Mario Bonassin wrote:>
>As one whose aunt is still missing, I feel that the strong emotions that
>have
>been on this list are justified in many respects. Whatever the US decides
>to
>do we will still be condemed for doing it regardless of whether we're in
>the
>right or not. The problem is that the US is always blamed and never
>thanked.
I do know a few people who'll applaude the US practically whatever it does.
>I recieved this article that points this out.
>
> > TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
[snip]
> > > When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United
> > > States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59
> > > American communities were flattened by tornadoes.
> > > Nobody helped.
Did the US ask for help? Did the US _need_ help? Since we're speaking about
the richest country in the world, one could think they'd have the resources
to sort out things like these by themselves.
> > >
> > > The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped
> > > billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now
> > > newspapers in those countries are writing about the
> > > decadent, warmongering Americans.
The Marshall Plan also improved America's strategic position, so one could
doubt that the motive wasn't only humanitarian (altho' the fact that the
Soviet Union was offered help suggests that humanitarianism played a large
part). As for war-mongering, I seem to remember that the USA started a war
against Yugoslavia a couple of years ago?
> > >
> > > I'd like to see just one of those countries that is
> > > gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar
> > > build its own airplane. Does any other country in the
> > > world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the
> > > Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why
> > > don't they fly them? Why do all the International
> > > lines except Russia fly American Planes?
What about Airbus? While they've not (yet) built anything as big as a Jumbo,
they do have decent chunk of the world market. And I'm told that Brazilian
Embraer has become a big supplier of smaller commercial aircraft.
And let's not mention that Hungary recently prefered a Swedish jet fighter
to the F16.
> > >
> > > Why does no other land on earth even consider putting
> > > a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese
> > > technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German
> > > technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about
> > > American technocracy, and you find men on the moon -
> > > not once, but several times and safely home again.
Safely? "Apollo 13" must've been less historically accurate than I thought
... But as far as space exploration goes, I'd say Mir beats up anything seen
this far.
[snip]
And no, I don't consider myself anti-American, but I'm SLIGHTLY tired of
hearing what a nice country the USA is over and over again.
Andreas
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