Do you love America?

as a woman and a mother of a daughter, I am continually aware of how lucky we are to have been born in the US.
I love my country and appreciate it.
 
Latvian mercenaries! My god, the U.S. is becoming like the Roman Empire. Now we are hiring foreign mercenaries to fight our wars. We are doomed.
 
What's so great about Oregon. I can name at least six states that are much better, i.e. California, Florida, Hawaii, New York, Texas, and Virginia.
 
Do Lithuanians still love the USSR? I doubt it. This country and people are great, but the US as a nation will not be around forever.
 
Guess who freed Lithuanians from USSR. Guess to whom the Baltics ran for support against the corrupting government of Russia in the past few years. That must be because U.S. is such a pitiful shithole.
 
Why? said:
Latvian mercenaries! My god, the U.S. is becoming like the Roman Empire. Now we are hiring foreign mercenaries to fight our wars. We are doomed.
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Nah, it's about a dozen of them from Latvia and around such numbers from some more countries. Those countries' support is symbolic, nothing significant.
 
To seek help of one bully to use it against another doesn't mean that any of the bullies are lovable.
The US has a strong military and is very powerful, so of course smaller countries seek their support.
 
whitewolf said:
Nah, it's about a dozen of them from Latvia and around such numbers from some more countries. Those countries' support is symbolic, nothing significant.
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Actually everyone is now beying transferred to Afghanistan and the number of Latvian mercenaries in Iraq is around 150.
 
whitewolf said:
Yea, let's all go to Lithuania, all the natives are gone to Britain to pick strawberries (because life is obviously so sweet in Lithuania). =))
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You are exaggerating. I'm just back from Lithuania and I met many people who are happy there - blacksmiths, artists, musicians, people who make clothes, goths, folklorists and hippies.

There are those who left, and there are ones that stay.
 
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Perhaps not in YOUR little corner of the third world - but have you bothered actually looking around at other places? Want me to suggest a dozen or so?
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Sure, I enjoy traveling.

Orleander said:
as a woman and a mother of a daughter, I am continually aware of how lucky we are to have been born in the US.
I love my country and appreciate it.
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The child mortality rate in the USA is the highest of all developed countries. You were not lucky to be born in the USA, you were lucky to have survived.
 
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spuriousmonkey said:
That would be Gorbatsov, unless you are a complete ignoramus on world history.
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Things went sour in USSR in good part because of U.S., the notion of democratic government and freedom of speech came there from U.S. - all of that prepared ground for Gorbachev and his perestroyka. Gorbachev would not have been able to do what he did if U.S. wasn't what it was at that time. People in former USSR looked towards U.S. as a model of government and economics.
 
spuriousmonkey said:
Sure, I enjoy traveling.



The child mortality rate in the USA is the highest of all developed countries. You were not lucky to be born in the USA, you were lucky to have survived.
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I'm glad girls aren't kidnapped and sold into slavery en masse here. That happens to girls in poor families in many other countries in Europe and in India. I'm glad female circumcision is a choice here - neither fully prohibited nor forced upon me. Women have it easy in U.S.
 
whitewolf said:
Things went sour in USSR in good part because of U.S., the notion of democratic government and freedom of speech came there from U.S. - all of that prepared ground for Gorbachev and his perestroyka. Gorbachev would not have been able to do what he did if U.S. wasn't what it was at that time. People in former USSR looked towards U.S. as a model of government and economics.
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oh, you are an ignoramus..

I suggest you read 'postwar -a history of Europe since 1945', Tony Judt.

It's a bit longish but you can skip a few chapters and go straight to part three of the book.
 
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You are exaggerating. I'm just back from Lithuania and I met many people who are happy there - blacksmiths, artists, musicians, people who make clothes, goths, folklorists and hippies.

There are those who left, and there are ones that stay.
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There are empty villages in Latvia with abandoned children. That was on BBC news. I'm glad for those who stayed, but their opportunities increased merely because such large numbers left.
 
spuriousmonkey said:
oh, you are an ignoramus..

I suggest you read 'postwar -a history of Europe since 1945', Tony Judt.

It's a bit longish but you can skip a few chapters and go straight to part three of the book.
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...Or, you can give me a concise summary of main points here.
 
whitewolf said:
I'm glad girls aren't kidnapped and sold into slavery en masse here. That happens to girls in poor families in many other countries in Europe and in India. I'm glad female circumcision is a choice here - neither fully prohibited nor forced upon me. Women have it easy in U.S.
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Yes, we have a huge problem of girl kidnapping in Europe. I kidnapped one yesterday. cuz that's what the 3rd world countries of Europe are all about.
 
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