The U.S. as seen from a world perspective, politically. Your opinion please!

[Memnoch]

What I find amazing is that people who had been debating furiously on this thread have gone the full eight months without touching it, then when it resurfaces they can continue their argument as if it was yesterday.

[Barry the Sprout]

Originally posted by Absynthe: Just to clarify... I wasn't asking my fellow countrymen NOT to post to this thread, I was asking for the overall view from the people of other nations. There was a a lot of international exchange of opinions on IW in the weeks before the 9-11 events, and most of it had to do with the American administrations' policies, and how they affected other nations. Unfortunately, much of this exchange was buried under the wave of hyper-patriotism following the terrorist attacks on America. It would have been interesting to see how George W. would have fared had the terrorist attacks not occured and supplied him with the political crutch of a holy war.

You're brave man Absynthe. A very brave man...

*runs for cover*

But seriously, I think this would have been extremely interesting as well. He had a weak mandate to begin with so who knows what might have happened.

And Mem... where you expecting peoples opinions to have changed over the 8 months?

[norompanlasolas]

lol... i just spent 15mins reading this thread. very interesting to see the hot issues in those days (spyplane incident, kyoto, etc). on a side note, imagine that guy rahmid after 11/9.