| Major achievements and failures of USA | |
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| Feb 12, 2008 00:26 |   |
| guesttom | I came across a very interesting thread in China Daily's forum. The author listed lots of "achievements" and " failures" of USA since it was founded. I'd like to share with you know how do think of them: Wiping out of existence the Natives of North America - success Snatching territory from the Mexicans - success Enslaving the Negroes - success Steering up a civil war among each other - success Dividing Korea into two parts - success Destroying Vietnam - success Suppressing Cuba for decades - success Steering up a cold war -success Bringing peace and prosperity to the Middle East - failed Bringing peace and prosperity to Afghanistan - failed Bringing peace and prosperity to Irak -failed Bringing peace and prosperity to Africa - failed Bringing peace and prosperity to South America - failed Bringing peace and prosperity to Middle America - failed Calling everyone who criticizes the USA a communist - success Calling everyone who fights the USA a terrorist - success Control over oil - success Make the US Dollar the top world currency - success Not to pay UN member fees - success Not to sign Kyoto protocol - success Not to respect the Geneva convention - success Make the Internet being controlled only by the USA - success Make everyone believe communism is a bad thing - success Make everyone believe communism must fail - success Make everyone believe democracy is a good thing - success Make everyone believe democracy is the only way - success Make everyone believe two parties constitute a democracy - success Make everyone believe the USA stands for peace and freedom - success Make everyone believe only the USA knows whats right and wrong - success Controlling the USA policy by a bunch of jewish and christian nabobs - success Controlling the USA economy by a bunch of jewish and christian nabobs - success Controlling the USA education by a bunch of jewish and christian nabobs - success Controlling the USA science by a bunch of jewish and christian nabobs - success Controlling the USA public health system by a bunch of jewish and christian nabobs - success Make the poor stay poor - success Make the middle class poorer - success Make the rich even richer - success Make the USA a Big Brother Nation - success Denying other countries their right of nuclear weapons - success Tightening the conditions of living for most of us - success Encourage people to make debts - success |
| Feb 12, 2008 01:16 | #1 |
 | he, he poor you |
| Feb 12, 2008 10:42 | #2 |
| 95% correct Guest. |
| Feb 12, 2008 12:40 | #3 |
| i know Paul, Based on previous input in this forum from you I just marvel who hates America the most you or the Taliban? At less, the Taliban got their rear kick, Have you ever thought about what the Aboriginal think and KNOW of the Australian conquerors? |
| Feb 12, 2008 13:22 | #4 |
| Australia to Apologize to Aborigines By ROHAN SULLIVAN (Associated Press Writer) From Associated Press February 12, 2008 1:02 PM EST CANBERRA, Australia - Aborigines organized breakfast barbecues in Outback communities, giant TV screens went up in state capitals, and schools planned assemblies so students can watch the telecast of Australia's government apologizing for policies that degraded its indigenous people. The formal apology motion that new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd scheduled for a Parliament vote Wednesday was welcomed as a powerful gesture of reconciliation between the descendants of Australia's original inhabitants and those of the white settlers who now rule. Aborigines remain the country's poorest and most disadvantaged group, and Rudd has made improving their lives one of his government's top priorities. As part of that campaign, Aborigines were invited for the first time to give a traditional welcome Tuesday at the official opening of the Parliament session - symbolic recognition that the land on which the capital was built was taken from Aborigines without compensation. The apology is directed at tens of thousands of Aborigines who were forcibly taken from their families as children under now abandoned assimilation policies. "We apologize for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians," the apology motion says. "To the mothers and the fathers, the brothers and the sisters, for the breaking up of families and communities, we say sorry. "And for the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud people and a proud culture, we say sorry." THIS FROM THE NEWS TODAY, PAUL I DO NOT THINK AUSTRALIANS HAVE BEEN TOO GOOD. Do you agree? |
| Feb 12, 2008 21:25 | #5 |
| Guest, a nicely balanced piece.....perhaps you could list a few other counties for us? JC, this policy was not just restricted to just Australia. It was happening in the UK in the same period; children being taken from families and in some cases sent off to Oz. Dodger. |
| Feb 13, 2008 09:21 | #6 |
| 'Britain should apologise to Aborigines' By Nick Squires in Sydney Last Updated: 2:19pm GMT 13/02/2008 Britain is facing demands to join Australia in apologising to Aborigines who were snatched from their families as children, after Kevin Rudd, the prime minister, spoke of removing a "great stain from the nation’s soul". In a speech in parliament in Canberra, Mr Rudd delivered an historic apology to the tens of thousands of Aboriginal children who were forcibly taken from their parents under an official policy of racial assimilation from the 1880s to 1970. Using the word sorry three times in his address, Mr Rudd apologised for "the indignity and degradation inflicted on a proud people" and spoke of "one of the darkest chapters in Australia's history". As the former colonial power until the Australian colonies came together as a federation in 1901, Britain should also apologise for Aboriginal children being sent to foster families and institutions, said prominent human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson, QC. Mr Robertson, an Australian based in London, said Britain bore a "heavy historic responsibility" because colonial authorities had created an office known as the Protector of Aborigines, which oversaw the removal of mixed-race children. The policy was based on the belief that "full-blood" Aborigines would eventually die out and that "half-caste" children could be integrated into white society. Aboriginality would be bred out over successive generations by pairing indigenous women with white men. "The point I make in calling on the British government to endorse the apology is not only were the British responsible, for example, in wiping out the Tasmanian Aborigines, which was the worst form of genocide, but [so were] English intellectuals who inspired the assimilation policies that led to the Stolen Generation," Mr Robertson told Australian Associated Press. He said the fate of Aboriginal children wrenched from their families should "touch a guilty nerve" in the UK. Aboriginal leaders supported the call for British atonement. "It’s something we would welcome. The British should acknowledge the role they played in the dispossession of Aborigines and in the policy of removing children," said Michael Mansell, a prominent Aboriginal lawyer and activist from Tasmania. "The English have certainly got blood on their hands and owe Aborigines an apology for the way they treated them. They shot our people and hunted them on horseback. A country is all the richer if it can face up to the wrongs of its past." He said stories of children being forcibly taken from their sobbing mothers, as documented in an official report in 1997, were deeply poignant. |
| Feb 13, 2008 09:21 | #7 |
| "There is something terribly primal about these first-hand accounts. The pain is searing, it screams from the pages - the hurt, the humiliation, the degradation and the sheer brutality of the act of physically separating a mother from her children is a deep assault on our senses and on our most elemental sense of humanity. These stories cry out for an apology." |
| Feb 13, 2008 09:30 | #8 |
| 20.3.13 Aboriginal women's rights as parents were constantly curbed. They were constantly scrutinised, and subject to special regulations and strict sexual codes of conduct. They were not 'free' to do their mothering as best they could. If parents failed in the eyes of the state, they lost the right to see these children, and to play a parenting role with them. This 'failure' that the women suffered in having their children taken away must have had a terrible psychological impact on their relations with these children, if they ever saw them again. Those implementing the policy told Aboriginal mothers to blame themselves. Anxiety, depression, confusion and most of all, anger and despair resulted; if not in the mother or father, then in the children who were taken away. 20.3.14 Residents of 'institutions' such as mission stations required permits to stay, and their houses could be inspected by the Minister or a police officer at will. 13 This right to inspect was used extensively during the 1950s and 1960s in most States. Such inspections often led to removal of children; see, for example, the reports on the deaths of Thomas Carr and Clarrie Nean. Clarrie became a ward on the basis of his home conditions, though reports varied considerably. Muriel, his mother, stated he was taken away for no good reason: 'They were just snapping the kids up from everywhere, every mission, just sending them away'. 20.3.15 It was the mothers, and to a lesser extent the fathers, who were blamed for their children being taken away. It was their fault for not bringing the children up like non-Aboriginal people, in the same material conditions. Children also bore great resentment against their parents for 'letting them go', feeling they had been unwanted, and not understanding why their parents did not fight to have them back, or keep in touch with them. They did not know that parents were often totally denied knowledge of their whereabouts. Some parents feared contact with authorities may mean losing other children. |
| Feb 13, 2008 19:13 | #9 |
| *sigh* World history, plain and simple. Every superpower that came to be on this planet has committed some horrible “sins”. None better than the other. Just different countries for different periods. So which country is going to be the next superpower and be trashed next? |
| Feb 13, 2008 21:38 | #10 |
| Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is better than Howard in reflecting on the mistreatment of indigenous people. Howard refused to apologize to the "Stolen Generation"--Aboriginal children removed from their parents by the Australian governments. The mistreatment lasted for decades and ended in 1970s. Kevin Rudd's attitude to the Aboriginal population was sincere, and he proposed a motion to apologise to the indigineous in the Aussie National parliament. Rudd did a good job. |
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