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When ignorance not bliss: US politicians without borders
Published: 02 February, 2012, 09:35
U.S. Rep Michele Bachmann (R-MN) speaks at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, California (Reuters / Robert Galbraith)
TAGS: Conflict, Election, Military, Scandal, Politics, Human rights, USA, Education
Every four years, as another US presidential election comes around, along comes a new batch of candidates with dodgy foreign policy credentials. Their blunders have inspired endless jokes, but they also discredit America in the eyes of the world.
From Palin’s famous: “You can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska,” to Michele Bachmann’s public support for waterboarding, some US politicians demonstrate a lack of basic knowledge of geography and international law.
RT’s correspondent Marina Portnaya reports on just how far this ignorance can spread, and what can be done to curb its tragic outcomes.
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@The Monk
Switch on your sarcasm detector before reading this:
Hey yeah you are so much more free than rest of us. Evil nations hate you, because you are free. Thank you, four your existence, you are making this planet so much better.
Maybe things like this are reason for more and more people asking themselves who really runs USA. It can't be these ignorant mumblers.
Some people are blaming "anti-USA forces" in comments, for what is only a pure lack of general knowledge in geography and daily politics, presented by those USA politicians. Those people are payed to deal with geopolitical questions on daily bases. Guess whats "geo" in "geopolitical"...
What do you think if, for example, civil engineer couldn't tell difference between a bridge and a tunnel, or if some surgeon couldn't tell difference between a heart and a pancreas?
It really speaks a lot about your logical apparatus if you blame messenger, an not the perpetrator.
Quite agree Mussolini....let the third world ripped off unemployed dumbed down Zionist-controlled morons in America carry on thinking they are free.
Soon enough they will be desperate and poor enough to start listening to what Hitler had to say!
But the Jews are in total control by now! Until the fools get themselves "finally" wiped out in their beautifully fascist Israel? Or the West wakes up to find the Chinese running the World?