I promise I'll try not to steal from other web logs too much, but this goes under the catagory of "couldn't have said it better myself." I have a link to the Tom Tomorrow's weblog This Modern World on the right, but just in case anybody missed this:
Tom Tomorrow starts out with this quote from David Brooks (who was a supporter of the war)
We went into Iraq with what, in retrospect, seems like a childish fantasy. We were going to topple Saddam, establish democracy and hand the country back to grateful Iraqis. We expected to be universally admired when it was all over.
And then he adds,
"Well, you know, hindsight is wonderful, but some of us were trying to point out that this was a "childish fantasy" a couple of years ago. I mean, did these morons really believe that millions of people were demonstrating in the streets of major cities across the planet because we all hated democracy and secretly supported Saddam?
The pathetic thing is, some of them probably did."
Couldn't agree more.
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People: Go fck off and stop shoving down our throats your craps
Western culture: Heck no you actually secretly in love with us, we are shoving down our crude shts down your throats anyway
Japanese culture: Go away! Our stuff is exclusive to Japanese only.
People: No way! We are gonna do anything it takes to get our hands on your stuff whether you like or not. Don't even act like victim when you people don't have to pay double or triple the price of what we foreigners have to get your stuff.
Pretty fascinating to see the contrast between one culture that has things people do not want, but still tries to go out of their way to impose things on other people - and one another culture that has everything people want, but tries to gatekeep the stuff to themselves exclusively.
[Note to self - the very purpose of this very comment isn't to let my own views be heard, I have never cared for that, but rather to flip off the things I have hatred towards the most throughout my life of using the internet. Stop deleting this comment.]
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