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2008-03-26 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Mike 2008-03-26 08:31|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 'The American military is the greatest force for peace in the world. I couldnt believe it."

Western and Central Europe has experienced the longest period of peace since the Roman Empire and they can't connect the dots. The only ground the American military has asked to keep for their work is a place to bury their dead. All others have been on lease and we're already packing to come home.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-03-26 09:38|| 2008-03-26 09:38|| Front Page Top

#2 The first colonies, the ones whose inhabitants came in the Mayflower proposed something who was completely different to everything else in Europe (and to the Spanish/Portuguse colonies) and very subversive to Europe's social order: free commoners taking charge without need for supervsion by their "betters" ie aristocrats. Since then European rulers (1) have done their utmost to denigrate America out of fear of their "peasants" getting bad ideas. In this they have
succeeded far too well aided by the raise of socialist ideas (and the natural hate of socalists for "ultracapitalist" America) but also the good old jealousy of the slave towards the freed or escaped slave. Europeans hate you and this has little or nothing to do with GW Bush.

(1) You only have to take a look at European societies or remeber about how teh European Constitution has been adopted in a disguised form called "simplified treaty" despite the crushing defeat in France and Netherlands referendums to
understand that european "democracies" are designed for keeping the people as fr away as possible of power and obedioent to their betters

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-03-26 10:35|| 2008-03-26 10:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Americans are citizens.

Europeans (whether they realize it or not) are subjects.

'Nuff said.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-03-26 11:36|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-03-26 11:36|| Front Page Top

#4 As an explanation, over 1500 years of war in Europe left pretty much everyone with a harshly realistic and pessimistic view of the world. The idealism and optimism were pretty much burned out of them, except in small pockets, here and there.

America, by contrast, is positively bulging with realism and optimism. At our founding, we were not burdened with government-institutional state religion, so our national goals are set by "We the People", not heaven. And our extraordinary optimism is tempered only by our small enclaves of idealistic pessimists in New England.

But being realistic optimists gives us a big advantage over the Europeans, in that we are more objective about the rest of the world.

If we see a problem develop, we act quickly, instead of letting it fester until it spirals out of control. Europeans say that we act like "cowboys", for acting soon and forcefully; but the alternative is to wait until it is too late, then respond with nuclear weapons--which is the corner the Europeans have to live in, having painted themselves into it by their inaction.

In Iraq, for example, the English were willing to let the Arabs behave in "the Arab way". But Americans had no preconceptions about Arabs. If they were honest and behaved, they were our friends. If they were dishonest and treacherous, they were our enemies. It didn't matter if they were Sheiks or peasants.

Therefore, the parts of Iraq we controlled are now doing nicely, but the parts the English controlled are still restive and unsettled. Which means the Americans have to go there and do the work the English didn't do.

But that is true to form for Americans, who are the world's policeman out of default, a job that nobody else wants, but has to be done.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-03-26 11:53|| 2008-03-26 11:53|| Front Page Top

#5 The English friend sounds like bog-standard idiot.

Posted by Bulldog 2008-03-26 14:05|| 2008-03-26 14:05|| Front Page Top

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