This ... American

Submitted by Vinnie Munoz Cano (United Kingdom), Apr 1, 2009 at 13:17

For a start, this gobsmackingly irritating man, has failed, somehow, to either realise ( this is probable as he is an American ) or acknowledge that Europe is not one culture, it is a collection of many. Some are more similar to others through langauge, religion or type of government but Europe is far too complex and far to old to be called a ' culture '.

Secondly when this man says in his arrogant way that the basic difference between America and Europe is that only America has the ' balls' to stand up in what it believes, I think he should have the intelligence to know that it is only America that has the ' bullets ' to do as it belives is wright. Only America has the money and the guns to force it's hand in any powerfull way on the world stage and it is this FACT and this alone that enables people like him to make his completely stupid comments.

Is he aware that before the second world war and further America did not have nearly as big a ' balls ' as he seems to think they currently have and it was Britain that gave America it's culture, it's capitalism and it's love of guns!! It was ' Europe ' that had the ' balls ' to do as it wished once, now it is America and soon enough it will be China and God help us all when that day comes.

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