Do most Americans feel Canada hasn't helped enough in the war on terrorism?
604088
say, ya'know...that is grounds to invade you. 'if youre not with us, youre against us'.
913650
Well because Yankee tourists are so in your face, think they know everything and tell you what to do.   And like a lot of other Canadians we don't like their government, that kills millions of innocent people, threaten to pollute our Red River with one of their polluted rivers, we don't like the fact they are trying to build a wall against us-how neighbourly is that? Canadians don't believe they get any respect from the U.S. We feel like they are sneering at us just because we allow same sex marriage and for the most part marijuana is legal. Also we don't have the first Amendment that every one person is required to be armed to the teeth.
435911
riddsridds i feel the same way  they will take from canada, let them seperate who cares anyways.\ncanadianphatkid@hotmail.com
999463
Sad to say, but I think America is probably one of the greatest problems this world is facing.\n\nIt's not terrorists.. jeeze krapoleze. They've been around forever, it's only America that has stirred them up with our corporate greed and the Bush Administration.\n\nTerrorists.. they are the ones with the nasty nuclear bombs. right? I don't think most Americans know how many nuclear warheads we ourselves have!!!\n\nWe have over 5,000 ACTIVE nuclear warheads in our possession! almost 10,000 in total. WTF do we need with 10,000 nuclear warheads?!?! freaking good grief. In the past three years, we've killed thousands.. whoze the terrorists? I'm losing track. I support the troops, but I don't support the decision maker.\n\nAside from the war crud.. we have the power (resources) to be the most powerful nation around. But we use it in what I feel are the wrong ways. I mean come on, we're taxed beyond belief and yet our school systems, public transportation, healthcare is freaking out of control, good freaking bloody hail! We spend more money and resources on military than all other countries put together. And where do you think all that money is going? Who's pocketing the profits? Big freaking corporations. If we just took 5% of the military spending and put it into the other issues, we could be finding cures and helping those that need it. We have starving people, homeless people right here. 5% cut in military is not going to stop our country from defending ourselves from attacks and whatnot.\n\nI think being proud to be an American is more difficult for every American to say anymore. We consume a gigantic percentage of the worlds resources as compared to our population.  That's sickening in itself. I watch the learning channel where they rip up perfectly good household kitchens - throw it in the dump - and make new kitchens just because it's more visually appealing. We're so dam spoiled rotten it's sick. We buy groceries and throw half of it away when it spoils. We build mansions for one person to live in. We buy brand new appliances because the corporations make it too expensive to fix the old ones. Things last 5 years instead of 50. How long do you think things would last if we required the corporations to take back the appliances and cars after their life cycle was up to recycle the goods? SUVs are used primarily for moving one person to and from work and everywhere else. The Hummer? \n\nMoney / corporate greed have become the American way - that's the primary problem with respect to everything. And most of it revolves around our judicial system. When you award millions of dollars to one person for a spilt cup of coffee, it's screwed.\n\nI asked a person who moved here.. does she like it better here or from the third world developing nation she came from.. she had to think for quite a while. That's pathetic. We get the same score as a third world nation? When I ask why... her response was "here it's nuts. all the rules and regulations and people winning crazy lawsuits.. at least in my country you can live your life."\n\nI don't think America is seeing the changes we're going through and what we could be doing to the entire world. We're just going through life.. day by day.. the American throw-away society. Throwing away our freedoms, throwing away our rights, and throwing away our future so we can live the now.
316795
I disagree.  Try living in Afghanistan or some other country on the same level.  Just pack your bags and go live there for a while.  Go live in one of the villages and try to walk around like you do in the USA.  You'll see some terrorism, all right. You'll know what it's like to feel terror from some of the fanatical people there. You have no idea how very, very lucky you are to live in a free democracy.  The US is helping people get something like a decent life in other countries, and trying to make it safe for women and children.  How can you think of running down something that stands out as so wonderful when compared to the way others live?  No, I'm not American.  But I admire your Constitution and wish all Americans would value what they have.
342514
We've tried fighting terrorism, but started a war against the wrong people, we'd like to think we're more secure, but we aren't, and we've generally upset the world community.  Our economy is plunging and there is a great unrest among Americans and the world against America.  Our government doesn't seem to do anything right and now they have the lowest approval ratings in history.  Basically, the US is going to hell in a handbasket.  So much so that I want to go live in Canada or Australia...and I'm a US Veteran.
1016771
I am very disturbed by what is going on in Canada.  On the one hand, they stopped these specific people.  But, on the other, they refuse to even mention that these are muslims engaged in Jihad against their country and ours.  They were let in by Canada's wacky immigration policies (another fact they are trying to cover up) and the resulting hostile population they have in their midst who, having no intention or desire to assimilate, have EVERY intention of overthrowing their government and murdering and enslaving the Canadians.  They better wake up to what is happening and do something about it.\n\nI fear greatly for them.
1126763
Do you really think it's necessary? I don't, I think upholding our freedoms and civil liberties is pretty important, and worth the risk by most people's reckoning, I think the best way to fight terrorism is to have better control on who/what comes and goes in or out of our country, and not to do business with countries that give the money to support that garbage in the first place...oil's an issue in this question, and if more people were cognizant of the relationship between pressure on the throttle and money flowing to countries that support this kind of thing, I'll bet a lot of people would drive a lot slower....but, at the end of the day, there's people that don't like America, for whatever reason, and I'd just as soon see better border controls to keep em out. Including the airports...
459489
It depends on the type of activity influenced by Americans!\n\nIf it is Inspirational self help such as Anthony Robbins or Chicken soup for The Soul books or Environmental Consciousness, it's a good thing! However, if it's the destructive lyrics of Rap or loose morals, Canadians should be concerned!
478253
Because Canada is known as a friendly country and they don't have tons of enemies like the Americans do.  Most other countries hate America.
1024560
People say "because they cant be trusted with them!", which is ridiculous. I dont expect they think we can be trusted with them either! \n\nWe are not the world police!\n\nI am sick and tired of Americas "DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO" attitude. Its incredibly patronising and shows a blatent lack of respect for other nations.....which, by the way, is exactly what spurs the terrorists on in the first place.
519646
Sir, some terrorists hate freedom. Some fight for it. What ever their objective is, any form of terrorism is plain bad as it means as the name implies - gianing ground through terror. Holland, Canada and Sweden do not help organisations such as terrorist groups in direct ways. But US does. When ever a country elects someone we do not like (like Chilie, like Nicaragua, like Cuba) we fund people to destroy that establishment and therefore denying their democratic right. We also bomb countries with leaderships that are not selling us oil. That is why Amenricans are hated by all smaaler countries. Israel - where I believe Jews do have a rightful claim to the land - we help them despite of atrocities and despite of the obvious fact that they STEAL LAND that belong to Arabs. Jews and Arabs are cousins, even according to the Bible. But to steal from one cousin to give the other...... mainly because we are bullied by Jewish lobby and we need a controlling factor in Middle East is something all US presidents will have to answer the God when their name is called to justify their actions. \n\nNow you know why we are so hated and bombed by peoples around the world. I have, for reasons of brevity, left off VietNam - where many died on both sides in the battle to stop communists from taking over. Just one question though. WHAT WERE THE COMMUNISTS TAKING OVER? Answer is IT WAS FROM FRENCH COLONIAL RULE - SOMETHING WE ACTIVELY ENCOURAGED bcoz we need to have other people exploited. No religious man with ANY rightousness shall condone imperialism - ALAS, WE THE WORLD POLICE OF FREEDOM.......... God bless America.
714061
Because some, not all, think that they actually run the world (see the Project for the New American Century for specifics).  I find most Americans to be wonderful people but some, mostly those in powerful positions, speak to the world in a condescending manner which sadly reflects badly on all Americans.  \nBTW, I am Canadian myself and although I understand your sarcasm vis a vis the tax and policing the world, it really wasn't a very good analogy.  \n\nCheers to Cute Fuzzy Kitty
1038825
i am very concerned since I live in Canada and there was a recent arrest made and is all over the news that these terrorists were planning to hit government buildings. I cried my eyes out on 911 when it happened to the States. It was such a disaster and senseless cruel killing by terrorists. What did the people that they killed do to them anyway? What did the intended targets in Canada do to them? These terrorists were raised and lived in Canada. We have been raised in a Peaceful/Peacekeeping country. We don't even have the death penalty here.
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- May not be...!\n- Because Canada has closer ties with America.\n- Its also fall in belt of Hardline Christian Causes which insult, paralyze, and destabilize the regions of Islamic countries and middle east.\n- So there is very little to hope so.\n----------------
511173
I am not American, I am Canadian and very proud of that fact.\n\nThere are things I admire and envy about the USA< but then on the other side there are also things I do not appreciate or admire. This war in Iraq is one of them...\n\nI think it was a huge mistake to go in and do what they have done. The civilian casualties are such a shame!
621003
Well it is nice to see Americans saying nice things about us.\n\nTo be honest, the last war between Canada and the US was fought in 1812.  Most Americans do not remember this war, but for us it is very important.\n\nYou need to remember that this was only 40 years after the Americans revolted against England.  Loyalists were persecuted and fled the US for their lives and had to resettle in a colder harsher climate.  Canada was still an English colony, and a large number of Americans were immigrating to get free land in the west.\n\nAt the time, Napolean was have a great time in Europe conquering countries and England was fighting for its life.  They were halting shipping and trade with France to try and put them at a disadvantage and losing sailors to desertion and death.  Americans still had a British accent and some Americans were pressed into British Naval service because they were "perceived" as deserters...\n\nRemember too that the US was not the superpower as it is now.  It was a backwater little country of no importance to countries like Germany, France and England.\n\nBecause the US had no navy or troops to speak of back then, rather than taking the fight to England which would be suicide, they felt that Canada would be an easy target.  They're cut off from England, 1/10 the population, most of them were Americans anyway.  So in democratic fashion, they elected officers, each state voted whether to participate or not, and off to war they went.\n\nThey were surprised.  First we had Sir General Isaac Brock who prepped the south western part of Ontario for an attack and the Americans found Canadians waiting.  Second we had Tecumseh and his army.  They were pushed out the US and found a home here in Canada.  They helped big time with support and scouting and raiding American territory.\n\nThirdly, we just didn't want to become Americans.  Colonist volunteers swelled the ranks of the British regulars as well as providing food and support.\n\nThe Americans were stunned as they did not expect to meet this kind of resistance.  British and Canadians occupied Detroit for the duration of the war, plus occupied some islands and settlements in New York and Vermont.\n\nThe Americans burned York (now Toronto) to the ground, British and Canadians set fire to Washington.\n\nCanadians and Americans were bitter enemies for almost 70 years after the war.\n\nTo answer your last question, Canada was never occupied by any foreign power.  We simply gave back what we took.\n\nWe've managed up until WWI to say out of Americna power abuse because we were members of the British Commonwealth.  After WWII we work together with the Americans in joint defence.  They recognize that we are an independant sovereign country and respect this.