Originally posted by Ann:


ok i will here say something that alot of ppl might dislike me for very much, so if you know you will be one of those, please dont read it. all i want is to be honest, its the way i have been raised.

i think, no matter how much you might hate the united states, you will still feel sorry when innocent ppl have been brutally slaughtered. to be honest, i am not very fond of the united states myself, and if this had been your president that had been killed i really wouldnt have cared so much. if you hate a political system, kill the system. dont go attacking innocent ppl for no reason other than that they live in america.

if this EXACT same attack had happened in say, Iceland, almost no american would even have KNOWN about it and even less cared.
Ann, I'm sorry you feel that way, and I must disagree with you. We see scenes of global devastation on our TV screens often, especially, somehow, European more than African, for example, and do feel sad when tragedies take place, no matter whether they are on foreign soil or not. I am partially of Swedish ancestry, and am sorry you feel that way about the country in which I was born. I, too, was raised to be honest. Just as not all Swedes are blonde Lutherans, I'm sure most Americans do not fit stereotypes you may have heard about them.

Come visit some time, you may like the place or the people better. (I have never been to Sweden, but have friends who go there often.)