thank for that..I know many here do not like Bill O’Reilly and he often provokes me but last night he explained a big part of the problem..Take a look.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/3218282898001/why-many-americans-know-little-about-their-country-/#sp=show-clips
For decades, we have been the world’s defender, subsidizer and caretaker and have been ridiculed, hated, terrorized and had our citizens murdered in return for our generosity and bravery.
Americans are just tired.
What has our interest in the world’s problems gotten us?
I’d be happy if our media wasn’t desperately trying to direct our attention elsewhere while our own country burns.
There is an appropriate reassessment of the role the United States should have in world affairs. Recent intrusions into the internal affairs of foreign countries have been disastrous. Foreigners will take our money and offer to fight their local enemies but in the end bitterly resent American efforts that “teach them how to live” or order their culture. They view it as the worst form of cultural imperialism. The United States is resented and American security is lessened. Ronald Reagan had an image of America being this moral, just, prosperous city on the hill for others to admire and mimic. That may be the way to go. Let others mimic us, but never have America intrude or impose. Foreign entanglements should only be initiated if and only if the actual security or real interests of the United States are at stake. Of course liberals and socialists will argue that the world is “one” and international intrusions and a diminution of American nationalism is a good and necessary thing. Yet one only has to reflect on the spectacle of that jet lagged gasbag narcissist Kerry pontificating around the globe, accomplishing nothing and making new enemies daily.
All true.
[95-98% summary of the news we hear, sung to one of his catchiest tunes]
I was siting home alone one night
In LA, watching old Cronkite
On the seven o’clock news.
It seems there was an earthquake that
Left nothing but a Panama hat
And a pair of old Greek shoes.
Didn’t seem like much was happening
So I turned it off and went and got another beer.
Seems like every time you turn around
There’s another hard-luck story that you’re gonna hear.
And there’s really nothing anyone can say.
And I never did plan to go anyway
To Black Diamond Bay.
Dylan