Reply #24: In Iran, many do hate us for supporting the brutal dictator there... [View All]

[Solon]

not all, the younger generations, that never lived under the Shah, are ambivelent, at best, towards us, then again, because of Bush, the government of Iran is becoming more hardline, it was moderating for years, and now any positive attitude that the younger generations had, I would imagine, disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

As far as the rest of the Middle East, it gets even more complicated, for example, we didn't win any brownie points in funding and arming both sides in the Iran/Iraq war. Nor did we win brownie points in the Persian Gulf war, we told Saddam "Hey, go ahead and invade(for slant drilling)" and then we fought against him for doing what we wanted. We fucked up, plain and simple, in damned near EVERY NATION that we were trying to repair diplomatic relations with, Iran, North Korea, etc. all that has been shredded by Bush.

The rallying cry in most nations that oppose us isn't that we destroyed whatever democracies they had, rather they just want to be LEFT ALONE. We stick our nose where it doesn't belong, and quite a few times, we get stung. There is just as much of an Anti-US attitude in Latin America, as an example, yet we always have the gall to ask why they feel this way.