Blitz I got about halfway through this thread and kept reading some of your comments. Though I don't find anything wrong with germans, and particularly enjoy the company of the exchange students of the female gender;)
Some of the things you say don't make any sense to me.
As far as the signature in every single posting...
Iraq threatens U.S. lives every day. They're firing at my friends, guys I know in several air force and navy squadrons flyng A-10 Thunderbolts and F/A-18 Hornets. I don't know if you've ever been shot at, but I would think it takes a person of extreme patience and a long long long temper to not want to shoot back with everything you've got. Iraq hasn't sat quietly twiddling their thumbs, it's been a shooting war every day since Desert Storm. These guys are over there right now getting shot at, as they have been for over a decade. All in support of the immense patience America has shown with Iraq. Put it this way, if someone pulled a weapon on you and you had a "big gun" in your hands with the safety off and your finger on the trigger...how much restraint would you show in this situation?
As for Europe's (read: France, Germany, Belgium) lack of support? Oh well. As I recall when my grandfathers, and there was more than one of them, marched into Paris nobody threw rocks and bricks at them telling them to go away because the German Nazi's at the time were such wonderful, fantastic people. They embraced them showering them with cheers, flowers, and kisses. None of these nations were attacked on their own soil. And this was the first time since the war of 1812 that an enemy has killed so many on American soil on the continental U.S. You'd better believe that I'm pissed off about that and support any action necessary to seek and destroy anyone in support of terrorism. I'm very uncomfortable about the thought that there is someone perhaps the same age as I or younger, who would love nothing more than to die killing me, and I've never met, spoken to, insulted, oppressed or angered him in any way. I dont necessarily WANT to go to war, because I would be the one to fight in the air with my bellybutton hanging in the breeze but you best believe that I will go. Are there better things to do than to kill people? Sure there are, but I didn't start this fight. I will however do my best and do my share to put an end to it.
American imperialism? Correct me if I'm wrong, but in order to be an imperialistic nation don't you need to invade, and occupy foreign countries with the intent of doing so for the sake of just doing so or to expand your territory? I DONT WANT IRAQ. I don't want Afghanistan, I don't want the Phillippines. I don't want to take over any country I just want to live in mine without having to think that at any given moment some uneducated peasant who doesn't know better from a poverty stricken nation might be walking into a shopping mall with a bomb with the intent of killing innocent people who don't want to hurt him. The folks who strap the bomb on him tell him that we want to take his land or we look down on his god or have greatly insulted his honor, but what choice has he got other than to believe that. If anything I'd spend the time and money doing what America does best. Cliche yes but the business of America is business. I'd be more than happy to have America, with its business and industrial superiority act as a consultant to any foreign nation who requested it, pro bono. Take a country and help them allocate their assets and teach them how they can take what they've got to offer, no matter what it is, and make a good life. I'd rather go to another country on a 747 in a business suit, than a fighter jet in a G-suit. Acting as a consultant pro bono would be a hell of a lot cheaper than the billions (pushing trillions) of dollars America gives away each year in grants to aid countries who can't sort out their own problems. Nobody helps America, but we've always been there for who ever needed us.
After WWII, did we enslave any nations? Nope. Did we rebuild all the things we blew up? Yes. Did we get Germany and Japan back on their feet? Yup. Did we spend the money and sacrifice the lives during the Berlin Airlift? You bet.
Pay special attention to this, blitz. Think again before you call us imperialists, because if we were you wouldn't have the privilege to think let alone say that about us.
