It's May 13, 2024, 12:17:26 AM
First, European criticism is without a doubt deeply embedded in aristocratic socialism. We Americans somehow are purportedly cutthroat and exploiting in our manner of capitalism, and yet manage to allow our unwashed, crass, and parochial classes to define our culture. Do they hate us for trampling upon our less fortunate or allowing our less fortunate to trample high culture and so dominate the American landscape from McDonalds, Wal-Mart, and Britney Spears to Oprah, Nascar, and Jerry Springer?
ensuring that Turks and Greeks are not at war
that China keeps away from Taiwan
Let Italy, Holland, or Austria allow 10 million from Bangladesh, Nigeria, or Mexico to cross their borders rather than merely send food and medicine abroad.
Let us remember that Germany, Austria, France, and England almost ruined Western culture between 1914-18. Only the belated entry of a million American soldiers stopped the bloodletting.
Two decades later, deviant states in Italy and Germany nearly ruined the West a second time in the process eliminating 6 million of Europe's finest citizens. Western Europe the bedrock states of the EU of Holland, France, and Belgium could do little and capitulated in a matter of weeks. All were liberated ""only"" due to the efforts of muscular and unsophisticated Americans..
few doubt that had America not stood firm in creating NATO, the entire continent would have been conquered in the manner of Eastern Europe.
they work at hectic 40-50-hour a week jobs that would send much of Europe into a revolution.
40 hrs btw...