Hi magillacuddy,
Thanks for your response. You wrote:
Yes, but I fear you missed my point. Let me see if I can be a bit more clear. President Trump has assured us at least a few times that since he began working in the Middle East that we don't hear the people of Iran shouting 'death to America'. So, I fully understand the 'why' that Iranians march in the streets and raise their fists to the sky and shout 'death to America'. They see us as oppressors to their right to live as a sovereign nation with their own dreams and desires and understanding of how the people living within the borders of Iran should be allowed to live. We are making life, and have been for quite some time, very, very difficult for them to live unless they will live under our authority. Unless they acquiesce to our demands as to how they shall live, we are oppressing their freedom to exist as a nation of people who want to live differently than we do, or even to, in some respects, live the same. They want to have and to hold the same weapons that we do because they understand that the United States, or any of the other nations that hold nuclear weapons, could, just as we've already shown we're willing to do in Japan, kill thousands upon thousands of their people with just the push of a button. They want the right to have the same defensive and offensive weapons as many of the other nations upon the earth have.
Now they even have the additional hatred for us in that we signed off on an agreement, a plan if you will, whereby they could live in relative freedom and enjoy the bounty of free trade and they agreed to curtail their desire for nuclear weaponry. Then our great and morally defunct glorious leader pulled the rug out from under them and began screwing down upon them sanctions that are even worse than what they lived under previous to the agreement. Who isn't going to hate whatever entity would do that to a nation of people?
We, of course think that they're unstable and shouldn't have control over such power, but they, especially now, look at us and think the same thing of us. They see a leader who gives no weight to already agreed upon matters. A leader who has no qualms in tweeting all over the globe that he's perfectly willing to annihilate them or North Korea or any other nation that doesn't toe the 'American' line. They live under the fear that maybe one day President Trump could wake up and say, "Push the button!" They want to hold that same kind of power and as a sovereign nation, they don't understand why they can't pursue such things just as much as the United States and China and Russia and Pakistan and India do.
So yes, I think I fully understand 'why' they chant 'death to America'. My point, however, is that once again, the words proceeding from the mouth of our LIC have proven to be false. That he really isn't the great and powerful Oz that he tries to convince us that he is. He is just a mean man who will literally slice open ones throat and cut through the jugular to bring about unending pain and suffering until you acquiesce to his desires and commands. I imagine that most sovereign nations would feel put upon under such circumstances. Donald Trump doesn't know how to play well in the sandbox of nations. He doesn't understand that the human beings, the actual mothers and fathers and businessmen and women of other nations hold the same things dear and have the same hopes and desires as we do. That they have the right to live within their borders, just as we do, as they desire as a people to live.
But here's the point. Your president is trying to convince you that it's only because of his acumen and savvy business tactics that we don't hear 'death to America' any longer. That just simply isn't true.
God bless,
In Christ, ted