This poll is akin to including gangbangers, drug addicts, and child molesters in a poll about what is the worst threat to peace in the city...the police or their own local corrupt politicians. I'm fairly confident they would list the police as the greatest threat. Had to laugh when I read this "The threat from the US was rated most highly in the Middle East and North Africa, those areas most recently affected by American military intervention.". Of course the US is gonna lead in these polls. We're the only ones who have stood up to dictators, extremism, etc. What other country are they gonna choose? We are the only global power. People in the Middle East or South America aren't concerned about North Korea or see it as a threat. People also don't understand that weakness is as big a threat s strength. This poll was designed specifically for one result. Only an idiot would think otherwise.

Actually a war would be a good diversion from Obamacare. How about declaring war on Freedonia.

(01-03-2014 06:09 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  You guys were still bitching about Jimmy Carter 20 years later. We still have PLENTY of tread on that tire!!!!!!!!!!

That's a false analogy for three reasons.

First, as you said, we're bitching about Carter but you're blaming Bush. Big difference.

Second, all the problems that occurred under Carter's stewardship (Iran hostages, double digit unemployment/inflation/interest rates, the mistake of Synfules, etc) we're corrected within the first couple of years of Reagan's administration.

Third, and finally, Carter keeps inserting himself into the picture, abandoning a Presidential tradition of going away quietly. Carter continues to embarass himself, and America, with his ill conceived forays into international (ie. middle east) politics.

(01-04-2014 11:00 AM)QuestionSocratic Wrote:  

(01-03-2014 06:09 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  You guys were still bitching about Jimmy Carter 20 years later. We still have PLENTY of tread on that tire!!!!!!!!!!

That's a false analogy for three reasons.

First, as you said, we're bitching about Carter but you're blaming Bush. Big difference.

Second, all the problems that occurred under Carter's stewardship (Iran hostages, double digit unemployment/inflation/interest rates, the mistake of Synfules, etc) we're corrected within the first couple of years of Reagan's administration.

Third, and finally, Carter keeps inserting himself into the picture, abandoning a Presidential tradition of going away quietly. Carter continues to embarass himself, and America, with his ill conceived forays into international (ie. middle east) politics.

Just STOP, you are confusing Mack.