With Apologies to My American Friends
Jan. 29th, 2008 03:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladymirthFound on a post on LnCMBs:
Since the United States is the world's only real superpower, whose military arsenal is many times greater than the rest of the world's put together, the President of the United States becomes, in some ways, the President of the whole world. The General Secretary of the United Nations is nothing in comparison with the President of the United States.
So when the people of the United States elect their President, the rest of the world gets that President too, only we didn't get the chance to vote for him (or her?). - TOC
Um, what?
The President of the United States becomes the President of the whole world? The General Secretary of the United Nations is nothing compared to the President of the United States?
What drivel. The U.S has always had a tremendous cultural and economic impact on the world, but this is nonsense. It's the sort of self-congratulatory, hyperbolic egocentricsm that led the Bush Administration to believe that they could ride rough-shod over the U.N if they so pleased and invade Iraq without any sort of international backlash.
As far as I know, Clinton was all talk and little action during his term, but Bush was a rank idiot who made his entire country into a laughing stock, and his administration is a by-word in terms of corruption and isolationism for the internationational public at large, whatever the sentiments of his own electorate. As a citizen of a country who has also been electing equally rank idiots for quite some time now, I sympathise with the people who never wanted another Bush in the White House after the Gulf War. I am rather satisfied with the President we have now, and I can only hope that the U.S also elects a President better qualified to represent its best interests and repair its image.
But if the American President is indeed the single most influential person in the world, and if history does indeed repeat itself, it should mean either or both of the following:
a) there is a serious flaw in world politics that means the United Nations has failed worse than it's predecessor The League of Nations, and should be dissolved immediately in favour of a better balanced system.
b)We're looking at World War III on the horizon.
The day I accept this sort of colonial mindset wherein I'm supposed to let someone who represents less than 300 million people out of six billion, and who I never had the choice to vote for in the first place, declare his prominence over the leaders of 185 other countries, is when I personally vote to re-elect our stooge ex-Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe as President. As in, never.
Btw, the world's most efficient military belongs to Switzerland, the world's most populous country and fastest-growing economy is China, the most technologically advanced is Japan, the one that enjoys the best standard of living is Iceland, and the richest in terms of per capita is probably Saudi Arabia (must check). The country which has contributes the most manpower to the International Peace Corps is Canada.
Just saying, is all.
P.S: I trust the Americans on my flist will not be offended by this particular rant, unless they are gunning for world domination. Which I doubt. ;-)
ETA:elluxioninforms me that India has narrowly beaten China as the current fastest-growing economy.
Since the United States is the world's only real superpower, whose military arsenal is many times greater than the rest of the world's put together, the President of the United States becomes, in some ways, the President of the whole world. The General Secretary of the United Nations is nothing in comparison with the President of the United States.
So when the people of the United States elect their President, the rest of the world gets that President too, only we didn't get the chance to vote for him (or her?). - TOC
Um, what?
The President of the United States becomes the President of the whole world? The General Secretary of the United Nations is nothing compared to the President of the United States?
What drivel. The U.S has always had a tremendous cultural and economic impact on the world, but this is nonsense. It's the sort of self-congratulatory, hyperbolic egocentricsm that led the Bush Administration to believe that they could ride rough-shod over the U.N if they so pleased and invade Iraq without any sort of international backlash.
As far as I know, Clinton was all talk and little action during his term, but Bush was a rank idiot who made his entire country into a laughing stock, and his administration is a by-word in terms of corruption and isolationism for the internationational public at large, whatever the sentiments of his own electorate. As a citizen of a country who has also been electing equally rank idiots for quite some time now, I sympathise with the people who never wanted another Bush in the White House after the Gulf War. I am rather satisfied with the President we have now, and I can only hope that the U.S also elects a President better qualified to represent its best interests and repair its image.
But if the American President is indeed the single most influential person in the world, and if history does indeed repeat itself, it should mean either or both of the following:
a) there is a serious flaw in world politics that means the United Nations has failed worse than it's predecessor The League of Nations, and should be dissolved immediately in favour of a better balanced system.
b)We're looking at World War III on the horizon.
The day I accept this sort of colonial mindset wherein I'm supposed to let someone who represents less than 300 million people out of six billion, and who I never had the choice to vote for in the first place, declare his prominence over the leaders of 185 other countries, is when I personally vote to re-elect our stooge ex-Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe as President. As in, never.
Btw, the world's most efficient military belongs to Switzerland, the world's most populous country and fastest-growing economy is China, the most technologically advanced is Japan, the one that enjoys the best standard of living is Iceland, and the richest in terms of per capita is probably Saudi Arabia (must check). The country which has contributes the most manpower to the International Peace Corps is Canada.
Just saying, is all.
P.S: I trust the Americans on my flist will not be offended by this particular rant, unless they are gunning for world domination. Which I doubt. ;-)
ETA:
elluxioninforms me that India has narrowly beaten China as the current fastest-growing economy. 
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Date: 2008-01-30 02:29 am (UTC)There are idiots in this world and they're here for one purpose: to act like idiots and provide entertainment for us folks who are not idiots and thereby allow us to exercise the right to point and laugh at them for their ignorance.
my grammar fails, btw. and you are so educated, it's painful. *smile*(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-30 03:49 am (UTC)There are idiots in this world and they're here for one purpose: to act like idiots and provide entertainment for us folks who are not idiots and thereby allow us to exercise the right to point and laugh at them for their ignorance.
In a word = WANKERY. The life-blood of politics and the meta-fandom.
Moi? Educated? Not at all. I simply spout off random facts in the hope that they turn out to be true and I shall look more knowledgeable than I actually am. *g*
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Date: 2008-01-30 06:31 am (UTC)i'm a SLan. what irritated me the most was the fact that he had the audacity to say that we should try peace talks with a terrorist group and treat them like equals! WTF?! and this was when he was aimlessly throwing heavy arsenal at Iraq hoping it would hit something halfway relevant, mind you.
it will be a sad day for the entire world indeed when people start believing that bunglers like Bush are actually qualified to run the world.
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Date: 2008-01-30 09:40 am (UTC)I tell you, the Sri Lankans were the first people ever to be clued into exactly what kind of big fat fraud he really is.
Can I know who you are mousie? I'd like to give you a very big cheese. Are you on my friends list?
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Date: 2008-01-30 02:57 pm (UTC)Between 75 and 105 - Generally cannot complete a college prep course in high school.
I'd say, sometimes words speak for themselves.
(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-30 06:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-30 07:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-30 06:36 pm (UTC)*hugs you*
Remember what I said about the weekend. I.shall.drag.your.arse.