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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Baloo: [QB] [Is flabbergasted and deeply honored to be listed as a national resource, then remembers that so is wood.] <center>:P</center> There are always dumb people in the world. Most of us don't have to cross any borders to find them. Each nation represented by the people at these forums has something unique to offer. Each person here is unique and also has something to offer. Are you griping because it will effect a change for the better or are you just whining that this ignorant so-and-so is an ignorant so-and-so. Calling an idiot an idiot will not make him any less of a dolt. Wailing about American arrogance will not change anything either. What will change things is a willingness to face the fact that opinions are rarely changed by speeches. Rather, people are influenced by other individuals. I don't want to suggest that there are as many idiots in Great Britain or Canada as there are in the U.S., but that the proportion is approximately the same. That "proportionality" thing also goes for proud and arrogant individuals as well. How they come across to others is probably more a matter of personal style than anything else, but I hardly consider it an insult to be put down by a dolt. Rather, it's a badge of honor when the idiots recognize your superiority and try to bring you down to their level. I am not proud of America because of what we have done in warfare. Those things were done out of actual or percieved necessity. I [i]am[/i] proud of things like the Marshall plan, the Berlin Airlift (and I might add that America shares credit with other countries for that one). I am proud of what America tries to do to promote peace, and I am proud of the direction I want America to go (whether we are going that way is another story, but...) The "I'm best, you're not" ploy is childish and stupid. England, Canada, and the U.S. are all great nations, and they do not sit at the peak of the greatness pyramid, but are (or should be) sharing space with other nations, cooperating to raise the plateau of greatness (not defined by military might) to new heights. Unless someone subsequently utters some irresistably stupid remark, I believe this will be my last comment in this thread. (But I'll keep reading it anyway.) --Baloo [/QB][/QUOTE]
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