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Submitted by Straight_Talk_Luigi (United States), Nov 25, 2008 at 18:12

protecting the liberty of Europe was a dubious enterprise. I mean, you guys and gals have in the old world have really made us work to keep civilization well, civil over there, and quite frankly, we are getting sick and tired of covering your sorry rears while you experiment with socialism.

In the end, it may not even matter because Russia, China, India and Brazil are the future, not dying Europe, Canada and Australia. You can't even handle radical Islam within your own borders, and I'm sure we'll have to help you handle that too.

All thanks to this delusion known as "social progress".

Maybe you should just make Osama your overlord and surrender to Russia. Some of your fellow citizens might like that too much though.

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