Americans have no right to vote for a President

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I want to revise what I said about Americans
not having a right to vote for their President.

They should have a vote, but so should every
man woman and child in every other country.
(Free countries that do not support terrorism)

When the action of the American President
"the leader of the free world" effects the lives
of so many people globally, it becomes their
business. This supersedes our sovereignty,

not only is the nation ours but so is the obligation,
as a nation with such power, to the rest of the world.

when what we do on our own behalf adversely affects
them.. not only are we reponsible for the damages, but
also a resolution that will take their concerns into account
and include them in any future decision making process.

Such a process would make available to them, but not
be limited to, participation in the United States
Presidential elections

raggie:
i still dont think the holocaust analogy holds true for a comparison with 9/11.
for one, as sora pointed out, the PR situation was entirely different. 60 years ago, information (and thus, opinion-forming) wasnt as global a thing as it is today, and its not all that much of a task to first deride a minority and declare them to be of lower value, and afterwards secretly butcher them away (while the common population has enough trouble with family members at war, food rationalization, war efforts, etcetera).
9/11 was, from our point of view, a minority strike against "the right order", read: "us". the "us" of today being significantly larger than the german populations "us" 60 years ago...

and honestly... the resulting action of 9/11 had exactly one success, which was getting the taliban out of afghanistan. its up to armies with a proper plan to try keeping peace down there. the attack on iraq was pretty much without any connection to the declared war on terrorism - why attack a secular country that, albeit a dictatorial regime, is as much on the list of fundamentalist terrorists as the united states are?
id say that although the american counterstrike was masked under a load of pretend rightness, ideals and w*king liberty around, in the end, it had much of a simple revenge strike. he hurt me, im gonna hurt him. period.

see, im not against you liking your country - i like where i come from, too. and there are plenty of reasons for both of us. i really just dont buy into american superiority... great things happened in america (heck, id sure like donuts were more easily accessible over here) but not all and everything is golden over there, either.
you have a point of lauding those ideals of freedom and stuff... but why still reside in a stone-age version of pretend-democracy? why accept a legislature that forces a moral point upon its citizens instead of providing them a basic framework to live by their own (free!) moral points? why still attempt to force your ideas of statebuilding upon others? theres not much ring to the melting pot thing, when you make it a melting pot imperialism. (very much the behaviour we critizise NTs doing, by the way)

I certainly hope you're joking, but I have a feeling you're not.

Dumb post.

I will wrap this up and thats it Im done.
Truthfully dont care what any of you arrogant
American "Us before the world" types think anyway.
You are the reason the rest of the world hates America.

Like it or not, deny it or not, The United States is the capital of the world. Did you think it would be France? As the first world state America will not isolate itself from the concerns of the other world nations and will instead begin the evolution of the worldwide conscience by leading these nations into the future. As America begins to share the concerns of other countries and takes part in their affairs for either good or bad, our commitment to them and our partnership with them becomes magnified and will eventually be one involving a shared government. The time has come to begin the framework that will ultimately allow these countries to vote in our Presidential elections. Any sentiment contrary to this is oblivious to the true nature of the world beyond our borders and rooted in either democratic or republican power hungry greed.

Thats it
You are either capable of
seeing the big picture or you are not