post by Karl Marx :
We are the wealthiest nation in the world and in history
wealthiest of the History ? History didn't begin in 1776, guy.
Venice was wealthiest in the XVth century.
Spain was wealthiest in the XVIth century.
France and England were wealthiet in the XVIIIth century.
France under the rule of Napoléon III, was maybe one of the weathiest nation all over the world : Germany ask for money afetr the defeat of 1870/71, everybody in Germany believed that it would take maybe 50 years for France to pay all....in 3 years, all was pay...
Roma was wealthiest in the Antiquity, Carthage aslo, during the IIIrd century before JC.
So, now, USA are wealth, maybe the wealthiest, but say that they are the wealthiest of the history.......
And even if it is right, the modern way of trade help this statistic...so, don't say that, about the History.
IÂ’d sure like to see what youÂ’d do if you were in our soldiersÂ’ place, getting shot at every day and living in constant danger. You'd probably soiling your undies. If you had half the character of those brave men and women you'd have 100 times the honor you currently possess.
Not all the soldiers of the world react like the US ones....the british and french soldiers did operation of peace since decades, they never shot on civilians like you did.
In Bosnia, the brit/french soldiers did a great job.
the french Marine troops, not so well known than the Légion Etrangère, are all the same elite troops.
The brit/french soldiers are accustomed to the fire, the danger, the death...
the modern US army is not, like in Somalia 1993, or Iraq 2003/2004.
Some US troops are excellent of course, but the basic soldier, the young boy, he is not. Why ? the trainning is bad. When you see a report on TV showing a US soldier on an armoured vehicle, at the gunner post, with a discman, listening to music and shooting people...and when he said after that war is for him a video games.....I think that if he take a bullet in the stomach, he would see that in the real world there is no health pack....
So, I saw and see french and brit soldiers under the fire, they did and do a great job.
One of the biggest exports from our country is entertainment e.g. movies, TV shows and so on. The reason is that there is a high demand for them. One of the reasons that radical Moslems hate us so much is the export of our culture to their countries. As for being ignorant, American industry and technology is exported every day. We are the ones who walked on the moon, split the atom, and found the cure for Polio. Drugs produced by American companies are used all over the world, American technology is responsible for the Internet (developed by the US Dept of Defense), computers and software (Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Dell etc are all American owned companies)
So, for you, the USA create the modern world....
For the atom...You had Oppenheimer, but Einstein was german.
If you didn't have it, the Germans would have the nuke bomb before the USA, because their works were really advanced.
For the Moon : same thing : thank Von Braun and the important number of german scientist kidnapped by US troops in 1945, who help US, even when some were war criminals, US said nothing, if the scientist helped them.
For the US entertainment, it is well exported, but it is not a proof of the quality of the programms....USA TV shows are known to be dumb, for a large part of them, like Jerry Springer's one.
For the technological research : don't foregt France, Germany, UK.
Example : for the aerodynamic, it was a French who did the bigger part of the job, and without a big laboratory. The US scientist came to the same result several years after, but they had all the modern equipment of the time.
The cure for rabies was discover by Louis Pasteur, a french. the penicillin , by Alexander Fleming, a british...
SO, USA didn't discover all.
If you try to do the list of all the discover of USA....you can also try the same thing for France, UK, Germany....you will see, your list will be smaller...
So, 'd bye.
Sleep well, proud US patriot