I think most people were against Iraq invasion , middle easterns or not, but the arabic governments supported or in other words did what Bush told them to do.

Libya situation is just laughable really and arabic leaders once again showed that they are incapable of shit. I thank France, Denemark, USA and every other country for the help <3. The situation seemed to get worse when the arabic league leader came out to say "we asked for a no fly zone not bombing" the general public  believed him (does he even know what must be done to achieve a no fly zone?) and the media were just as stupid and started reporting what ulterior motives France could have and how the USA is now involved despite saying they wouldn't be.  Now, even if that was true, what do you fuckers expect? that's like when you give a homeless man a MAC meal yet he still despises you for not getting him Hardeez.

I am not trying to defend us, we are generally stupid and easily mislead. The conflict you are asking about is probably because everything we are taught at school is the exact opposite of what our governments stand for. It's about time we teach our children IN SCHOOLS that israel isn't going anywhere and how having international relationships with the USA and other countries is a MUST to survive. Our media should be fired and replaced and the word conspiracy theory should be banned. did I answer your question? XXD

Yes, but before the British and Germans started writng about vampires, they were already wide known in slavic provinces: The german writer (i forgot his name, its on wikipedia) started writing about vampires when he visited Austro Hungarian part of Serbia. And yes, there are diffrences between some slavic people and modern vmapire but most of them are still in recognised as slavic orgin.

As for Vlad Tepes, im not confusing him with anyone, im talking about Vlad III the Impaler? And he was well know for his resistance against the Turks and his brutallity towards them. And btw, he didnt cut off people's heads, he impaled them :) That was his favorite execution method. Thats why I like him - he gave the turks a taste of their own medicine.  in 1459, Mehmed sent envoys to Vlad to urge him to pay a delayed tribute of 10,000 ducats and 500 recruits into the Ottoman forces. Vlad refused. In order to provoke and instigate war with the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, Vlad had the Turkish envoys killed on the pretext that they had refused to raise their "hats" to him, by nailing their turbans to their heads. LOL, that guy was is a major IRL troll.

Then why did yoo guys lose?

And wasn't the South always behind the North in things like education?

The South lost because it had a fraction of the population, and a fraction of the economic base that the North had. It would be like the US going to war with Mexico right now.

The South has always been behind in pretty much everything. I don't know if you can really blame them, given that their cities were pretty much burned to the ground after the Civil War, whereas Northern cities didn't get touched.

Having said that, the South is growing a lot faster than the North due to pro-business economic policies. Most union states are growing at a rate of half of the rebel states. Eventually, the South will surpass the North in terms of economics. Education may be another situation, sadly.

As for the Rebel thing - I don't think its racism. Its more of a regional nationalism thing, IMO. Some people can't let go the fact that they lost a war which they started (and the Rebels did start the war, BTW by attacking Fort Sumter). There may also be some specific anti-government ideals engrained in rebel pride as well. But its generally fading away as urbanization and better economic conditions improve.

I knew that, I read Gone with the Wind. ;-P

And considering what I heard about the South, I'm not surprised at all you guys have terrible education (you guys don't even tach evolution in schools, no? and you have abistence-only "sex ed", no?)

I'm curious, since we're on this particular forum topic, which book would you say illustrated the best how slavery where you lived: Uncle Tom's Cabin or Gone with the Wind? Do you have any connection to slave owners? How really bad is the religious intolerance and homophobia over there? Why were Southerners Democrats in the past, and why are they now Republicans?

I am not well versed about slavery most likely due to poor edumacation here. My ancestors did own slaves though. There is very little religious tolerance. In fact not that long ago, there was a mosque being built around where I live, and people burned a ton of its equipment. Homophobia is the norm where I live. Religion is a humongous part of culture, seeing as I am in the "Bible Belt". The south is full of Democrats btw. The difference is (at least in my state) that we vote democrats for state/county/city positions(governor,mayor, etc.)  and Republicans for federal positions(senators, president).

Can you explain why this is?

And did they seriously burn the equipment? That's illegal!!!