i appreciate it.

i actually do enjoy getting into politics… i just tend to get “passionate”, which is why i stayed out of the last thread.

America became great because of Europe’s ability to destroy itself. Capitalism also helped.

And I’m 99% sure that come January we wont be the United Socialist States of America, despite all your misguided hatred and fear.

And I’m a history major, so yeah I probably know a thing or too about history. :)

Don’t be thick.

these countries have rejected their Socialistic leanings recently to swing back towards a conservative/capitalistic form of government.

we’ve got our ass-backward things, but in the case of racial harmony, i think we’re far more advanced than the critics might want to acknowledge.

don’t get me wrong — we’ve got alot to do in this country. but for homogenous nations to criticize us when we have problems is overlooking their own challenges of immigration and indigenous disenfranchised citizens.

i love france (i’m a big francophile and french culture student), but they have their own racial problems, just like the US and many euro states do.

1. I think you got the Israel relationship backwards. You would see a US military presence in Israel if this were the case.

But this not a problem unique to America. Britain also jumped on the bandwagon, you cant cite well the public was against it because well…most of the American public is currently against it as well.

China and Russia also have the problem of occupying/invading other sovereign nations. It just doesnt get much play in the world media, which is the point here. Its not right, but its not a uniquely American problem.

2. I dont think we’re not pretending it doesnt exist. Yeah Eruope is now doing the carbon emissions trade off and its a good thing. But again the reason we didnt sign Kyoto is because it didnt apply to China and India, so-called “developing” nations. Its a world problem, and I hope we can all fix this. Again, this is not unique to America.

3. The economy will never be perfect. There will always be booms and busts. But i’d like to say we’re at addressing the issues rather than pretending they dont exist in hopes of staving off a depression rather than a recession. Many European countries are also not fiscally responsible with enormous social spending, and frankly thats not really the US’s fault.

I understand where you’re coming from, and I think Obama is going to do a great job in addressing all these issues. Its just America has the same problems as other countries; they arent simply unique to us.

This decade, 90 percent of continental Africa has been transformed into a Chinese colony to extract natural resources. The Chinese empire, complete with compounds where no non-Chinese are permitted to enter in every major town, has conquered Africa and its people… oh yeah, can’t blame America for that one, poor fuckers are being enslaved again and you wanna whine about us being responsible for sunspot activity.

and I was still on your item #1. And I want to head home and get some dinner.

So a simpler question. Do you believe the world would be more stable, less stable, or no different if the USA did not exist?

With that, I am heading home.

What the hell are you talking about? That makes no sense whatsoever. How is America Israels lap dog? Because Israel is the only country that is democratic in the Middle East? That is complete bullshit. I guess youre just bitter that Israel survived when your British army gave up all their forts and guns and stockades to the Arabs at the end of the Palestine Mandante (hegemony? I think so).
Also, the UN signed off on it, so its not just like America just decided one day “Hey im gonna invade Iraq” and did.
Global warming? Please. Maybe in your small ass narrow european cities you can go from place to place on a train in a few hours, but to get from one end of America to the other takes days if you dont fly. And its not like were not trying to solve the problem. Off shore drilling and alternative fuels arent codewords for “America is #1, control world”. And America is not the only nation that is polluting.
The global impact? Im not really going to get into that because i dont even pretend to know how the hell it works

…old europe can always build “camps” for them…

“Benjamin Disraeli [the man who reformed the modern British Conservative Party in the 19th century] envisioned the Conservative Party as the true national party, while the Whigs were merely the party of intellectual ideas. In that time, English intellectuals and progressives were fascinated with German ideas, just as today Democrats are enchanted with European ideas. Disraeli judged: "In a progressive country, change is constant; and the great question is not whether you should resist change, which is inevitable, but whether that change should be carried out in deference to the manners, the customs, the laws and the traditions of the people or in deference to abstract principles and arbitrary and general doctrines.” By championing the vote for the people in a century in which that was inevitable, Disraeli formed a conservative party that dominated British politics for 150 years."

This written by Tony Blankley at http://www.creators.com/opinion/tony-blankley.html.

I’m just saying I don’t like how much democrats idealize Europe, especially young and older democrats.