Which of these countries you feel threaten YOUR life?

[IceBlaZe]

Since the former poll is lost in a many long posts and long many posts of arguments regarding semantics and the actual understanding of the question, I feel a new, different, yet clear poll is in order.

World peace is a vague and quite moot concept.
Yet, there's nothing much confusing about whether someone feels threatened physically by a certain country or not. And I think this poll will be more to the point and less lost in semantic battles..

Exact same choices, for comparison...

 

[SeleucusNicator]

I voted Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, and France.

 

[IceBlaZe]

Who selected all of the countries?

 

[Pontiuth Pilate]

The country with the greatest chance of killing me is my own.

Even though my threats from nuclear countries are virtually nil, I marked them as well. As for terrorist nations like Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Pakistan, they pose no threat whatsoever to me personally.

If I lived in New York or another big city, I'm sure I'd vote differently.

 

[EzInKy]

I don't feel personally threatened by any of them, so where is the "none" answer?

 

[IceBlaZe]

"None" is not necessary. If you don't feel threatened by any, don't vote for any.

 

[andvruss]

Wheres Canada as an option?

 

[amadeus]

Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. Each one of these countries is run by a thug that seeks to destroy the West, either directly or those that put on a smiley face for diplomats (Saudi Arabia.)

 

[IceBlaZe]

I said the options are exactly the same for comparison with the original poll...

 

[ybbor]

well, i voted for all the countries w/ nukes, china france india israel pakistan russia UK (i would have voted US, but since i live there i didn't but now that i think about it..........

 

[Tassadar]

Originally posted by EzInKy
I don't feel personally threatened by any of them, so where is the "none" answer?

Same here. My life is only threatened by car or smoke, i smoke too much.

 

[Shadylookin]

my choices would be Canada, Mexico, US, middle east, and china

Canada and Mexico because we share such open long extensive borders we can't even keep out poor imigrants looking for a job/healthcare if anyone should actually put in some time and money in planning terrorist could just come in by the thousands.

US, because i live here and any big screw ups that happends will effect my life.

Middle east because that seems to be where most of the people hate us and want to kill us come from.

I picked China because it has problems with tiawan and should they ever do anything I imagine the US will do something to possibly endanger my life

 

[Archer 007]

Russia anc China. The rest are too weak to do crap.

 

[Tassadar]

Originally posted by andvruss
Wheres Canada as an option?

Why? Are you a canadian seaking choptlifter pilots ?

Hindsight: they are about 50 year old and fell apart.

 

[Comraddict]

wow! No innocent countries as of now. Make me believe you forgot to include some

 

[EzInKy]

Originally posted by IceBlaZe
"None" is not necessary. If you don't feel threatened by any, don't vote for any.

I disagree. Changing the poll parameters made "none" an absolutely necessary option because unless you are in a country currently under direct attack you are in more danger of dying in an accident than being killed by any on the list. Guess I'll just check them all as did some others.

 

[Mr. Dictator]

were Switzerland?

evil bastards have me looking over my shoulder and never leaving without a gun

there after me

[paranoia/]

 

[Marla_Singer]

Quite funny... "Seleucus" feels his life to be threatened by France.

I imagine his idea is that France, because it didn't support the war on Iraq, isn't fighting against terrorism. Why americans have that idea printed in their head that making war in Iraq was a way to prevent them from terrorism ? Actually, I think quite the opposite... !

Actually, the funniest thing is that two intelligence services warned the US of a possible fundamentalist attack on the american soil : The Mossad (Israel), the DGSE (France).

Now, outside of the muslim world, which countries had suffered the most of fundamentalist terrorism before the Sept. 11th ?

1. Israel
2. France
3. Russia (and former Soviet Union)[/list=1]Actually, France had been on the list of the "disliked by the fundamentalists" for a long time now. It began actually in 1986 with the bombing on the "Rue des Rosiers" (a street in Paris known to be peopled by many jews). I remember that after the fundamentalist bombings in Paris from 1995 to 1997, an american guy visited me and had obviously never heard at all about "muslim fundamentalist attacks" before he arrived in Paris.
   
   Actually, just after the Sept. 11th, many bombings had been avoided in France including one in the US Embassy in the week just after the Sept. 11th. The most frightening ones that were planned were actually about a bomb in the Gare du Nord (a train station where 250,000 people are transiting each day), the University of Paris Jussieu (A University where work 80,000 students, teachers and researchers which is just beside the Arab World Institute), Notre Dame (actually it was just a gas bomb like the one who had exploded in Paris Subway from 1995 to 1997), and the Eiffel Tower (we just found drawings about trucks filled of explosives being stuck to some of the pillars).
   
   Saying France don't know a thing about fundamentalist terrorism is a bit like saying George W. Bush doesn't believe in God : it's inherently wrong once you know a bit the characters.
   
   Actually, terrorism is the main reason why I didn't support the war. Why ?
   1. Because Bush did exactly what the fundamentalists wanted him to do. They were saying since the end of the 80's America hated arabs and Bush finally gave a proof they were right.
   2. After Saddam being out of power, it was clear the country would be a mess where everything could happen.
   3. There's a strong stuggle in the arab opinion about which side should they support, the fundamentalists or the western world. A war against an arab country was the best way to make them choose the fundies' side.
   4. Instead of declaring war to the fundamentalists (as it was the case in Afghanistan), here we were declaring war to the arabs.[/list=1]Moreover, I should add something. Most of arabs are sunni. People supporting the US in Iraq right now are either sunni kurds (not arabs) or chia arabs (not sunni). Sunni arabs (from the famous "triangle") are actually the people representing the most people in the arab world as a whole.
      
      Of course, now that the war has been done, there was no reason to be opposed to it. At the opposite, if I were Chirac I would have done everything to make it succesful (in France own interests). Well Chirac couldn't suddenly say : "forget about WMD ! we go ! wait for me Bush !" so it was quite harder to do so in a realistic point of view. Actually, Chirac had sent a nuclear carreer cruising in the eastern mediterranean sea to join war in case Saddam were using WMD's against the US (Even if we're sure to be right, we must always be prepared in case we were wrong). As Saddam didn't use its WMD's when "his" country was invaded, it didn't happen.
      
      Now about the threat against my life. I've picked the USA because Bush will certainly be re-elected and we never know what can come up in his mind then . I've also picked Pakistan since the ISI (Pakistani Intelligence) is actually controlled by the fundamentalists, just like the Pakistani Army... and it quite sucks once we know we're talking about a nuclear power.
      
      By the way, a french journalist made a great investigation book about who killed Daniel Pearl. It's been really interesting to read and we learn a lot more about how Pakistan works ("Who has killed Daniel Pearl ? from Bernard-Henry Levy). Another good book but a bit outdated now is "I've seen ending the Ancient World" from Alexandre Adler. It's a bit outdated since it's been written just after the September 11th and that now many things had changed (Turkey, Afghanistan, Iraq, Near East, mainly). I'm waiting his next book .

 

[andvruss]

Originally posted by Tassadar


Why? Are you a canadian seaking choptlifter pilots ?

Hindsight: they are about 50 year old and fell apart.

Exactly! How did you know? say what?

 

[cgannon64]

Al Qaeda. No real countries.

Maybe the US is the only other one, since I'd be draftable in 4 years, but I highly doubt it.