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[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by sun-star
America is an incredibly powerful country. If you go to war, or become isolationist, it affects everyone. So we care about you, even if you don't care about us.

Well it's obvious we care about you - if we didn't we wouldn't spend billions in tax dollars to protect you - especially during the cold war.

Given the choice - would you rather have France have it's dream of building a EU controlled by them or deal with America?

I never said that.

Other's have and all any American has to do is watch the 100,00 anti-war "ant-Anmerican" protestors marching in European cities. They say they're not anti-American at the same time as walking around with our flag with a nazi symbol on it - or with our president dressed up as Hitler. I want to see a 100,000 people in ONE European city demontsrate against Hussein instead of sending a busload of "Human Shields" to protect that tyrant.

I wasn't implying that to you specifically at all (if only English had a plural for "you"!). If you hated Europeans I don't suppose you would be replying to me. You're allowed to care more about America than Europe - I certainly care most about Britain, since it's my home I was just suggesting that intolerance and prejudice can go both ways across the Atlantic. Americans are not the innocent victims of the evil prejudices of other nationalities. They can be as annoying as the French sometimes. So can the British, even I admit that

I admit there are ignorant Americans. People who didn't know how the election process actually worked and then complained about it is one example. But most Eropeans don't realise how large our country is - it is larger than Europe. I mapped out where I would have lived in Europe by comparing the distances of all the places I have lived in the US. I have basically lived in London, Belgium, Germany, Turkey, Sweden and Russia (around the Ural Mountains). Yet Europeans constantly say we don't speak other languages and we don't know passports. I don't need a passport to go to Mexico or to Canada or anywhere in the US. Both the US and Canada are English speaking countries - we don't get a chance to USE our foreign language skills. Don't use it - you lose it. If New York required me to have a passport or they spoke a different language - I would have a passport (although I do because I've been to England) and I would speak New Yorker. In order to go to France from England you still need both of these things.