| im_sneaky said: Odd that some Americans still think they are the biggest and bestest country in the world, in everything. |
Why do you find the truth so odd? No other country comes even remotely close.
Oh, and to that other guy....
I didn't start the aircraft carrier talk, someone else did. But since it was mentioned, you can't be a super power without large carriers. The UK learned that lesson during the Falkland wars.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
