What most media fail to mention is that the adversaries of this country

[KlatooBNikto]

are mostly poor nations with just a fraction of this country's resources in arms and materiel.No single or combination of countries can pose any serious threat to this country.As W himself has said " I am tired of swatting flies".This being the case what could conceivably get the 51% of Americans so afraid of these poor people?

[Mizmoon]

1. For the same reason masters feared slaves

There are an awful lot of them, and they have nothing to lose.

[Vincardog]

2. Because W has spent 4 years scaring them. Do ya Think?

[NJCher]

3. what the media fails to mention

Is that the biggest enemy of this country is republicans, who are not even a legitimate political party anymore. They have been taken over by corporations who owe no allegiance to any country.

A political party is supposed to stand for the beliefs of a group of people. Republicans only stand to enact an agenda favorable to business, which is almost always a corporation. A corporation is not a person.

Republicans use mass psychology, media and NLP to manipulate people who are not savvy enough to pick up on what they are doing, which is, sadly, a rather large number of people in the U.S. That is not a legitimate political party. That is the thwarting of democracy for the gains of special interests.

Like the Soviet Union, we have crumbled from within.


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[RC]

6. No. It is what we, the U.S. has done to the world by virtue of

being a Super Power. Being a super power alone is not enough.
It is using that power to mettle in the internal affairs of other countries that is the problem. The killing and wars to further the private interests & profits of those in power.

[KlatooBNikto]

7. North Korea is a country that verges on starvation. It qualifies as

a poor country by any definition.South Korea is an ally and poses absolutely no threat to the U.S. South Korea is the prosperous one of the two.

[merh]

8. We are no longer the super power we were on 9/11.

Then we had the support of the international community. Foreign leaders and the people of foreign nations shared our grief and outrage. Do you recall the reports where other nations (France included) published reports that "we are all Americans now"?

But the weed that would be king trampled that support and respect. The US efforts in Afghanistan were understood and supported, but the clown-n-chief decided he wanted Iraq so he attacked, invaded and now occupies a land that has nothing to do with 9/11. If that were not bad enough, our military cannot win either campaign and the lives of our soldiers and innocent Iraqis are lost every day.

We are just as the Soviet Union was as it battled Afghanistan. We realized then that it was not the great super power and the efforts of the USSR government to win at all costs bankrupted the coffers. (Does that sound familiar?) The Soviet Union decayed from within due to its governments pompous attempts to over throw a nation. We have invaded two nations and we cannot control either (though we have put our puppets into power).

Other members of the international community do not respect us as a super power, they fear us as a rouge nation that wants to dominate the world. They see our military failings and sigh huge sighs of relief, but at the same time they continue to develop and perfect their nuclear weapons, just in case we decide to try to over throw them. Nuclear armament will continue and nations like Iran will continue to build up their weapons and military because the US is not a super power, but a bully that cannot be trusted.

Even Putin has warned * that they have nuclear weapons and that the admin better stop interfering with things in their country. In effect, * has restarted the Cold War. What a super power we are.
How is that for what your boy has accomplished in 3 short years.

[Zorra]

5. The main adversaries of America are Bu$h Voters.

John Kerry will easily solve many of the other problems after he is elected.

[GodHelpUsAll2]

9. I believe

People are too quick to believe that John Kerry will be a quick fix to the problems this country has and "easily" fix them all.

[skooooo]

10. ..not only that, but we fought 40 years of cold war..

...and managed to maintain our civil rights (or improve on them), and not drive the country into bankruptsy. Yet, when people with boxcutters threaten us, we need the Patriot act and a huge debt.

What kind of sense does that make?