"For all the individual warmth and generosity of its citizens, the US is organised on a ruthlessly competitive principle: in life there are winners and losers."
True.And a good point.But he did miss several things.he missed a trip through Appalachia where the poor whites reside instead of talking about the poor blacks who are living a hell of alot better concidering the circumstances.There are poor people everywhere in this country.Were also the ONLY country where the poor,welfare,are fat. The US is an overbearing,self ritchous country but we are allways the first to jump in to help someone else.With a deficit in the billions how much of that do you think went to foreign aid?How much went to paying the military to peace keep in these countries that despise us after we save there tulips from themselves. The argument could be made we stick our noses where it best suits us but theres more to it than that.We ARE the bullys on the block but we also do the most to help everyone else.
Wanna pull the landmines from the DMZ?By all means go for it.And when N Vietnam takes a fast train south dont come crying to us again.Weve lost far more military people to fighting someone elses fight than we ever will fighting our own.Its not even close.So when someone squeakes about the US that is a so called natural born,remember this.No one is making you stay here and many have died to enable you to say that but if YOU dont have someone in the military or served yourself to make that possable,you need to stfu IMHO.
Flame away:rolleyes: