| Rath said: No my point is that goodwill has to be earned, then it goes a long way. I don't think in the cases you cited America has earned any. Goodwill only goes far when it exists in the first place. In other places America has, in certain places in Africa if you are an American people will love you for it. You made two examples which just didn't make sense. Especially the charity one, USA gives the least of its money for aid out of any OECD country. How on earth is that meant to get you goodwill? And how is turning up for a war late and only when basically forced to meant to get you much goodwill? I really think I must be completely missing your point. |
If good will can't be earned by comitting a nations military to fight a war in defense of another continent then I don't see how changing a policy is going to earn it. Having had some reasons of our own obviously isn't a concern in this instance since your entire point is that it would benefit us to change the policy (ie our interests)...so why is self-interest some huge good will overriding issue for entering the war, but not for the policy change? Furthermore, we have resisted this kind of policy in the past and are coming very late to the game to these sorts of policies compared to other countries...and yet that lateness isn't a reason we won't get good will, but being late is apparently a good enough reason why we deserve nothing in the way of good will for our war efforts?
As for the aid, you make no attempt to even justify your ridiculous attempt to disregard the work we do. Your argument with those graph quite literally amounts to "Well the US has done quite well for themselves and because of that wealth we will give them less credit per dollar than we give other nations that haven't done as well for themselves.". Your own chart shows we give twice as much in aid as any other country and you have the gaul to think we deserve nothing in the way of good will for that...all while trying to convince me this policy change is worthwhile for the good will it will produce for the US.
Contradictions anyone? Sending hundreds of billions of dollars every year, and far more than any other nation isn't "earning" good will, but signing a paper to change a policy is? Sending thousands of men to die on foriegn soil in an effort to free other nations from Nazi tyranny doesn't earn good will, but signing a paper to change a policy will?
I actually find it pretty insulting that you honestly believe the US has earned zero good will from its humanitarian and WW efforts. But I'd be lying if I said I found it surprising. But what is truly astonishing to me is that you don't see how much it proves my point about how fickle and worthless good will can be.
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