>>>>>>Kevin seems to think that something like 9/11 is the worst thing that could possibly happen to a country, and that people from other countries have no right to comment because they haven't experienced anything as serious. I believe that viewpoint lacks perspective.
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>>>>>>With all due respect to the heinousness of 9/11, my position is that unrestricted general warfare is far more serious. The effect of WWII on the average Brit was far more traumatic than that of 9/11 on the average American. Figuratively speaking, with 9/11, the US got slugged in the face unexpectedly by a stranger, and knocked on its keister with a broken nose.
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>>>>>>Kevin basically telling Nick to STFU because the UK has less experience of trauma and suffering, is simply ignorant.
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>>>>>But it fits nicely with the view that whatever happens with/to/in the US us larger, greater, more serious and more important than whatever happens anywhere else in the world.
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>>>>It is to Americans. Why shouldn't it be?
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>>>Because you believe that you have the right to intervene anywhere in the world whenever your interests are perceived to be threatened. The combination of such self-centered view and proclaimed right based on own perceived importance is among the top 10 reasons everyone loves the US.
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>>Unlike other countries, there is nobody the US can call for help if we are smashed in an attack. Self centered? Too bad.
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>Honest question (I really don't know the answer): what kind of foreign aid did the US receive after disasters such as 9-11, Katrina, and the 2008 floods in the Midwest?

We did get some NATO help after 9-11.