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why do people from countries that don't matter all that much in the global scope of things spend all their time analyzing the US government?

I live in a small country.

The United Nations said: NO WAR
The USA and England tried to get as many European countries as possible on their side. Well some countries, I would like to use Spain as an example, did choose the pro-war side and since then the whole thing became a 'intern' European conflict...and then there was the train bombing in Spain and the rest is history.

When our government didn't support the war on terror, didn't approve shipping
of US military goods through our harbors, didn’t want to send any troops and told Bush (and Blair) that the ''evidence" they had was inaccurate and that it was immoral to start a war based on that information .....Bush and the US companies in Belgium told us to co-operate or they will take their business to another pro "war-against-terrorism" country.....well my friend THAT is plain ol' blackmail.

So the US politics affects us more than you might think, and we don't like it.

 

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I live in a small country.

The United Nations said: NO WAR
The USA and England tried to get as many European countries as possible on their side. Well some countries, I would like to use Spain as an example, did choose the pro-war side and since then the whole thing became a 'intern' European conflict...and then there was the train bombing in Spain and the rest is history.

When our government didn't support the war on terror, didn't approve shipping
of US military goods through our harbors, didn’t want to send any troops and told Bush (and Blair) that the ''evidence" they had was inaccurate and that it was immoral to start a war based on that information .....Bush and the US companies in Belgium told us to co-operate or they will take their business to another pro "war-against-terrorism" country.....well my friend THAT is plain ol' blackmail.

So the US politics affects us more than you might think, and we don't like it.

I'd say based on history, Belgium has a FAR more dismal record of overseas expansion than the US has.

Seems to me like Belgium should tell the US to 'get stuffed, ' cast themselves free of the US $$$ yoke and set out to do things completely on their own. That way you won't be beholden to anyone but yourselves.

 

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Seems to me like Belgium should tell the US to 'get stuffed, ' cast themselves free of the US $$$ yoke and set out to do things completely on their own. That way you won't be beholden to anyone but yourselves.

We need to import slaves to do that.

 

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I'd say based on history, Belgium has a FAR more dismal record of overseas expansion than the US has.

Seems to me like Belgium should tell the US to 'get stuffed, ' cast themselves free of the US $$$ yoke and set out to do things completely on their own. That way you won't be beholden to anyone but yourselves.

Yadayadayada... The thing is N8, once again we are discussing the recent past, the present and the future. So Belgian colonial history, once again, is not relevant to this discussion.

Oh, and telling the US to get stuffed etc. goes down so well that Belgium would most likely suffer a CIA backed coup, or an outright invasion.

 

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" In the south, the Rocky Mountains and the plains lie the Republican base"

The whole middle of the country..heh! The heartland and all that... Not that it matters, just an observation.

In the words of the great Wanda Sykes "Don't nobody live there, just a bunch of rocks and some guy named Hank"

 

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Yadayadayada... The thing is N8, once again we are discussing the recent past, the present and the future. So Belgian colonial history, once again, is not relevant to this discussion.

Oh, and telling the US to get stuffed etc. goes down so well that Belgium would most likely suffer a CIA backed coup, or an outright invasion.

Hehe I'm glad he didn't say : "shut up eurotrash, you better keep out of this....we saved your ass in 1945.....without the USA you would speak German now and you would have a stiff right arm"

Yes I know what happened in the past, we can't change it, but we can learn from it.
I just answered the question why non-americans are so interested in the foreign politics of the US and that's about it, we aren't USA-wannabees and we don't try to boycot Bush because we can't stand the fact that the US is a super power or whatever....we just can't stand the fact that Bush can do what he does and that he keeps making mistakes over and over again and doesn't learn from his mistakes. And last but not least why so many people keep supporting him ?

I just hope that Bush and Co don't invade Belgium because we have WMD's
......from the USArmy...and the CIA IS watching us.....oh well.