OT (or is it?): American Imperialism

[dogscoff]

I have just one thing to say on this. The fact that much of the world has the right to chose their way of life at all, is do in large part to the actions of the United States. How soon the ungrateful will forget.

Seems to me the America of the 1940s bears very little resemblance to the america of today. I mean, no-one expects the Germany of today to be the same as it was 65 years ago.

I've always found it interesting that with all the money the US spends overseas (look at our trade deficits) it seems to be one of the most hated countries of the world.

Woo. Money. Yeah. That's OK then.

We've never heard any important news from {afghanistan} in over a year. For as far as I know, Afghanistan is now a peaceful, free country.

Or the exact opposite. Ah, the short attention span of the media...