[hojutok]

let me just put it this way.. people's opinion changes very often. once those that doesn't like 'america' live in america for any length of time, they will learn to love it.

about 99% of non-americans i meet in US all say they love america. things are defintely different, however, it's much more easy to have 'life' in america. that include russians, germans, british, polish, korean, japanese, french, chinese... you name it. only people that i met who say that they don't like america so far are american college students who would like to look 'cool', or korean graduate students who know that they are going to go back to korea. and of course, non-americans who never lived in america.

it's like americans saying french folks are rude and they stink. last two times i've been to paris, i never met a rude french, nor did they stink all that bad. tho.. their beer sucked.

there are idiots every where, and as far as foreign policy is concerned, i don't see anyone else doing much about anything out there other than for their own interest.

pete