Well here's one I'm certain I should steer clear of, but I'm not that smart. So speaking as a member of list #2, a Canadian. A country that, with 1/10th of your wealth and population has taken on one of the larger roles in Afghanistan since the beginning, your largest trading partner, your largest supplier of almost all your natural resources, including energy. I find your letter a little disturbing. Like all great lies and mistakes it is chock full of absolute facts presented in a very convincing way to prove a completely wrong and dangerous point. First of all your country can not live in isolation. If you want to have any control over what's happening in the world you can not lock yourselves up behind your borders and ignore the rest of the wold, George is doing enough of that already. The fact that most of the worlds countries did not and does not understand going into Iraq and stirring up a hornets nest doesn't make them wrong, They're sovereign states remember, they don't have to agree with you. Stop feeling sorry for yourselves, you're the richest country on the planet.
Have you ever seen the Global Village numbers? It goes like this.
If you could fit the entire population of the world into a village consisting of 100 people, maintaining the proportions of all the people living on earth, that village would consist of
57 Asians - 21 Europeans - 14 Americans (North, Central and South) - 8 Africans
There would be: 52 Women, 48 Men, 30 Caucasians, and 70 non-Caucasians, 30 Christians and 70 non-Christians 89 heterosexuals and 11 homosexuals.
6 people would possess 59% of the wealth and they would all come from the USA, 80 would live in poverty, 70 would be illiterate, 50 would suffer from hunger and malnutrition, 1 would be dying and 1 would be being born, 1 would own a compute and only 1 would have a university degree!
You guys really don't have it that bad, where's the Christianity I keep hearing about?
If you have a full fridge, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep, you are wealthier that 75% of the worlds population.
If you currently have money in the bank and in your wallet, you are one of 8 people in 100 in the world.
So: work like you don't need the money, love like nobody has ever hurt you, Dance like nobody is watching, Sing like nobody is listening and Live as if this was paradise on Earth!
Wars, hatred, indifference is not what we need to promote and it won't make America a better place to live.
Let the hate mail begin.