Getting serious, for once.

[kellinator]

I'm curious about everyone's thoughts on this:

EDIT: I'm also very interested in the opinions of those outside the U.S. What do you think of the U.S. and its interactions with other countries? How's your economy?

[Poll #109254]

Comments

[murphy59]

Which is a bigger threat?

The United States

[murphy59]

Oh - and I live in Kansas, which always goes Republican so a vote for Gore would have been a waste anyway. I voted for Nader in the hopes he would get the 5% (or however much) he needed to get matching funds for his campaign in 2004.

[harleen.livejournal.com]

biggest threat: President Bush

the man is a moron, I will be happy when he is out....

[cynical7.livejournal.com]

I said N. Korea is the biggest threat but I was tempted to say America.

I tend to think we're going to come to something with N. Korea because no one is paying attention to them. While we're out fighting madman dubya's war, they will blow up the west coast. or something. the key will be its when we aren't looking...because we don't want anything from them so why be the aggressor? ::eye roll::

[fourtines.livejournal.com]

One of the biggest threats is the United States' dependancy on foreign oil. It's ludicrous now that we have the technology to produce both solar power and electric cars. And of course, there are the hybrids. One of the reasons that Osama Bin Laden hates us is because we politically use Arabian countries for their oil. It's stupid, unneccessary and bad for the environment. A lot of problems could be solved through a gradual movement away from the consumption of petrol by Western consumers.

[pinkeffigy.livejournal.com]

The fact is, there are many evil people who should really be disposed of running countries through acts of fear. Saddam and the North Korean leader (whatever his name is, I can never remember it) have extended histories of violence and torture with thier own people. I dont' think we should go to war or not go to war on the basis of one man's opinion, or the opinion of merely the most vocal people, be they in Hollywood, New York, or Matthews, Georgia. It is acting in ignorance if we walk away thinking he doesn't fund terroristic activity. and when i realize that, and remember the bodies falling from the building as i watched the first news reports, it becomes harder to justify inaction.
If the economy is truly as awful as to be compared possibly with the Depression, which was given as a possible answer, then none of us will be able to afford cute hybrid Hondas. Or Hondas at all. Or food for that matter. I dont' think George Bush is a fabulous president. But I don't think any of the options we were given would have been.
I no longer care why they dont like us.

PS-Teddy Roosevelt was the first in line to charge up San Juan Hill.
As a young man, it was a dream of his to go to war. Not that it justifies the current actions of this country.

[phantom_wolfboy]

You should either amend the start to indicate that you're asking for American opinions, or else take out the part about voting. And put in something about how we should rate the economy where we are . . .

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

misnomer on the Iraq thing. The bombing shooting part of the war will last a couple of months. The process of rebuilding a Western democracy in Iraq will take decades.