Dont you think America should mind its own business?

Bush is really screwed up but where is the rest of the world? Why isn't the United Nations doing anything to help the countries of Africa? Why are so many former Soviet Countries still exporting land mines throughout the world? Why is Afghanistan and North Korea still growing and selling and addicting millions of people with opiates? Why did China let their dolphins die out? Why is Brazil in such a hurry to bull doze the Amazon rain forest to make room for more cow pastures? Why is China building up a submarine fleet and cutting deals with Opec countries? Why is Iran purposefully trying to antagonize Europe? Why are animals still held in zoos against their will? Why is there so much piracy in the Indian Ocean, Malaysia and around the horn of Africa? Does circumcision really helps stop the spread of HIV or is that some sort of strange myth? I'm not trying to upset the rest of the world, but what are each of the countries of the world doing to help themselves or their neighbors? We Americans are in the process of taking our President to task over the screwed up things he has done. What are you my brothers and sisters around the world going to do when your leaders do something as screwed up or possibly even worse?

If we try to help people hate it, when we do not help other people hate it. There is no winning

I think what most countries don't seem to realize is America isn't trying to make the world a better place. It's trying to make it's own citizens safer. We didn't declare war on the terrorists, they declared war on us. This isn't a war that started with Bush and 9/11, it's been going on for some time now, going back as far as Jimmy Carter. The only difference is, unlike other presidents, Bush is taking the right approach and finally fighting back. And, if a country insists on hiding them, then that country's government needs to be removed. Bin Laden is a criminal in countries all over the world, including his own homeland of Saudi Arabia. If you hide him, you are as guilty as he is.

Well said friend.i belive american troops should leave iraq and let iraq peoples decide the governments.and i don't think their are propaging democracy or abolishing terrorism in the world.they captured iraq for petroleum.if the really want abolish terrorism the shld go to somalia,kenya,or other afican contries where people are dieing in poverty an diseaes.

Just to set the record straight, most Americans don't want Bush either. BUT...because the cowards, whoever they were, who tried to cripple this country by smashing planes into buildings & killing innocents, the US apparently has to be the police of at least the 3rd world, the middle east...They can't seem to be able to control themselves, they have to dress their women up like mummies...excuse me, at least mummies have some shape to them! They dress them like that because they can't control their own urges. They want to cover all the women in the world up, because they can't be trusted! No control at all. And, they want to take over our country to makle it theirs. So, when other countries "mind their own business" maybe we will be able to as well.

You are right friend. Because of this attitude America it detroying one terrosist and pushing to make hundreds of others.

Ive always agreed with this. Our government needs to just mind their own business and start taking care of their OWN people instead of worrying about everyone else!

Ask the survivors of 9/11 in usa,ask the victims relatives who went and are still undergoing the mental,emotional trauma of losing a loved one in the bomb blasts, Ask the people of Iraq who regardshim as a saviour,If Bush has a vision to make this nation terrorist free then,we should support him,not criticize.

I guess I am kind of confused on this whole topic. Everyone keeps saying the Americans are greedy, they want this, that and the other....That is like saying white people can't dance. Don't blame all of America for what you don't like. There are many Americans who don't like the way the government is ran but there isn't much we can do about it. I could care less really about helping out other countries. I mean, we have enough starving people in our country, why feed the other ones we we have people here to feed? Why send aid to other countries to stop the speread of disease when we can use that $$ to cure other diseases here. Why do we have to send money to poor countries when we could be paying off our national deficite? Why are we buying and trading with other countries to help their economy? We can just buy American made stuff made in the good ole US. I agree with you, I think America should stop all trade agreements with other countries, lock down the borders and let them do with what they have. We can stop all international travel as well since the Americans are not wanted in their tourist lands. Let them make their own money somehow with out the help of tourist, etc. Everyone write to your leaders and maybe they will listen.

I think America is just a puppet of Jewish or Isrealian. Israel is the true bad guy. Thousand of people die useless on Gazza and America seems don't do nothing. The media is make a side with those villants. Maybe because the media have been controlled by Jewish people.

I Love this topic of conversation. First of all, you're blind if you do not see that the invasion of Iraq, and quite possibly 9/11 was all apart of a plan to make some rich people richer. Iraq happens to one of the biggest suppliers of oil in the world, and our current administration and croneys have a lot of wealth tied up in oil. Need I remind everyone that the Saudis we call allies, even though every pilot on 9/11 was Saudi, and that prior to our invasion of Iraq, never once has the U.S. ever been attacked in a terrorist manner by an Iraqi? Okay, and how about the Geneva Convention? And the very ideals we supposedly espouse. It is against international law to target a nation's leader as we did. We never did finish up in Afghanistan and get Osama Bin Laden. (By the way, is it a coincidence that the Bid Laden family and Bush family have been allies for numerous years?) And okay, if you disagree with me, on my ethics that's fine, so let's talk about strategy. A) During the Clinton administration, military wargames determined that we would need at least 3x as many troops to "successfully" occupy Iraq, and even then there'd still be problems. Second of all, why didn't anyone see this civil war that's brewing in Iraq coming? Everybody else but our blind administration saw it. finally, how is it so many conservative Americans can call themselves Christians and blindly support this war in the first place? What part of "Thou Shalt Not Kill" can't you understand? Now, we're in the quagmire. Iraq is ripping itself to pieces while we're there, but would/will only do so at a much faster and devastating pace if we leave. Now, we need the international communities support (the same international community we alienated) if things are ever to be stabilized again. finally, every great philosopher and religious leader has told us again and again, that violence begets violence. To put it in terms that some or the ignorami may understand, For every bomb you drop, killing another man, woman, or child in Afghanistan, Iraq, or wherever, you are very likely guaranteeing that that person's young relatives are going to grow up hating "Great Satan" a term of endearment for the U.S. in much of the world. Finally, you cannot force your ideologies on another people. I"m not going to pretend I understand the middleastern people. But I do know that American Capitalism/Democracy don't exactly blend well with conservative Islamic and eastern ideologies. It's like that famous "52%" just don't have enough brains to figure some of these, what should be so basic and obvious facts out. America is hated now, perhaps more than we've ever been. And it's because we gave the international community the middle finger, and because we stirred up a hornet's nest, unnecessarily in the middleast. WE've guaranteed our own loss of freedom, because while we're killing (and making more "terrorists") as a result, we're almost guaranteeing another attack on U.S. soil, in which the Patriot Act and recent suspension of Habeus Corpus is going to look like child's play.

First of all Bush isn't running anything, he's a face for a movement. A movement of globalization. The elite of the world don't care about crimes commited by Saddam, if that were the case we would never have backed Iraq in the first place. These crimes we are putting him on trial for happened before we took his side against Iran. We didn't have a problem with him until he switched from the petro-dollar to the petro-euro, and when it's the 2nd largest oil holder in the world that's cause for war. If America is so concerned about war crimes then why aren't we in darfur or why didn't we do something to stop the Rwandan genocide? because they don't have the oil Iraq does. Yes, I think that our actions in dealing with terrorism have created more terrorists. But they are only terrorists to me and to you. In the lands that they come from they are freedom fighters and infadel killers. They need to be "terrorist" to me and to you otherwise there would be no way in hell we would allow our government to go invade other countries for what is basically the need for more resources. It's a hard question to answer because if you say we should mind our own business then that means falling behind in every imaginable field because we can't obtain the resources that drive creation. If you say yes than you are backing America's empirical drive to dominate all the worlds resources at the cost of millions of lives.

cant say... it totslly depends on 1 self... we can hav control over it.. but yes i do feel the same...

I totally agree with you.... America should really be minding it's own business rather than poking its nose in other country's business... What i think is that the main reason for this 'intrusion' by US is due to the fact that they seem to be losing there 'hold' on this world and are becoming increasingly insecure about their position in this new world!!!

i am totally agree with u!it become a nature of americe that it always try to poke it"s nose into other"s matters!

I think the United States should re-orient its goals to take into consideration "the world we live in" and not "the world it wants."

Very perceptive! No, there is no democracy in America, and the USA has never been a democratic nation. As a matter of fact, the USA is currently a police state. About minding its own business, the USA government simply will do no such thing - in fear that its people will finally realize what a diabolic government they in fact have. It uses nosiness as a tactic to divert attention from its domestic problems.

I would like to personally thank the original poster as well as several other non-Americans who have replied for realizing that the American government and the American people are not always one and the same. You are better people than George W. Bush (not the highest compliment, I realize). Many (actually most) of us agree with you.

it really shouldnt be our business whether another country is in need. when we have a crisis you dont see many other countries comming to help us. why should we help them?

There were WMD's (chemical agents and nuclear plans) in Iraq. Not to mention the 16 UN Resolutions they were violating. Iraqis don't hate America, lots of Iraqis cheered when we came in. Many still cheer when they help establish the democracy and help 70% of the people vote in democratic elections. When the US troops build schools and centers for them. You just don't see the boring stuff on TV. And it was a pretzel, not popcorn.