Canoeman wrote:You've gotta be kidding about the EU right...WOW...way off base on that one...a broken dream mired in red tape trying desperately not to devolve into another ethnic cleaning from time immortal....you've got to step back and see that Gordian Knot for what it is...the vision was commendable, the reality a self made disaster. That is the stark reality of the situation...your nation is even voting to leave!...if it is so great why would anyone want to leave??????
Lets be clear, the policy of the USA during the Second World War was to defeat the Axis powers: not Great Britain! This is a bizarre statement. Since that time the USA has led the free world and sometimes using force is necessary, as I posted earlier, war and violence are part of the general human psyche, irrelevant of country and/or culture.
I think that the people who have been saved by US healthcare might have a different opinion than yours. Either way it is up to a country to decide its health care policy....there are problems in all large health care paradigms....I believe your nation has some of the worst problems. Your model is certainly not to be emulated....a disaster according to many experts in the field...crumbling?
Your foreign aid figures are incorrect, and according to the UN, the USA overall is the largest contributor to that organization financially (by FAR!). You yourself admit in your post that the USA is the main driver of the UN.
Great Britain did FAR more meddling than the US when it was running the show....and for a much longer time frame too. The cries of what could have been for Africa still should haunt British halls of power.
Nobody should want a leaderless world...it will quickly decay into conflict, starvation and the four Horsemen will rule.
These are dark and dangerous times indeed.....Canada being one of the few beacons of light in an otherwise darkening landscape.
I would like to hear the opinions of those Americans who were not saved by the US healthcare system.
