So Europeans have no balls huh?

Submitted by Stephen (Japan), Aug 3, 2008 at 08:10

Those "balls" of yours are in danger of getting you destroyed. America runs in like a spoilt teenager who thinks he's always right and invariably ends up causing more damage than he wished to prevent. Calm your "balls" down a little and you'd find out that you don't actually have more control than European citizens over government decisions. You have far less. The reason we dont like or desire to get into wars is because we've had 2 BIG ONES in the last centrury. We were not able to strategically watch from afar and come in at the last minute to save the day. The streets of Warsaw, Paris, Prague and London were bombed, the scars are still there. We cannot afford to destroy ourselves again.

Get off your high horse of American moral and social superiority and stop looking at yourself like Narcissus in your rose-tinted pool. Europe has made it our own, and we are proud of what we've accomplished. While Americans may be more brash and absolutist (and attractive to European females) they are merely dying for other people's beliefs, not their own. At least a European citizen can hold any opinion and be tolerated. My experience in the States showed me the opposite is true. The class system which has always been seen as an historical British phenomenon is alive and well in the States. At least Europe can actually see that there is no absolute truth and that believing so can only cause war. The calculating, non-absolutist European approach is the way forward.

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