Quote Originally Posted by Hard View Post
The United States, and all the other registered holders of nuclear arms, have been cleared as nations who will abstain from actually using them. Frankly, i am sick of people comparing us to a barbaric government like the one in Iran.
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I agree with you- no comparison.
I don't like anyone having nukes but I'd far rather the U.S than most others.

Quote Originally Posted by Hard View Post
And you all are ALWAYS blaming the States. Current terrorism? Eh, its the US's fault. Global warming? Blame the States with all their Chevy Silverados and pockets full of cash. You never entertain the idea that your governments are guilty as well. My government got intel. from many of your governments about Saddam's nuclear development programs. But when shit goes sour, you place the blame on #1.
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Rudyard Kipling called it the White Man's Burden, (writing about Amercia in the Philippines I think, interestingly enough.)
Since most of Europe has long given up on great "civilizing " missions, it's pretty much mostly America's burden now:
I'f you're going to be the most powerful and claim the moral highground as well, sorting out the worlds problem areas, you're gonna get blamed for everything even if you do clean the place up a little.

That's the price of being the policeman with the big stick.

Quote Originally Posted by Hard View Post
Dont they assign you your future job when your like 3 or something?
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That's weird.
What Europe was that? The former Societ Bloc?

Never heard of that before and I lived in Europe for ten years- well, that's if you can call the UK Europe.
Sure Europe is maybe a bit more welfare minded, but that doesn't mean it's anti-capitalist. Capitalism was born in Northwest Europe.

The post 1945 Socialist leanings in European governments were partly the result of a continent that had been flattened by a Fascist-instigated war.

Hitler never quite managed to shoot as far as America.