hmmm, I think you could expect a reply from me :)

>Human Development
>- pioneers in women's equality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_women%27s_suffrage

Hmmm, what are you pointing to? I don't see what you're aming at.

>- pioneers in civil or minority rights

Hmmm, can you back this up. Discrimination of blacks was very common on the last century and european countries did not have those issues.

>- pinoneers in indivual rights

I can't back this up.

>Sports:
>- has a few sports leagues made of of the world's best athletes (basefall, football, basketball, and one of the top for hockey)

Certainly not football. The US is a football-dwarf. And for field-hockey, I can't remember them at the top. Each nation has its own strengths in sports. In holland its Ice speed skating, Football, even baseball, hockey, swimming, darts. There are a lot of sports that they are not the best in. Did you look at the medal scoreboard of the winter-olympics?

>The only things I can think of that they aren't the best at:

- Stabelizing their debts
- Providing governmental services for their citizens (e.g 40 million people excluded from healthcare)
- Environmental devlopment.
- Rights of gays
- Gun control / reducing violence
- Sexual education and reducing teen pregnancies.
- The level of education in general
- Knowing about the world outside of their own country
- Multimedia hardware (Asia is better at electronics)
- Development of infrastructure
- Achieving a pure secular government
- Design of consumer goods (Italian is the best)
- Wine / Beer / Cheese
- Culinair (I don't know if a thing like an american kitchen does exist)
- Offshoring

To name a few.