You have to remember one thing...if the US were to declare war on Europe right now you would be beat back to the stone age. It's not the Europe from 60 years ago and it wouldn't be just two countries to fight more like 25 countries (27 next year) with a population of about 461,500,000.
Then you have to take into consideration the EU's trading partners (countries that trade more with Europe than the US); China (pop.1,301,531,005), Japan (pop.128,085,000), Russia (pop.142,400,000), Cuba (pop.11,382,820), several South American countries, and Afica. And of course there's Great Britain, which is part of Europe, and the members of the Commonwealth who instictively follow GB into any war they may be in. So the war would be brought within the borders of the US. (US pop.299,360,879; so it would be the US against 2,044,898,825 people, not including the Commwealth of Nations, nations waiting for entry to the EU, African, and South American Countries).
And let's not forget the countries that the US is already at war with....
The US has alienated so many countries over the years it would be truly the US against the world and you americans would not survive an onslaught of such magnitude. Your military is not the best in the world, e.g. the US sends troops to Canada every year to do war simulations with the Canadian Military and every year, the Canadian troops kick your butt (just like the war of 1812)...and these Canadian Troops are Militia or weekend warriors. Besides, most people think the US is a bunch of SCUMBAGS (not all...I've met some americans that are pretty normal).
2006-09-21 21:12:35
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answered by Anonymous
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Obviously this question was put in either stupidity or to generate a hostile response, so I will try not to bite. Your comment could be construed as racist in this politically correct day and age and although America is the so called super power, that does not mean that it is always correct in what it does, and this applies to other countries also.
Iraq was necessary perhaps, but could have been handled and thought out a lot better than it was. The same with Afghanistan.
My own personal opinion, that perhaps is a little akin to your view is that all countries should work together where possible, but on trivialities and the like other countries should be left to their own demise and our own countries concentrate on our own people and economies.
America is as much a user and backstabber (if not more), than any other has history can reveal, but to incite a war against Europe and its scum ( your words not mine), is a clear indication, that America could do without YOU, and Europe DEFINITELY has enough of your kind already trying to change its course, so can also manage without you.
Not many places left for such - perhaps the sahara desert - would keep you happy ( with no water)
2006-09-21 20:44:07
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answered by Anonymous
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Generally people in Europe have no hate for Americans, just the policies of the American government. The US is a nation built with immigrants, the majority by far from Europe.
"By the federal government's categorization of race, most Americans (80.4% in 2004)[70] are white. These white Americans are mostly European Americans—the descendants of European immigrants to the United States—along with some non-Europeans counted as white in government nomenclature—that is, those with origins in the original peoples of the Middle East and North Africa"
European's being a massively diverse range of cultures and languages have a huge variety of media sources, some good, some bad but overall the quality of news and information we receive from them is higher and closer to the truth. The US media, that which most US citizens get their information from are seen as producing a lot of US governent propaganda and are generally not questioning their own government on important issues. This come mainly from the fear of being seen as "anti-american", something that many of your people will remember from the McCarthy era.
That is not to say Europe is better, intellectually or morally but we do question our own governments more publically and often this leads to political change for the better. Europe also has a wide diversity of democratic styles of government as well as active parties from all parts of the political spectrum, far left to far right.
In the US the left, while it exists is generally limited to participation by intellectuals, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn and Alex Cockburn spring to mind whereas the right is generally controlled by people successful in business rather than those who believe in an actual right wing system beneficial to all.
Your nation hasn't signed the Kytoto Protocol, why? Because your government makes too much money out of pollution, which effects the rest of the world more than your own nation, the US is the worlds biggest polluter.
Your government hasn't ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, a global act to protect children,
" The United States and Somalia are the only countries in the world that have failed to ratify the Convention. Although the United States signed the Convention on February 16, 1995, the treaty has never been submitted to the U.S. Senate and the United States has stated that it has no plans to ratify the convention. "
..because it would involve preventing the use of the death penalty, 25 states in the US advocate the EXECUTION of children for some crimes, surely you see both these examples of International Law as progressive values in society?
The US government also consistently ignores the International community on issues of war, your nation is the worlds biggest war-nation. In fact name one war in the last 50 years where the US was defending the USA..there aren't any. All wars the US have been involved in are acts of aggression designed to increase US economic and military power and global control.
The only possible exception is Afghanistan, however even that is tenous at best. One attack on one city does not a war make, the war on terrorism is a lie, its a propaganda trick to cover up miltary and economic expansion. Your government has spent so much on war in the last few years that you YES YOU owe $28,365 approx to the banks that bank roll your govt.
Current US debt: $ 8,496,862,908,326 divided by 299 million people.
Under Clinton, whilst the man was a complete farce of a leader your nation was looking to be debt free by 2008, the Republican government put a stop to that.
I don't hate Americans, I don't hate you either. I know you so I reserve judgement until such time as you start to prove your bona fides, calling all Europeans scum is start to proving the kind of person you are, but by no means definitive.
2006-09-21 21:12:44
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answered by The Pirate Captain 3
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Your doing awfully well with the ratings, pal. I'm starting to find your questions mildly entertaining, mainly because they seem so utterly stupid. I don't think Europeans should even care what you think. You want your country to go it alone? Well, if others in America share your views that day will come.
I suggest you visit Europe and go there with an open mind, if that is at all possible for you to do. Of course you probably won't, and you'll continue to live in your narrow little world.
2006-09-22 18:34:44
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answered by tiko 4
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Americans are like the Romans. If they write the books, they are the heroes. They have a few useful technical inventions like the Romans did. The Romans had client kings like Tony Blair. But nobody ever really liked the Romans very much.
But America is a big place, and I have found them mostly OK, except I have disliked all New Yorkers I have met. I found them arrogant and bullshitters. I could say the same about Old Yorkers as well.
2006-09-21 22:29:57
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answered by Perseus 3
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2016-10-16 01:43:47
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answered by ? 4
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Wow. These people (conservatives) sure are getting desperate. They have nothing intelligent left to say. Their lies are falling apart and it appears that they are losing their minds! Lying more and bigger, name-calling, extremist nationalism...These people really do enjoy the idea of a fascist state in America!
Like so many of your radicalist peers, you must be Schizophrenic or something. You have absolutely no grip on reality, and really should get some help...or at least pay attention to what's going on around you and in the world before blabbing off like that!
2006-09-21 20:46:42
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answered by corwynwulfhund 3
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If America didn't exist, the world would be such a better place. How dare you insult Europeans like that. I don't think you have a clue as to Europes role in world history. If it wasn't for any of us, you wouldn't be sending this message. Go flush your head down the toilet, wake up and appologise to all the Europeans out there who have had to put up with the stuff that America has done to the world.
2006-09-21 20:14:02
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answered by Charlie Brigante 4
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Then, you may have to know where Europe geographically is. Americans are known to get it wrong all the time.
They attacked Iraq without knowing where Iraq is. In a survey, 92% of Americans thought Iraq was in Afghanistan. The survey stopped short from asking them, then where do you think Afghanistan is?
2006-09-21 20:57:44
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answered by Anonymous
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theres a saying that no man is an island, what if in this world is europeans be friendly to europeans its an ally to america,america needs europe needs asia and vice versa,you have to soul search in europe and you must take vacation there and know thier profound so that you can understand being a human existing in this planet earth huhhh
2006-09-21 20:42:00
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answered by mario t. reoyan 3
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