Militant Islam is at war with the world.
...American is at war - hot or cold - with half the world too.... It seems that ISIS and the USA might find common ground, especially as they use the same weapon systems and arms suppliers....
No, America is not at-war with half the world, hot or cold.
America is merely playing world policeman, for better or worse.
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Then the copper is on the take.
And running his own rackets, while protecting the guilty.
Yes. Britain did spend our treasure in protecting the US East Cost from the Nazi fleet.
Had it not been for us holding Germany back The US would have faced the Japanese from the West Coast and a blockade on the East coast.
Depression American might have gotten a lot more depressed.
You're welcome.
Oh, there's no doubt, that England did good service to the world - for some brief span of time - drawing on the resources that it acquired through centuries of brutal conquest, colonization and oppression, as it acquired, consolidated and exploited the lands of other peoples of the world for its own gain and welfare; rather like a gangster having a change of heart late in life and playing the Good Guy during his later years, while drawing upon his stash of ill-gotten gains to do it.
You stupidly and arrogantly got yourselves into WWI, you bit off more than you could chew, and the USA had to add its weight to the mix, in order to bail your asses out of the fix that you'd gotten yourselves into, after mistakenly thinking that you could bully your way to victory in the 20th, the same way you did in the 17th and 18th and 19th.
You stupidly and naively allowed the viper of Nazi fascism to grow and prosper and to become a danger to yourselves, Europe and the world, because you and the French lacked the balls in the 1920s and 1930s, to crush the head of the viper before it got too big to kill - you stupidly betrayed and allowed friendly and allied European countries to fall before the first shot had even been fired - you foolishly lost the trust and goodwill of the Russians so that they tucked-in with the Nazis for a while - then you stupidly declared war on a mega-power that you had allowed to grow in your midst, with barely any preparation or industrial or military ramping up in the years leading up to it, except at the last minute.
Yes, you did, indeed, hold your Island against the onslaught, and you did, indeed, out of desperation and very little choice in the matter, develop all kinds of new technologies and procedures for new modes of combat on the water and in the air, and you did, indeed, share those with us, and we were (and are still) grateful, but, the truth of the matter is, that you (for the second time in 25 years) foolishly went to war, arrogantly, and without preparation, and, for the most part, got your asses kicked, soundly, and had to rely upon a change in status of the Russians, and, ultimately, our entry into the war, in order to bail your asses out again, as we'd already begun to do in the period 1939-1941, before we even committed in a military sense to the struggle.
You did good service, but only after you'd stupidly and arrogantly got yourselves into predicaments that required the Untied States - and the Soviet Union, for that matter - to bail out your sorry asses, and to come to the rescue. The best you'd managed without us in Europe was a stalemate, in hunkering-down in your island, and, had we not jumped-in when we did, you would have lost that advantage in another year or two or three, as your enemy took the lessons it learned from the Battle of Britain, and come back for a Round Two that you could not possibly have won - or survived.
So... yes... you played an important part, did good service, and were a good partner.
But the situation in which you'd found yourselves was your own damned fault, because you were already suffering from an Exhausted Empire, and were afraid to act like your ancestors and predecessors had acted, to protect yourselves effectively, while there was still time.
Most folks who know better, here in the States, are operating under no delusions about the victory of WWII being a collaborative effort, but you delude yourself when you omit your foolhardiness and culpability for getting yourselves into such a fix, two times within a quarter-century, when both could have been prevented, done a different way.
For all your supposed and so-called sophistication, you folks screwed the pooch, big-time, twice, in the 20th, and had to belly-up (go bankrupt), in the final analysis.
We weren't overly-keen on taking-up the role of Shield Bearer or World Cop, but the world was (and is) a dangerous place, and running back home and hiding under our beds would have only put us on the same course of risk-of-destruction that you folks inflicted upon yourselves, on multiple occasions, in the 20th.
So, unless you're ready to step back in, and show us by example how to play World Cop better than you did the first time around, you really don't have much room to talk.