Gaijin Gigolo,
Don't waste your time defending the USA to the anti Americans on the board. It is to be expected. They will just laugh at your 'misplaced patriotism' and national pride. I first encountered this anti Americanism on my first trip to Mexico and Central American a million years ago. My buddy and I hit many beaches from Mazatlan to Salinas and spent a month in Panajachel before eventually making it to Costa Rica. It was a great 6 month trip and we met lots of interesting people. I fucked a lot of backpacker chicks back then from the USA, Canada, UK, France and Switzerland as well as shagging a few P4P locals. As far as P4P, San Jose was the best scene, far better than anything in Mexico. We used to hit the clubs an hour before closing and arrange to meet the chicas later. I never paid for sex in San Jose on that first trip.
Anyway, we made a lot of friends and partied a lot. But even among our friends, there was this anti American bias that they would get into if the conversation drifted that way. I would ask some of these people, 'hey, I'm an American, you know this; why are you insulting my country. I am not insulting your country'. And it was like a deer in headlights. They just did not get it. Euros and Canadians are so used to reading and seeing anti American BS in their left wing elite media and universities that they just take it as a given. They are unaware of their bias; it is embedded so deep in their national political psyche. Americans are fed this non ending left wing anti American propaganda too. Hell, we even have an anti American president, Barack Hussein Obama, going around the world apologizing for our country. It is unbelievable. I started out as a lefty when I was young and just out of school, but as I traveled and saw more of the world close hand, I started appreciating the good old' USA and yes, what it is has done for the world I. E. Rescued millions from totalitarianism. I began to read Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman and learned Capitalism is not so bad after all. That maybe these supposed well meaning, left wing, political ideologies don't deliver the prosperity or fairness they purport to be all about. I would now describe myself an economic conservative and a social libertarian as well as a proud American.
A lot of people have written America off. They think we are in decline. Maybe so, but I wouldn't count us out just yet. We have a tremendous capacity to bounce back. In 4 or 5 years the USA may be oil independent. Think about that naysayers; no more imports from Saudi Arabia. But, if the USA were to fall, what then? The relatively intelligent people who naively believe the world will be a better place amaze me. Example #1: right now radical Islam is on the march. They have declared war on Western Civilization. The left will not acknowledge this fact, but how else do you explain Islam's bloody borders everywhere in the world. It is not just Palestine, but Nigeria, Sudan, Egypt, Libya, India, PI, Thailand, and it is growing in European cities. Arab spring, give me a break. This is a descent into radical totalitarianism. Some Euros are beginning to wake up to the war, but not the left anti-American Elites still running the European media and many governments there and not even the US State Department. Norway and Sweden are the most notable Islamic apologists. My point is when push comes to shove, it is going to be the USA that will be called on to defend Western Civilization with some help from our allies. This paragraph should get a lot of ridicule from the lefties.
Gaijin, we have gotten a long way off the subject of poontang in Asia. Let it go. You or I are not going to persuade anybody who does not see it our way. Time will convice many of the merit of our point of view. In the meantime, keep in mind that along with all the perks of being an American is the burden of putting up with the lefties, be they Americans themselves or western Europeans and Canadians. It goes with the territory. I would not have it any other way. Funny how America's closest friends are countries just freed from slavery or on the front lines with radical Islam. Liberal Western Europeans seem to want to forget WW2, the Marshall plan and the Cold War. They don't like to be reminded that without the USA, France for instance, would be slave state under the control of the Soviet Union. The USA is far from perfect. It has a lot of problems, but if not for the USA, I probably would not have been born, so yes, I am red, white and blue through and through and proud of it. I may prefer to live and monger in South Asia, but my home will always be the USA.