Although I can empathize with this guys frustration......it's been a while since I have read anything quite as ignorant or blatantly ethnocentric as that little rant.

First off, to start ragging on other nations because the war in Iraq isn't going well doesn't seem fair when you stop to consider that the American people can't agree amongst themselves whether or not they should be there at all.

Secondly, "It is time for America to focus on its own welfare and its own citizens. " Puh-lease!!! It's exactly because American (as well as most other Western Nation's ) foreign policies focus on their own welfare ,usually to the detriment of others, that people are driven to the position of feeling that Western civilization DESERVES to be a target for their terrorist acts. Clearly nobody deserves to be a victim of terrorism, but you have to ask yourself WHY does this person/group/culture believe that we are the "great Satan"???? Little George dubb-ya's claims of an "Axis of Evil" seem a little weak to me. How can thousands of people in a geographical area have all just been born evil. More over how can we as people of conscience not look at ourselves to at least explore the possibility that we have contributed to this situation?

And finally, "A special note to our northern neighbors. CANADA is on List 2. Since we are likely to be seeing a lot more of each other, you folks might want to try not pissing us off for a change." I suggest the ignorant individual who wrote that little gem take a little trip to Afghanistan and check out the rather large contigent of Canadian soldiers still hunting for Osama along with the American soldiers. I suggest he read some history books and remember the fact that it was the Canadians who were the first over the fence to jump to the aid of Europe in WWII.
More importantly I suggest he remember that if you claim to be fighting for Democracy around the globe, you are not allowed to have these little hissy fits and start punishing your neighbors when they disagree with you and your policies. A democracy in which you are only allowed to choose the path set before you is called a dictatorship. Was this guy advocating America as dictator of the world???

Sorry, it's been a long week and I am feeling a little pissy. I have nothing against Americans but sometimes I get tired of being flogged by "America" as a cultural ideal.