"uncle arnie" wrote

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 03:02 pm -0600 UTC, Jack Painter
posted: %MM


The United States of America is the most powerful country in the world.
In
all the countries the United States has sacrificed our men and women to
free from the binds of tyranny, the most land we have ever asked for is
enough land to bury our dead. Some empire.

And free access to their markets.

Yes that's right Arnie, thank you. We expect that all nations should have
free access to all markets, and that's one of the most difficult principles
that we struggle to maintain. It benefits all countries and all people when
there is agreement on this.

The US also has had the unfortunate
practice of putting into power and propping up repressive dictatorships,
to
keep their market share and access to raw materials and commodities.

No argument there either, we are no better at nation building than our worst
fears sometimes, because you cannot impose honesty, morality, or pride in
accomplishment of self improvement when it is not there. It either exists in
a country and their people or it doesn't. When it's lacking, as it is all
over the arab world, only a dictator or King who rules like a dictator can
mend the store. That's so sad to admit that most of the world's people are
such non-thinkers, immoral, and incapable of self-preservation that only
when ruled by a dictator can they keep from eating themselves. But it's true
and no exaggeration. So it's no embarassment for the United States to have
propped up dictators or Ayatollahs or Kings, it will continue to happen well
into this century I'm sure. When someday, enough of the world has some basic
education and morality of living without eating their young or those of
their neighbors, then there will be effective nation building possible of
people like the arabs. Until then, it's just a game of keeping their sharp
tools away from them until they can play nice like the rest of the civilized
world. And face it, no United Nations bunch of pansies that the rest of the
whole world could put together could *ever* do what the U.S. and Britain do
for this world. We occassionally have other allies, but none who could match
the ability or commitment of which I speak. This world that tries very hard
to spin itself into the ground without constant attention, and sorry but
Americans do not feel it is our job to do that for you. When we must, it is
becasue it protects *our* interest to do so. We are not making sacrifices
for your benefit to be squandered on socialist ideologies that seek to
destroy the very tenets of our existence. Your freeticket to experiment with
such socialist governments is over on our watch and our paying the way for
you to do it. If you want to self-destruct (again) be our guest. But don't
expect us to care what you think of our hard working countrymen who want
even less to do with you than I could politely describe.

The
world has progressed since WW2, for which everyone was truly grateful for
American help after two years of devestation. But it is hard to sell the
goodness of America based on that to people born 30 or 40 years after it
ended.

Being friends with America never cost any country anything, and benefits
most more than any other friendship could ever provide them. And consider
the history of our enemies.

Why is the Euro stronger than the US dollar? Europe is expanding the EU,
they are in the midst of the most prosperous period since the 1960's. The
EU is the largest economic block in the world for population and will
have
a larger GDP and the US within the decade. They are also allowing people
to be individuals and make free choices versus dictating morality based on
narrow religious or 19th century morality. The future of Europe looks very
bright, with past conflicts on the continent disappearing.

Now I'm having a good laugh at that question. What exactly, is a "Euro"
worth? What backs it up again? Oh, nothing? That's right, it's the paper of
a non-entity, non-country, non-people, non-military capable boundry,
non-ownership of anything, oh yes - it's a make believe world in which
peoples who hate each other and have fought since the beginning of time, all
got together and pretended they could best America (as opposed to *joining*
her, God forbid). Well we'll see how far this experiment goes. Let's just
agree to stay tuned on this one ok Arnie?

Have a nice night,

Jack