[Descenterace]

"You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands." -Morpheus

I thought the same thing.

It's all coming true...

[aldo_14]

And by the way, the pure hatred of the U.S. by so many misguided forumites i've seen in this forum is sickening. I can see why some people might be in disagreement with us on quite a few issues, but i'm not seeing mere annoyance on these boards, i'm seeing actual hatred, and it makes me what to vomit.

I wouldn't say I myself hate the US (or more specifically the US government and it's ensuing foreign policies towards security via global domination), but I am scared of them.  It's not very nice when a big country is persuing technology to - in effect - annihilate any smaller country. 

Not sure I've seen anything in this thread that would constitute 'hatred' anyways, more semi-satirical expression of the preceding sentence.

[Flipside]

Beside the fact that it seems perfectly ok for someone to express their desire for the UN to be disbanded, which would throw most of the countries into massive economic depression causing suffering and poverty onto, quite literally, millions of people. But damn that Anti-Americanism eh?

[Prophet]

I wouldn't say I myself hate the US (or more specifically the US government and it's ensuing foreign policies towards security via global domination), but I am scared of them.  It's not very nice when a big country is persuing technology to - in effect - annihilate any smaller country. 

Not sure I've seen anything in this thread that would constitute 'hatred' anyways, more semi-satirical expression of the preceding sentence.

I'd say that this is true to most people around the world. I mean, it is no wonder. When non-american hears about the US of A it's in the news. And that is allways about what country they have invaded, or are "negotiating" to make the country be nicer towards them, or about the US goverment doing other ridiculous (scary) things. Or then its one of those hollywood movies where the yanks/a yank saves the world, or where US quite simply is the most best country in the world and should rule everyone.
These are the images that the media bradcasts around the clock to the world. And every american who belives in that crap (like Bush) deserve to be hated. As for the others (majority of US citizens, as I understand), I have nothing against them...

It's not like there isn't other rotten goverments out there. But US just has the habit of having its hands in everything everywhere. Thus getting to be the topic of many discussions...

[CP5670]

It's simpler than that. This forum just has a lot of anti-Americans around (not necessarily liberals, just anti-Americans), which is standard fare on any internet forum, but unfortunately on HLP there aren't enough equally pro-American guys to balance things out; the few that are here rarely post or come off looking like morons. It might just be due to the fact that there aren't that many people registered here in the first place, which tends to skew the statistics. The situation is different on the other forums I go to, where you have a nice variety of opinions and lots of ensuing fights.

[Scuddie]

Oh boy...  Perhaps making an absurdly inflamatory sarcastic remark was not such a good idea...

I'm indeed Pro-American, and I support what the US government is trying to do, but I detest the way it is being done.  I think most people fall under this category, and rightly so.  There are people that hate upon the US for no other reason than their disagreements with UN policy, and likewise people hate the UN for disagreements with US policy.  This favoritism is valid; illogical and sometimes stupid, but valid.  During the days of the communist bloc, we were the "bad guys" to them, and they to us.  Most of the rest of the world didn't care.  It's all relative to a person's point of reference.

As for the US government and UN as of now, there is more than enough reason to dislike either/or.  No, I don't believe the UN should really be disbanded (that was an obvious exageration), I believe it needs reform more than anything else.  Same goes for the US.  There is corruption in both parties, and there is stubbornness in both parties, and I don't see either one going away any time soon.  But when they do, and only when they do, the US and UN can be on the same page, if not the same book.

EDIT:  Or maybe I'm thinking of the EU...

[IceFire]

As long as we get actually beams and not some "high powered invisible light" **** I'll be happy.

Actually that may not be good.  It'll create a new kind of collateral damage...if you can see a laser that powerful than you can blind anyone who looks at the beam.  So you'll see headlines "Laser strike on terrorist holdout, thousands blind."

Not a perfect weapon. But for use on a 747 shooting down missiles...now thats cool!

[Ford Prefect]

I'm not anti-American; I'm anti-patriotism.

Oh, and nuke the gay, French, Muslim whales who are on welfare and having abortions while burning flags and rejecting Jesus.

[Scuddie]

Oh, and nuke the gay, French, Muslim whales who are on welfare and having abortions while burning flags and rejecting Jesus.

[Ace]

Well it's obvious that DARPA has realized the actual source of the voices telling Bush and Bin Laden what to do, and now they want their own