I suppose you're right. There's just so much I can deal with with the sanctimonious Europeans who embraced slaughter on an epic scale for centuries and now deign to tell us how we're an evil empire. Read the news lately? They're threatening the Russians with even more "talk"! You better listen to us now or we'll talk even more! I have no use for them. To call them effete insults my gay friends.

>John, you know better than to wallow in the mud with a pig. You only get muddy, and the pig likes it.<vbg>
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>>Oh, right, I forgot....the evil American Empire. Well, heck, we must be falling down on the job because we haven't collected yet from most recipients of Marshall Plan aid and, doggone it, we should be more vigilant about getting repaid by the Pakistanis, Indonesians, and others for all of that aid we "loaned" them in recent earthquakes and the tsunami.
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>>And, hey, Walter ... check out the photo in this link http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/marshallplan/ See the sales counters? See the "No bucks, no buckwheat" signs? No? Me neither. Someone must have not been doing their job.
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>>Isn't it about time you folks repaid your post-WW2 debt? After all, as you pointed out, we're not a charity, are we?
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>>Oh...one last thing....about enforcing change by force? Actually...ummm...we have. Very successfully at times. Why not ask the Reichskommissariat Niederlande and Anton Mussert about that bit. Oh wait...they no longer exist. Hey, we're not benevolent nor a charity - don't you owe us on that one, too? You did one thing, though, to reduce your future debt...you ensured that about 25,000 of your countrymen were in the German Armed Forces and 3000 Dutch Jews were killed ... guess that made it cheaper.
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>>See, Walter, it's part of a diabolical plan. Whenever disaster strikes we load up the planes and ships and run over and help but, meanwhile, the Treasury collects secret IOUs at Fort Knox so that we can spring them on an unsuspecting world at the time of our choosing!
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>>So the next time a typhoon hits Macau...oh wait, you actually divested yourself of that colony. Only took you a few centuries of corruption and brutality to do so.
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>>So, Walter, the abject lesson is that you better think long and hard about insulting my country and it's charitable works when your country has a pretty poor humanitarian record. Can you imagine Americans joining the Waffen SS, ratting out Jews, and shipping Chinese slaves to all corners of the globe? Didn't think so.
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>>>The single most important task the US has on their agenda is maintain their empire. Geopolitics are a neccesity in order to achieve that goal. Granted, it also tries to impose our western values to the rest of the world, but it sometimes in their enthousiasm also seems to overlook that the world is more complex and you cannot enforce change by force.
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>>>Again, the US is not a charity. It never has been and never will be.