Originally posted by Hangtime
Nice fantasy.. but sorry, our govenment don't give a rats behind about us as individuals in foriegn countries. In fact, we're pretty much held as laughing stocks around the world.. you can insult us, rob us, behead us, kidnap, rape and kill our women and kids at will anywhere on the planet... but if some SOB comes over here and BOMBS us, well, then; we're gonna get jiggy on some foriegn soil in a helluva hurry.
Hang, an opinion about US government's attitude towards it's citizens is absolutely opposite here.
Five Americans in trouble - and US sends a Tarawa helicopter-carrier with a regiment of Marines to rescue them.
Even in Soviet times we didn't have such an attitude towards our citisens.
In 1991 when we had a "coup" here - I was in a Young Pioneers (soviet version of boy-scouts) camp 100km from Msk, having good time with leaders, 18-20 years old, just as I was. We had an American girl with us, who's host simply dropped her at our "camp" because he got tired of speaking English. She really helped us in that lack of information that lasted for 3 days: we had a short-wave radio, but all stations broadcasting in Russian and English (!!!) were jammed, so we tuned to some French station, and she translated what she understood to English, and I voiced it in Russian.
Most of us seriously expected a US helicopter to fly over our "camp" to rescue her.