France

[Clarkmeister]

When was the last time these clowns won a war? I think the land was called Gaul the last time that happened. How in the world do they continue to exert such influence in world politics?

[Glenn]

I for one am not a fan of the French. My Israel-Palestine peace plan is as follows, perhaps you will like it [img]/forums/images/icons/smile.gif[/img] :

Give the Pals Israel. They want it badly and they are allied with the rest of the region. The removal of the Israelis would release a lot of tension.

Give the Israelis France. It is bigger than their current country and is nicer too. They've earned it.

Send the French to Greenland or Siberia. Greenland is probably better since then no one has to live next to them. Also, the ocean makes it harder to take over their country. Sure, you might think "who would want icy wasteland?" But someone might do it on principle.

[nicky g]

They're terrible at fighting but who cares. They have the best food and the nicest cities in the world. That'll do for me. They don't dererve the amount of power they have on the world stage but nor does anyone else; no countries should dominate the world, and the US dominated world has not been a nice place to live.

[Jimbo]

"...and the US dominated world has not been a nice place to live." You have got to be kidding me nicky g!!! I wonder if the women in Afghanistan share the same view as you? Or perhaps you'd prefer to live in a world dominated by the Taliban, or the Nazis or for that matter the rude French? Maybe you'd enjoy being a slave to an Egyptian Pharoah or since you're a Brit you might enjoy the Royals ruling your country over a democracy?

[nicky g]

I ain't no Brit. [img]/forums/images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]
Why don't you ask the people of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, El Salvador, Guatamela, Honduras, Angola, Chile, Grenada, Congo, Iran, Iraq, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Palestine and a dozen others if the US-dominated world has been a nice place to live in. While you're at it, ask the Afghanis how much they liked the US-dominated world while the US was supporting the Taliban.

[MMMMMM]

nicky it isn't fair to take US actions out of the Cold War context and just condemn them all as stand-alone incidents. Anyways, the Cold War has ended and we haven't seen the US recently supporting bad regimes to nearly the same extent we did in the past when the Cold War played a major role in geopolitics.

[ripdog]

nicky it isn't fair to take US actions out of the Cold War context and just condemn them all as stand-alone incidents. Anyways, the Cold War has ended and we haven't seen the US recently supporting bad regimes to nearly the same extent we did in the past when the Cold War played a major role in geopolitics.

Exactly why is it not fair? Did these things not happen? Post after post after post, you do your best to pull the USA out of the sewer and put us up on a pedestal. I find your logic horribly flawed. Time after time you admit to wrongdoing by the US, then try to justify it by saying things like "...but we're heads and shoulders above those guys."
"Those guys" usually being some extreme form of government, i.e. China, USSR, Pakistan, North Korea, etc. Maybe we are "heads and shoulders" above those countries. Do you think that's something to be proud of? I can just hear the proud
parent of a prison inmate--"My boy may have raped and killed an 80 year old woman, but he's still better than that Ted Bundy fella". Your predictable jump to the defense of anything American sounds just as ridiculous. By the way, do you have these already? I think you probably do.
Patriotic Blinders

Be careful that you don't step in front of a bus with those things on.

[Rick Nebiolo]

"and the US dominated world has not been a nice place to live."

without the United States the world will recede into a new dark age.

just an opinion perhaps shared by more than a few

~ Rick

[Billy LTL]

without the United States the world will recede into a new dark age.

You have a point Rick but only to a certain extent. I think you should modify your sentence to this:

without the United States some of the world will recede into a new dark age.

A good deal of the inhabitants of our earth are already pretty much familiar with what living in the new dark age really means.

[Rick Nebiolo]

Billy,

Instead of "some of" how about "the rest of" [img]/forums/images/icons/grin.gif[/img]