Re: Euro Trash?
I gotta take issue with this.
that particular continent joined the Third World in 1940?
Europe is connected geographically to the third world, but if a United States of Europe were to form I think you Americans would find yourselves playing second fiddle.
I'd vote for the latter. And there may be a way to explain their gloom and doom outlook. The Euros can't feel too good about the fact that TWO world wars were allowed to erupt in their back yards. Ones that the US was called upon to help straighten-out. So by Euro-trash TT hoaxers always telling a story of a US civil war that will devastate us, perhaps it is their twisted version of trying to "even the score" between our continents?
RMT, you don't normally come out with stuff I disagree with, but here, c'mon. I think in WWI, you'll find resoundingly that although you joined the war, the vastly inexperienced and ill-trained american infantry was nought but cannon fodder for the german army. We definitely, beyond all doubt, were the major force in acheiving this victory.
In WWII, your help was a major part in the victory in both pacific and european theatres. We could debate all day on whether your involvement was the 'deciding factor', but I feel it would be disrespectful to the memory of all veterans, so we won't debate this.
After all we have done to help Europe in the past, I find it a bit odd that so many Euros would cheer for a US downfall via civil war. Who will be around to help fix their next problem child?
I personally don't want a US downfall, or civil war, just a national reshaping of morals and education.
After all you have done!?!? We aren't going over the WW's again, so what else have you done? Am I missing some key part of history? Many 'Euros', cheered for the downfall of the British Empire too, its no biggie. But really to the rest of the world, America is a massive time-bomb, threatening to engulf the world in war. Debate this if you want, but I think most, if not all, other nationalities (maybe even elements of your own) will agree that the US is more dangerous to the populace of The Earth than Iran ever will be, or Iraq or Vietnam or where ever the perceived 'Axis of Evil' appears to be.
Maybe its because after all you do and ever will do, most of you are still european's, ethnically, culturally, politically and linguistically. You should really be the 'exiled Euros' or the 'Euros in Denial'.
Here's a measure of the sentiment I should share with you; not my own opinion, but hey. I was recently talking with a French friend who said that there is a nationally murmurred joke about the US. Which basically states that if they could go back and decide not to enter The American War of Independence, then they would not (there is some punch line about what they would give, but I can't remember it). The significance? Well without France joining the war, Holland and Spain would never have done so, and you would not have won your independence at that time.
GS
