who poeses the greatest threat?

Topic:mailer
The European edition of time magazine conducted a poll on its website and asked what country poses the greatest danger to world peace. The responses were: North Korea with 7 percent, Iraq with 8, and the United States with 84%. So why are we so hated and why do people say that the United States intends to seek world domination. Corporate Capitalism is a big part in seeing the whole picture. If I saw nothing but businesses from other countries here and knowing that their profiting from them being here, it would anger me a little to, but not as far as to say that they are seeking global domination. Corporate capitalism and establishing yourself around the world is the key for global domination, so I think that is one of the main reasons we are hated so much.

Mailer said that everywhere he looked somebody was waving a flag. The country plunged into a fever of patriotism and didn’t understand what they were supporting. A good example he put forth and compared was patriosm to professional athletes. He said that he can cheer athletes who score winning touchdowns when he doesn’t even know the first thing about them. The government used the flag and the American public was supporting it. They loved words like evil. Bush used the word as if it were a button he could push to increase his power. Bush used the word evil as a narcotic for that part of the American public which feels most distressed. Mailer defines evil as the idea of irreparable damage you’re going to do and then proceed to do it after you already know it is wrong.

I just don’t understand how our attention got flipped from one war to the other. The connections between Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden were minimal. So why did we push so hard to change from one direction to the other. The first reaction to September 11 was to destroy Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. After Afghanistan was not going our way the attention was pulled toward Iraq and things that were more important to the United States, like oil. We went into Iraq accusing them of having weapons of mass destruction. I just can not support or believe that was the reason for going to war. If that is the case, then why are we not at war with lets say half a dozen other countries that have these weapons, and openly admit it. Mailer said that George Bush has a quest for world domination. There is no evidence that supports that, but there is no evidence that proves otherwise. I have to say that I agree with him to a certain extent. When the war started I was not for or against the war, because at the time I could have cared less. After I watched a movie called fahrenheight 9/11 I have to believe there is more to it than what the government is telling the American public.