why is american education so crappy?

[MattTheSkywalker]

Sorry Matt, I see what you are saying but that's a load of shit. I don't care how rich and powerful your country is, if you cut off all ties and go it alone as Bush is in danger of doing, you will not be the same for long. Get enough other nations who say 'fuck me?, fuck you!' and America will not be the economic and military power they are now.

Other nations are not irrelevant because we have many things that you need. Try closing down your borders and going it completely alone. You'd do just as well for a while I'm sure but how long do you think until it becomes a problem?

The ties that bind America and otehr natons are ties of commerce; neither side can sever the bond to the other. it is not as if international trade with the US has stopped or even slowed down.

The notion of "going it alone" is the North Korean ideal (Juche) - it is not by any means what the US is doing. even France and Germany are still very much involved in commerce with the US.

American can't ignore the world economically anymore than the world can ignore us. The idea of "going it alone", while a headline grabber, does not accurately reflect what is happening at all.

In my example, the Chairman acts, everyone bitches, but they all still go along because the Chairman is the key player. In this example, Bush acts, and everyone goes along, evedn if they bitch first. Sometimes a leader has to be willing to act even if it pisses people off, and i applaud Bush for having the conviction to do so.

Most of his critics in the media are journalists who have never been in charge of more than a typewriter; we should not forget this.

George's screw everybody else attitude is dangerous and damaging in more ways than one. He is alienating many nations that had close ties to the US previously and he is also creating the very thing he claims to be trying to abolish every day. I don't like it on a personal level, I don't like it because I have family and friends that live there and I don't like it because it affects my country as we are closely aligned in proximity etc.

Everybody that thinks they don't need anybody else gets fucked eventually, I'd hate to see that happen.

I addressed all of this above, I think. Much of the bitching you hear from other nations is for political reasons and pandering to their own populations.