Einherjar wrote:
An impression that the US holds the international comunity in contempt, and or considers itself the proper arbiter of international affairs.
I can't speak for all Americans. I know that
I hold them in total contempt and for good reason. What has the "international community" done for the long suffering people of Iraq, North Korea, Darfur, Rwanda, "Zimbabwe", Cuba, or any of those kinds of places in the last 50 years? I mean, other than rape and pillage with UN uniforms on?
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US opposition to international courts, and the insistance that US citizens not be subject to this courts rulings is one of many thing which reinforces this perception.
You're no doubt talking about the so-called "Hague Invasion Act"...
http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/08/aspa080302.htm
My advice to the Dutch: Don't go on guessing; try kidnapping an American soldier and putting him on trial for something, and see if it's real. The only thing I could think of more fun to watch than that would be for Russian special forces (spetznaz) to rescue Slobodan MIlosevic. That I'd pay a hundred dollars to watch, 200 if they could shoot the Hague to pieces in the process.
Milosevic, for those with short memories, is an innocent man being tried by a so-called International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague, Holland, presumably for attempting to deport (or ethnically cleanse) albanian islammists from a Serbian province for barbaric conduct over a protracted period of time:
http://www.srpska-mreza.com/ddj/Kosovo/articles/Binder87NYT.htm
One assumes that the Dutch are practicing to try themselves for ethnic cleansing and genocide, since they themselves are now beginning to expell muslims from their own country:
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2004/2/17502340-DA4E-4379-9982-AED6C77B315D.html
also for barbaric conduct over a protracted period of time:
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/cgi-bin/showarticle.pl?articleID=1111&terms=
I mean, why not simply change the name of Holland to Hypocrisia or something like that?
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More recently the Iraq war has also caused US standing in europe to slip.
If that's true than Europeans truly are idiots since it's primarily their asses which have been saved. I'm talking about the three-way thing between Iraq, Libya, and North Korea which Muammar Khadaffi recently gave up on under intense American pressure, which would have ended up with nuclear-tipped IRBMs pointed at Europe. I mean, even if they ultimately meant to develop missiles to hit New York with, they'd have had to PRACTICE at shorter distances the same way you sight rifles in at progressively longer ranges and, in this instance, "shorter distances" translates into "Europe".
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The charge here, wholly appart from the issue of the war itself, is that the US failed to abide by due process in rushing the war without allowing inspections to run their course.
Right. While Europeans sit on their fat asses and watch, an American army is sitting there in the desert heat waiting for orders to commence an operation before it gets up to 120 degrees F and no operations are possible and we're supposed to give Hans Schlixx another six months to **** around and Saddam Hussein another six months to move every sort of illicit **** to Syria...
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Oh, and disliking americans is also trendy in some parts of europe, kind of like american animosity for the french.
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The French?
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/research_topics/world_war_2_photos/images/ww2_81.jpg
I'll tell you what I think is actually behind much of the European animosity towards America. For starters, the United States is less than 250 years old and yet, in that span, we've had to come over and rescue Europe from Barbary pirates, from one lunatic war caused by out of control nationalism and arms races, from naziism, fascism, communism, and now islammofascism and, in that same time, Europeans haven't had to come over here to rescue us from Christianity, democracy, or free-market capitalism once.
And so there's a perception that something is out of balance somehow or other. I mean, that's aside from our taking Europe's entire runoff population over most of that 250 year period and the perception that the descendants of those people who europeans viewed as losers are doing better in life than Europeans are doing now.
And then you've got the thing about Israel and Islam. You only have to look at a map to see how ludicrous that one is. You have this gigantic swath of territory from the wall of China to the west coast of Africa and tens of degrees of lattitude up and down called the Islammic world and then a tiny sliver of land called Israel which you have to know precisely where to look for on the map to find, and muslims have been doing an unrelenting crybaby act over that tiny sliver for the last 60 years, as if there were nowhere else for any unhappy hard-core muslims in the tiny sliver to go.
Europe, meanwhile, having invited muslims in as servants without bothering to Christianize or otherwise civilize them in the process and having forgotten how to have children during the same stretch of time, is now faced with the very real prospect of Europe being under sharia law 30 years from now and is apparently getting ready for that day by renewing its committment to antisemitism.
I mean, what is there not to hold in contempt?
(Rushes out to buy a "Support Our Troops" ribbon bumper sticker) 
