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Analysis: US reliability questioned overseas
Associated Press
Published: 05.10.13, 20:54
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1. Conspiracy theory - anyone?
Barbara ,   Haifa Israel   (10.05.13)
Anyone with ideas or guesses how and why this is all happening? Why decisions are made and then cancelled? Why Egypt was betrayed? Why U.S. now under extreme political and economic bankruptcy? Nu, let's see your ideas.
2. #1
N ,   N   (10.05.13)
According to a study (Watson Institute, March 2013), the Iraq war did cost the U.S. more than $2 trillion, and the cost could grow to $6 trillion. And it is very likely that the sub-prime mortgage crisis wouldn't have occurred without the Iraq war as the sky-rocking debt due to the war eroded the faith in American solvency. Therefore the Iraq war almost broke the US (and if the US would be broken, Canada, Europe, Israel,... would be too). Those who lingered the US into that war sabotaged the US and the West.
3. Too freaking bad
Suzy ,   NYC   (10.05.13)
Last time I checked non of those countries are funding the US Defense department and serving in US military. We are done being suckers. The gulf rulers can go fly a kite. We told them to democratize their countries and respect human rights but they rather be overthrown one day instead. We have our own problems and we are not the world's policemen.
4. 1 Barbara
CJK   (10.05.13)
all he cares about is himself. he wants to impose his will on everyone. he is a very dangerous individual since he has enormous power that no one checks, including the press which is abdicating its responsibility to inform the public. rather, they shield him and stroke his ego.
5. All empires collapse
Etienne Prinsloo ,   Nova Scotia Canada   (10.06.13)
South Korea has invested heavily in it's military, knowing this day would come. Libya, Egypt, Syria and Iran will always stand as living (or rather burning) monuments to the collapse of the American empire. America exported all it's jobs to to China to enrich the corporate politically connected few. It squandered all it's goodwill in the ME and added monetary bankruptcy to moral bankruptcy. The liberals will deny and put a positive spin on recent events but the world has just become a much more dangerous place.
6. Obama and Arab States
Simcha ,   So. Cal. USA   (10.06.13)
They have every reason to be worried. From the onset it has been clear that he is weak. He has NO experience in world matters and thinks being on bended knee will solve any crises. We can't trust him here in the USA so why should anyone else trust him. He is destroying our position with long time allies.
7. evil u$a
daniel ,   the world   (10.06.13)
usa have killed many people,usa have spend so much money in wars,usa have destroyed many nations,usa have left in ruins and poverty all the countries they invaded and i ask to myself: how many lives would usa save with that money doing the good will? usa go home
8. #2
Madeleine ,   Israel   (10.06.13)
Bush went to war in Iraq to protect his oil prices. he made no secret of that and announced it publicly. The west does not seem to understand that democracy and Islam - an oxymoron. Islam does not recognise democracy. The US had no business to interfer in Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt and only interfered in Libya when it saw that there too, lucrative contracts - ga, oil - were going to be forfeited. It didn't respond to its diplomats in Libya who had called for increased security well before they were attacked. America is a nation in decline, while the East is on the rise. I feel sorry for those Americans who still feel that Obama is doing good things for their country.
9. Well...lets be realistic...everybody loves me baby...
Steven Wilson ,   Anchorage, Alaska   (10.06.13)
as long as I'm coming to the rescue, with troops and cash, to kill the bad guys. Australia limits its immigration to everyone....and doesn't have the population to fight a country like China. The Philippines kicked the United States out of the country....then after China came a calling...want us back to protect them again. The Arab nations had us in their pocket addicted to their oil....which is now changing with possible self sufficiency in our own oil and natural gas finds in the United States. We don't have to beg for oil anymore. Israel wants us to take out Iran....but mothers and fathers of all the children that have been killed in incessant wars over the last 10 years... are sick of perpetual warfare. They are starting to get very defensive about their children being killed over and over again...for someone elses political beef. The United States is full of citizens who lost their jobs and homes in 2008...and haven't recovered from it. Last but not least...this guy that American Jews voted for in the Democratic Party... ran as an anti war President. Obama was going to free us from George Bushes legacy of WAR. A political puppet with no free will to start a war was voted into office. American Jews as well as all the rest of the anti war Democratic crowd hopped on board. Now...all of a sudden...you expect to get the opposite of what American Jews and the rest of the group... voted for? Where have all the anti war crowd gone all of a sudden. Now they want another war...but they preached to Americans about No More War...and unfortunately...Americans bought the line...hook line and sinker. We are tired...and burnt out. Someone else needs to step up to the plate and lob a few grenades... out of the rest of the countries asking for help. Some of us value our children's lives too. When a country lets several hundred murdering terrorists loose for Galid Shalit....then asks for someone else to come in and fight a group of people who could very well have the same thugs in its midst....why would anyone bother coming to the rescue. Don't get me wrong...Obama is doing the exact same thing in Gauntanomo Bay Cuba. The Democrats whine for the release of these poor terrorists...then our troops get killed by the same people on the same battlefield months later. Sometimes....an idiot running the country...isn't worth fighting for anymore. Obama is just that guy. The one no one will follow into battle.
10. 2# Highly unlikely assumption.
Steven Wilson ,   Anchorage, Alaska   (10.06.13)
Bernanke is printing money at a Trillion dollars a year in his Q-E three Debacle. The country is actually 145 Trillion dollars in debt when on and off the book debt is put together. We only have 144 million working American citizens. Do the math...over one million dollars owed by each citizen. 6 Trillion would be a drop in the bucket in comparison. Bernanke is printing enough funny money to cause the exact same problem by your analysis...but nothings happening. 85 billion a month and counting.
11. Why are you wailing? What's your problem?
Tom W ,   USA   (10.06.13)
Let's be honest: the Obama administration is the Jewish dreams come true. 78% voted for him - twice- Jewish plutocrats are his chief donors, the press of Suzberger's (a.k.a. N.Y. Times) fawning over him, Hollywood biggest money bag, Katzenberg studios prostrating to him ... So why are you wailing an complaining all the time? Election has consequence, live with it .
12. and i wrote
dr.basema ,   jerusalem   (10.06.13)
it is the autoconcern from a big universe to a little pulse of electron
13. All of you don't get it !
Barbara ,   Haifa Israel   (10.06.13)
BO now says U.S. not the world's policeman, but he demanded that Mubarak leave and now look at Egypt. BO says chemical attack on Syrian citizens is red line, sets up American ships, and then backs down. Libya was another mess - thought it was safe when not. Maybe he is thinking it is all collateral damage - as long as he keeps the peace sign over his head. And what about U.S. economics that were supposed to be fixed by now - as promised by BO in his first term. Sorry, I see that BO is the one that is bringing down America.
14. #10 so explain
(10.06.13)
So why is Obama doing everything he can to increase the debt and decrease the number of working American citizens?
15. President can be circumvented
Zechariah   (10.06.13)
A militarily weak president can be circumvented by a strong group in the Armed Forces and Congress .The health stalemate is wrong really and ought be passed .You have to look at the social cohesiveness of the USA.Same in Israel the Social gap is too great .
16. Puff piece
(10.06.13)
The caption "WW II vets cross memorial barricades despite shutdown" should make any honest person angry. These are men who fought at Normandy and Iwo Jima. They planned the visit to their memorial a long time in advance with the little money they have, and let's be honest, at their age they won't have another chance to visit. The government shutdown shouldn't have mattered: the memorial was always freely accessible until the Obama regime spent taxpayers money to hire thugs (who otherwise wouldn't be there) and rent barricades (they need to get their from somewhere) to make some silly juvenile community-organizer point. Something must be wrong with Obama if he thinks it's acceptable to send thugs to confront wheelchair bound 80 and 90 year old men.
17. Mr Yatom..I suggest you study TB 9
Al   (10.06.13)
You release murderers and you expect America to wipe your ass after you shat all over yourself. Its time for you to sit down and learn from your mistakes. America is hurting right now but it will recover at some time. Israel cant afford to continue the approach it has been taking for the past 20 years. Its failing the country and causing untold misery. Mr Yaton, you and your ilk brought incredible damage to Israel by allowing the PLO to be there. DEAL WITH IT and stop worrying whether America will continue being your wet nurse.
18. God of Abram Issac & His people. Not USA
Pasquinel.Canada   (10.08.13)
Our Father who is in heaven.The great trapper Pasquinel believes in Him. He is my God too. Thanks to you Israel His chosen ones, and this ticks off the rest of the world. Oh well!!!
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