I doubt the green will recover any time soon. Bombing Iran, Syria and Palestine will give the United States of America (not America because America is two continents, North America and South America) immediate punishment either from those countries, the UN or the public. Like a child making a scene by hitting an older child with a hammer.
I think the only repercussions of us bombing either or both countries will be a huge fucking mess of a "conflict" in the middle east, that will only weaken us as a nation and then the world will belong to the Chinese and trade will be done in Mandarin.
I'm not sure I agree with the child analogy though. More like a child stepping on an ant hill, and then crying to his mom when all the ant bites start adding up and it hurts too much.
I don't care if it's the United States of 'America'. I have my opinion that people shouldn't call it 'America' when it's the US of A. Call it the US for all you like, but saying 'America' annoys me. Haven't you seen the picture, you know, the one that says 'What USA thinks America is' and 'What the rest of the world think America is'. Still you're entitled to your views and I'm entitled to mine.
I'll say!
Eh. I find that this is the opinion of many in Latin America. Our Spanish speaking neighbors to the south are quite touchy about name calling though (my girlfriend hates to be called a 'Latina'). She also tries to get people to call themselves "United Statesians." ... I don't think it's gong to change anytime soon, though.
What's interesting is that many of those countries teach that North and South America are one single continent, and that we here in the United States try to separate them for our own political reasons.
Check this out: read the wikipidia article on continents in English:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ContinentThen translate it to Spanish:
http://es.wikipedia....wiki/ContinenteApparently "7 Continents" translates to "6 continentes" in the Spanish article.
Er. All of that said to add more light to the whole debate--I find it interesting that something you learned since you were in second grade is totally an issue of opinion. Personally, though, I'll call myself an American until I die, no doubt.
This post has been edited by Uszi: 27 May 2008 - 08:15 AM