Colin Powell on US diplomacy

[MonsterMark]

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Wednesday the United States is "not doing bad at all" diplomatically, despite anti-American sentiment over the war in Iraq. "If you stand back a bit," Powell told an audience at the University at Buffalo, "you might see we have done very well in most parts of the world."

 

[FreeFaller]

I know this! We're doing great things every day all over the world.

Especially in Iraq and Afganistan...where all the average American can focus on is the tragic deaths and not on our everyday sucesses.

 

[Vitas]

Just one thing...

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[TheDude]

I know this! We're doing great things every day all over the world.

Especially in Iraq and Afganistan...where all the average American can focus on is the tragic deaths and not on our everyday sucesses.

My advice, watch the BBC and other foriegn news agencies and read their written media. Get more than one point of view before you decide.

You say not to focus on is the tragic deaths but on everyday sucesses. Tell that to the thousands upon thousands of regular Iraqis just trying to make a living who have lost loved ones, especially the ones that have lost children. Not to mention the Americans who haev lost family members.

 

[MonsterMark]

Tell that to the thousands upon thousands of regular Iraqis just trying to make a living who have lost loved ones, especially the ones that have lost children.

How about the hundreds upon hundreds of thousands that now have lives to live? Maybe you should study up on Saddam and his torture rooms, the Baath party, etc.

BBC? Nothing more than a CNN here. Propaganda network to spew forth hate.

 

[FreeFaller]

My Advice...spend 1 1/2 years of your life IN Iraq and Afganistan. Hold a dying man in your arms whose only crime was a desire to free his country from the grip of fanatasism. Spend 10 years of your life defending this country from the madmen who would seek to destroy everything we hold dear. Help people who have been abandoned by the despots who claim to have their best interests in mind. When you've done that...we'll talk.

My friends died for a reason...you may not think so...the BBC may not think so. But I do.

 

[pepperman]

My Advice...spend 1 1/2 years of your life IN Iraq and Afganistan. Hold a dying man in your arms whose only crime was a desire to free his country from the grip of fanatasism. Spend 10 years of your life defending this country from the madmen who would seek to destroy everything we hold dear. Help people who have been abandoned by the despots who claim to have their best interests in mind. When you've done that...we'll talk.

My friends died for a reason...you may not think so...the BBC may not think so. But I do.

Very well said Steve, very well said!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

 

[Calabrio]

someone recommended watching terribly biased, socialist, European news inorder to get an idea how we are perceived around the world?

Why don't I just do some polling at UC Berkley to get an idea how the American public feels too.

 

[raVeneyes]

My friends died for a reason...you may not think so...the BBC may not think so. But I do.

No one...not the BBC...not american media...not the most liberal of the liberal...think that american soldiers and 'freedom fighters' from what ever country we go to in order to assert our dominance died for nothing.

We all just differ over what the purpose they were sent there for is.

From your perspective you and your friends may have been trying to do one thing, but the reality of the situation is many good men and women are being taken advantage of and played as pawns, not by the media and the liberals who argue that they need to come home before another one dies, but by the men ordering them in to harms way without care nor reason nor legitimate mandate.

 

[barry2952]

I wish I had said that!

 

[FreeFaller]

From your perspective you and your friends may have been trying to do one thing, but the reality of the situation is many good men and women are being taken advantage of and played as pawns, not by the media and the liberals who argue that they need to come home before another one dies, but by the men ordering them in to harms way without care nor reason nor legitimate mandate.

I'd like to remind you that the military is 100% volunteer. To imply that we joined without knowing what this career entailed is ludicrous. True there are a few that didn't realize that when they joined the Armed Forces they were going to be shot at...I'll leave that one alone.

Basically what you're saying is that us gun-toting bullet stoppers are too stupid to realize that we are being "played" by our own government. Thanks for the typical liberal "support" jerk. Yes we are all moronic pawns with little independent thought who willingly throw ourselves into harms way in order to line the pockets of rich "fat cats". But you libbies are here to save us from the horrible position in which we've been forced.

Listen here...I've been fighting wars since I was 18 years old. Sometimes I've liked the reasons and sometimes I have not. But every time...every time I have been proud of what I have done. I knew that the USA was the good guy and what we were doing was important...not only for my country but for the betterment of humanity. I have never been ashamed or been anybody's "pawn" as you would put it. MY brothers in arms and I willingly and faithfully place ourselves in harms way for reasons you apparently cannot possibly even fathom.

 

[MonsterMark]

I wish I had said that!