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Originally posted by: die-jarjar-die
perhaps it is wrong to blame America but perhaps to lay the blame at the feet of those few individuals in positions of power that feel the need to "improve" foreign countries by imposing American funded leaders (that can later handily be removed from power by afore mentioned "individuals" thus paving the way to "enforce" Democracy (surely we don't think we still live in a Democratic world??) on said nation & conveniently help themselves to the ample supplies of oil stockpiled by said nation....
Exactly. Of course, this is NOT the sole action of one country, but unfortunally America is the one who can perform such job best. I mean, we have good examples, Iran, recently Iraq, Panama, Vietnan (with no success), El Salvador, Nicaragua, Argentina, Chile, and yes, Brazil, whose 1964-1985 military dictatorship was organized, couped, manitaned, financed, trained and supported by the US, with full documents by the secret service and the CIA regarding those actions and methods (a friend of my mom was tortured and killed by north american CIA agents because she supposedly acted in a "subversive" way badmouthing the dictatorship and such, she only told me about it once and never talked about it anymore). And yet, I don't blame the country, I don't blame it's people, I don't blame our own country who obviously accepted and carried out those actions as well, I don't blame our people, I blame the system, I blame the actions. As I always say, problems don't have a guilty person, they have a cause. All I'm trying is to fight against this cause.
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
At my highschool, the ratio of iditos to non-idiots is pretty decent, actually.
You're lucky. At my highschool the ratio of idiots for non-idiots was 7 idiots for each non-idiot. I heard it increased to 1 to 20 nowadays... Of course, it depends on your definition of "idiot".