Canadian Energy Policy
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The picture could improve if Americans (not only Americans, but in particular) would stop considering it their god-given right to wretched excess.
It has a lot to do with arrogance too....
Even with countries that a very similiar in the way of life when compared to Americans like Canada, you still get this smugness.
You could be living almost identical lives, yet for reasons beyond anyone's control and have no significant bearing on their everyday lives, the American is better...
Its this attitude that breeds the Bush's of the world and its this attitude that gives them a mandate to persue their agenda.
Even with countries that a very similiar in the way of life when compared to Americans like Canada, you still get this smugness.
You could be living almost identical lives, yet for reasons beyond anyone's control and have no significant bearing on their everyday lives, the American is better...
Its this attitude that breeds the Bush's of the world and its this attitude that gives them a mandate to persue their agenda.
crash said:
What? Are you saying that Americans were somehow forced, by our attitude of superiority, to elect a power-hungry mentally-slow, environment-ravaging madman? I think not.
No....thats not what i said
The superiority complex comes into play when it comes time to get public support on board for a war. "We're going to show the Islamic world the way that our superior form of life and government work and they will just collapse in awe."
It also comes into play the way that americans look at war. Its a teflon attitude "Nothing can touch us. We have the mighiest army in the world, even if we did go to war we are gonna kick those arabs asses BAD".
I have heard both these comments made sometimes in a less exageratted, more intellectual way by numerous Americans leading up to the war.
Don't fool yourself either, public support at the time was very much in favor of the president leading up to the war. Especially when it started. Even if it meant defying the Germans and Frenchies. Othewise GWB would never have been able to go to war in the first place.
The superiority complex comes into play when it comes time to get public support on board for a war. "We're going to show the Islamic world the way that our superior form of life and government work and they will just collapse in awe."
It also comes into play the way that americans look at war. Its a teflon attitude "Nothing can touch us. We have the mighiest army in the world, even if we did go to war we are gonna kick those arabs asses BAD".
I have heard both these comments made sometimes in a less exageratted, more intellectual way by numerous Americans leading up to the war.
Don't fool yourself either, public support at the time was very much in favor of the president leading up to the war. Especially when it started. Even if it meant defying the Germans and Frenchies. Othewise GWB would never have been able to go to war in the first place.