>>I agree here, too, generally. Where I disagree is that I don't think trade or making American brands coveted will remove the "Great Satan" label as that comes from a different mentality. I mean, look, there are crowds in the streets of Middle Eastern cities burning the American flag while sipping Coke and wearing Nikes.
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>Why do you think 'great satan' is comming from 'mentality' ? Do you actually think that young Palestinians or Iraqees or some other crowds burn American flag because they envy your sunday BBQ? Nothing to do with US foreign policies at all ?


Now let's be fair. The U.S. is guilty of many things, and its policies are often more a tragedy than anything else with or without good intentions. IMHO, The U.S. needs to pull out of every country everywhere and keep its $ and its people at home. When a country lets any business, such as McDonalds, in the door though, that is the fault of the country which lets it in and not the U.S. However, most of those who are out there burning the U.S. flag and becoming suicide bombers or planting IEDS are doing it 1: for the money, 2: because a religious leader told them they should and filled their minds with extremist ideology.

One, if not the, of the most basic and common causes of terrorism is poverty. If world poverty were eradicted, then terrorism and extreme ideologies will trickle down to almost nothing.