Popularity of the US around the world

[Titan]

Bob, did I say that American\'s don\'t bash other countries?

ooseven, Europe would have been aniallated. The Allied Forces just barely won. The German U-boats would have raped you, the German tanks were strong as hell (shells from Allied tanks litterally bounced off) and their artillary was way ahead of our time. The reason the Allies won was because of German mistakes.

Originally posted by Titan
Agreed Ace. I too love my country. I love it so much, I\'m willing to give my life in the next war to defend it. Hell, I\'m thinking about recruiting in the Air Force as my career. I\'m willing to sacrifice everything for this country. It hurts me to see someone hate it just because of our beliefs, customs and the way we do things. I hate the way people bash us for those things. We could bash England, France and Russia for their customs and the way they run their countries the same way they bash us. I don\'t attack other countries because of the way they do things because I respect their beliefs, their customs and their ways of handling problems.

Good for you Titan for serving this country.

Good luck in your career.

Ace

[Titan]

Thanks I actually can\'t wait. But if I was to have a family, I\'m not so sure what I\'d do. I\'d like to stay grounded somewhere but if I was in full time, I\'d be moving all the time.

[Bobs_Hardware]

Titan, I deleted my post

But I was making reference to

We could bash England, France and Russia for their customs and the way they run their countries the same way they bash us

Just sounded... odd..

Originally posted by ooseven


oh God not this old chestnut again :rolleyes:

look we wouldn\'t of lost WW2 with out the US,but  it would of taken longer for the war to reach its Eventual conclusion.

Ok with out the US the war could have lasted 3 to 5 years more

But it would have also saw the Russians capture Berlin and indeed Germany FIRST.

And with a reunified Germany under Communisim were would the cold war end ? :rolleyes:

ooseven you weren\'t only getting manpower - Lend Lease my friend.  Without it, Britain would not have won the Battle of Britain.  You would have run out of planes, fuel, ammunition, etc.  Also, without Lend Lease the Russians might have lost Stalingrad as well.  Before we actually sent men over to fight we were supplying both with tanks, planes, ammunition, etc.

Originally posted by Titan
Bob, did I say that American\'s don\'t bash other countries?

ooseven, Europe would have been aniallated. The Allied Forces just barely won. The German U-boats would have raped you, the German tanks were strong as hell (shells from Allied tanks litterally bounced off) and their artillary was way ahead of our time. The reason the Allies won was because of German mistakes.

yeah and you would be speaking Japanese if it wasn\'t for a lack of resourse to the empire and 2 nuke\'s dropped on their main land.


& Also i\'ll think you will find that all plans for Nazi Germany to have their own D-Day on the UK were either Scrapped or deamed to be a "waste" of resources.

plans revealed after the war showed numerous plans for a land/para invation of main land Britian.

I wonder how many Americans posting in this thread have ever been outside North America?

[Titan]

Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
Titan, I deleted my post

But I was making reference to


Just sounded... odd..

Uh, ok. Keep in mind, I never proofread my posts (actually, I don\'t proofread reports, essays, homework, ect). That\'s why they usually sound somewhat odd.

[Titan]

Originally posted by ooseven


yeah and you would be speaking Japanese if it wasn\'t for a lack of resourse to the empire and 2 nuke\'s dropped on their main land.


& Also i\'ll think you will find that all plans for Nazi Germany to have their own D-Day on the UK were either Scrapped or deamed to be a "waste" of resources.

plans revealed after the war showed numerous plans for a land/para invation of main land Britian.

Actually, we wouldn\'t be speaking Japanese. The only reason the US got into the war was because we were bombed and it was a wake up call that the Nazi\'s were going to get Europe and go after us. That\'s why. As for the two nukes dropped on japan, they weren\'t nukes. Nukes are newer weapons. We dropped ATOM bombs. Different than nukes. Nukes blow up and leave radiation for thousands of years (we use a different type of radioactive material in nuclear bombs taht wasn\'t isolated until post 1940s). Atom bombs are less severe (smaller blast radius) and the radiation brakes down in years. People are living on the blast site right now. However, the US is destroying nuclear missles and war heads. We signed a treaty with other nuclear bearing countries (which are our allies except for N.Korea) and it said that we will destroy X amount of nuclear war heads.

I personally am for the war against Iraq. I\'d like to volunteer if I wasn\'t too young. I love this country and would die for it. Saddam has broken our treaty beween Iraq and the UN. He\'s got something big planned and need to get him out before the shit hits the fan.

Originally posted by Coredweller
I wonder how many Americans posting in this thread have ever been outside North America?

I know the question is probably meant for someone who might have lived out of the US for an extended period of time.

I have a couple of times. I can\'t say that I have lived anywhere for a long period of time but I have traveled a wee bit and I want to do more. My dream is to do Oktoberfest and drink myself into a coma. How\'s that for American overindulgence?

Ace

Originally posted by Coredweller
I wonder how many Americans posting in this thread have ever been outside North America?

I have - lived in Germany and Korea.

Can\'t We All Just Get Along???










Nope, it\'s not in human nature and the ones that think everyone in this world will ever get along, are just too ignorant to see anything. For the most part I\'m fine with the inspections this should be done, before or if any strike on Iraq is done. The thing is with these countries you never know who is going to come into power. People don\'t like other people butting into their business, that is why America gets alot of flack, cuz we go in there and tell them what they have to do, people don\'t like that, if someone tried doing that to us, we\'d say F*CK YOU, and blow your ass to pieces.

[Titan]

Originally posted by Coredweller
I wonder how many Americans posting in this thread have ever been outside North America?

I don\'t see how this would relate to the topic we are talking about. The only reason I\'m not traveling right now is because I don\'t want to learn a second language (I\'d say something like "How about we go to my room and we can rape a herd of sheep" ). I\'m learning french and I hate it. I do have plans for going to see the 24 Heures du Mans one day.

Originally posted by Titan


I don\'t see how this would relate to the topic we are talking about. The only reason I\'m not traveling right now is because I don\'t want to learn a second language (I\'d say something like "How about we go to my room and we can rape a herd of sheep" ). I\'m learning french and I hate it. I do have plans for going to see the 24 Heures du Mans one day.

When you learn French and visit their fair country can you flip them the bird for the rest of us?

Ace

I was born in Germany and went back when I was five until I was 8, so I\'ve lived outside of the U.S. for a total of 6 years long enough for you???