"Why do they hate us so much?" - isometry.com

I've recently found a new post about America's "deeds" in the world.

Please visit http://www.isometry.com/usahate.html and educate yourself.

"Massive war crimes in Vietnam war: The mass murder of well over 1 million (some say about 3 million) innocent Vietnamese civilians during the Vietnam war was an act of mass state terrorism. (The USA also used chemical weapons such as dioxins in this aggressive war.) The USA should have been forced to pay hundreds of billions of dollars of reparations for their war crimes. But instead, the USA imposed horrendous trade sanctions on Vietnam which led to mass starvation for many years. At the same time, the USA forced the Vietnamese to put a humiliating amount of effort into finding decades-old corpses of American war criminals. Hundreds of thousands of innocent civilian Vietnamese died without their bodies being recovered. But US citizens are capable of feeling no sympathy for any people other than their own. They think that one American is worth a thousand foreigners. There are many people in the USA even now who are proud of their participation in the mass murder and war crimes in Vietnam."

"Causing the `Asian meltdown' through oppressive loan conditions: Enforcement of completely inappropriate and humiliating conditions on Thailand through the IMF, which is controlled by the USA. In the Asian crisis of about 1997, the currency of Thailand collapsed, due to the sudden withdrawal of huge amounts of capital, mostly by the USA. As a result, there was massive unemployment, thousands of people committed suicide, and the misery continues to this day. The IMF forced Thailand to carry out even more inappropriate measures after the crisis, whereas Malaysia refused the IMF commands. Malaysia's economy improved quickly but Thailand's did not. The economies of Vietnam and China hardly noticed the Asian meltdown, because they did not follow the IMF commands."

"Attempted invasion of Cuba: Unsuccessful invasion of Cuba (1961) to install pro-US-capitalist government. Large numbers of people pointlessly killed for ideological/economic reasons, with no apology. In 2002, the US government still hates Cuba more than any country. The USA takes a very, very long time to forgive countries which successfully resist (and thereby humiliate) the US Empire. (Others include Iran and Vietnam.) The USA is a poor loser."

"USA is protectionist - but everybody else must accept free trade: In March 2002, the USA put up to 30% tariffs on steel imports to protect the inefficient US steel industry and get votes for the next election. The USA's propagandists have been on the airwaves explaining why this is a good thing. Unfortunately, the arguments they have used in favour of US protectionism, if true, are even more true for the poor countries of the world. If a rich country like the USA needs to protect its industries, then surely the poor countries have even more need. This is just typical of the USA's approach to politics - first work out what's in the USA's self-interest, then muster the arguments to support the decision. But if the same arguments are used to defend the actions of any other country, they are rejected. Somehow free trade is supposed to be good for every country in the world, but protectionism of the farm sector, the steel sector etc., is good for the USA. People in the USA just can't remember the arguments they used last month for last month's policies. The right argument for the USA is always the argument which benefits the USA this month. Protecting the workers is a good thing when the USA wants to increase the cost of production in poor countries to reduce their competitiveness, but protecting the workers is a bad thing when US companies want to exploit workers. A good example of US American protectionism is the exclusion of catfish imports from Vietnam. The USA just can't compete. So they call efficient production dumping or unfair trade. But that just means that the USA can't compete on a level playing field."

"Gulf of Tonkin incident: In 1964, the US government administration lied about the North Vietnamese attacking US ships in the Gulf of Tonkin and used this as a pretext for a massive escalation of aggression against North Vietnam. The US government's respect for truth is similar to Hitler's respect for truth when he invaded Poland because of the alleged mistreatment of Germans by the Poles."

" For a day or two after the 9-11 suicide hijacks, the whole world felt a huge sympathy for the USA. For once we saw the USA weak and vulnerable. When the USA was strutting the world stage as the selfish international bully, no one could feel affection for them. Seeing the USA weak for once made it possible to feel compassion and sympathy.

But the USA squandered the sympathy it deserved and received on 2001-9-11. If the US had been more gentle and understanding, the sympathy would have continued. But instead, the USA turned into a super-bully, much more selfish and bloodthirsty than ever before. And this is why the USA is without friends now. The USA has cashed in its international goodwill chips. There will be no chips left when the USA needs friends again some day.

The only real friend they have now is the illegitimate Australian government, which won the national election shortly after 9-11 on the basis of fear and loathing for foreigners. The Australian government needs to keep the pattern of war going so as to make them look important, and so that they can suppress dissent within Australia. I don't know why the UK government is so keen to please the USA. We know that behind the scenes, the English-speaking christian countries are very well integrated militarily. I can only assume that both the UK, US and Australia can see that Israel is endangered right now. But the Australian government tried very hard to keep the Vietnam war going when the USA wanted to stop, because it was needed domestically within Australia. The Australian government is showing the same back-seat driver enthusiasm again now. (The majority of Australians and British are opposed to the invasion of Iraq.)"

" 2005-5-4: The current kill ratio by US soldiers in Iraq is about 100:1. They've killed about 120,000 since 2003 against only 1200 of their own killed. This is even more impressive than their kill ratio of 50:1 in Vietnam where they killed 3 million innocent people for only about 50,000 lost. This may be compared with the Israeli kill ratio of only about 4:1 against the Palestinians in the last 5 years. The USA is probably the most effective killer in history. It isn't cheap though. It costs the USA more than a million dollars to kill each Iraqi. If they had to pay fair compensation for their murders, it would cost even more than that."

These quotes were recorded from the site I've mentioned above that is only related to Viet Nam, however there are plenty of other interesting insight of America's suffering towards the world mention within that website. I respect the knowledge from the website because I did not find a paragraph that I have disagreed with. I hope this will bring knowledge to others who seek.

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