This article from Guardian Unlimited, a newspaper website based in the UK, explains some reasons behind anti-US sentiments. To quote the site:
Unconstrained by any superpower rival or system of global governance, the US giant has rewritten the global financial and trading system in its own interest; ripped up a string of treaties it finds inconvenient; sent troops to every corner of the globe; bombed Afghanistan, Sudan, Yugoslavia and Iraq without troubling the United Nations; maintained a string of murderous embargos against recalcitrant regimes; and recklessly thrown its weight behind Israel's 34-year illegal military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza as the Palestinian intifada rages.
We should all look at things from all possible perspectives— or if that is impossible, from as many perspectives as can be assessed. I wonder why people are so stubborn that they'd rather see things "their way". If we all could only make some effort into understanding each other, we'd be living in a utopia.
Then again, since we aren't, what do we do then?
A point of clarification: I do not condone the violence of last Tuesday's attack. Rather, I would like everyone to see the reasons behind it. By retaliating en masse, non-surgically so to speak, you perpetuate the barbarity. You don't kill a tumor on an arm by bombarding the whole limb with radiation. No, you try to strike precisely where the tumor is. (I realize that's a weak analogy— current medical technology is neither precise nor accurate. It's more of a "we'll get it at the expense of some healthy tissue" kind of thing.)
Link courtesy of the Laughing Muse.
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