Reddit reviews Our Last Best Chance: The Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril

>Ironically this is the most arrogant thing you've said so far. I mean, fuck, how far up your ass is your own head?

Ooooh the evil guy that is arrogant.

>Eh, poorly at best. Based on a sample size of maybe a few hundred you've applied your label to 300 million people. Well done, that's truly the most accurate science.

Those 300 millions people are composed of 150 millions who refuse evolution on dumb religious ideology, which is already quite a lot. We also see plenty of police brutality from police bred from these 300 millions, policemen who have no trouble in going John Wayne on you for manifesting dissent. We also see a country whose government performed more than 1000 nuclear tests or had no problem in messing up with energetic policies of foreign countries, denying or opposing rational attempts to solve important worldwide issues. I also invite you to read King Abdullah's opinion about the Bush policy in middle east. And yes, you have a widely supported candidate such as Rick Santorum, basically a psychopath who would be in a mental hospital in Europe. And let's go on to the common people, with their affection to the supabooooowl, childish mascots (at least in Europe there's some kind of history behind it, something you clearly are lacking) or 300 hundred and more types of hamburger, all to become the most obese country in the world, with the worst GINI index in the civilized world, nobody dare to touch my right to go around with a gun to defend myself from the poors, my right to deny health insurance to people, to work like a robot with no vacation, to use the imperial system, or with a huge SUV with the balls attached to the hook and stickers everywhere praising Jesus. Public transport is for losers and bla..african americans. And if you don't agree with me, you are a faggot communist atheist arrogant asshole, and we will bring you democracy, if we can find your country on the map.

This is the public image your country gives abroad. A cult of the excess, with-us-or-against-us, no appreciation and knowledge of the outside world, no wisdom of the past or appreciation of cultural advancement, a highly stressful and unequal society that gives you back in return just a bunch of soon to be worthless paper money.

Deal with it.

>Except, for some reason ,those Europeans who have posted in this very thread saying the exact opposite of what you're saying based on their own personal interactions with Americans. Crazy how that works.

Sampling. My sampling is different from their sampling. Again, deal with it.

> How have you not realized by now that your books, news, media, stories, and brief interactions at work with Americans can only paint a broad picture? GO OUTSIDE, SEE THE WORLD FOR YOURSELF.

I see the world myself, thank you very much. Yet, we europeans never really felt the need to make a movie called "idiocracy".

> I've traveled the world and know more about it than you can ever hope to learn from your books.

And how much do you know about history, geography, philosophy ?

> You can read about the cherry blossoms in Washington DC or skyscrapers of New York, but can never understand them until you see for yoruself.

Am I supposed to be fascinated by a bunch of skyscrapers ?

>Because some Americans fit into that category, my point remains, there are 300 motherfucking million people here. Do you even know what the word generalization means?

Yes. And again, I am aware you know nothing about basic concepts of statistics.

>I feel bad for you, I really do. You believe the world can be learned about in books. Put the book down and go outside, see the world and form your own opinions.

And what makes you think I didn't do it? Do you talk like you know me? I'm just a nickname. From what you know, I may even live in your city, or have traveled countless countries. What if I did, and I actually lived in the US for an extended period of time, and I still had this opinion? what would you say ?

>Don't waste your time responding with another giant block of text, I won't read it. Not because I'm anti-intellectual or trying to get the last word, but because you've attempted to make your point and so have I, we won't see eye to eye so what's the point?

The point is that the US citizens who don't match my representation of US citizens won't be able to do anything to save the US from those who do match it.

This is actually one of the reasons why i like him, this book is another reason http://www.amazon.com/Our-Last-Best-Chance-Pursuit/dp/0670021717 , am Palestinian living in Jordan and I think he is the best thing that happened to Jordan.