Katy,
You don't have to be a world traveler to know much of what's going on in the world, especially things in boldface print like most of everyone in Europe thinking Bush is scary crazy.
Yes, we are spouting opinions here, but we're also engaging in an international dialogue, and that's a good thing.
With "not my problem" thinking, the trouble is that any problem worth speaking of is generally a Gordian Knot you could devote your life to unraveling and still not solve. And most often the solutions folk try to apply spawn even more problems, cf. Iraq. Or trying to get prisoners to talk by applying urine to holy books.
It's also rather a catch 22: Anything you do that would upset people enough to get them to break is also something that can get the same sort of people to riot.
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