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Originally posted by occrider What, like staying out of the cold war? That constitutes the majority of foreign policy decisions for the past 20-30 years.

not necessarally the cold war. That was evitable.

Iraqi-Iran war is a good example and most of vietnam. but it's not the whole warfare ideal that has the world hating us. It's that in all matters that concern people, the US takes the lead on the offensive. Sooner or later we'll be nuked, someone will, just because there's so much discontent for americans and western civilization. I fear that day so much, just because It seems that's what the terrorists and radical governments are planning.

The cold war, korean war and desert storm were really the only two wars that had great signifient value. I personally thought the threat of communism wasn't that big of a deal until their nuclear weapons programs were a threat.

Communism is a great concept for 3rd world countries, you can't honestly establish a democracy in an enviroment that's not resourcefully efficient unless there's a will/force behind the matter.

really I don't have a very strong opinion about it all, but I'd wish there was some way the US could of had a more neutral stance the past few years.

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Originally posted by imokruok I'll take the US any day, where I have my constituationally guaranteed freedom of speech, my jury trial, my low income tax rates, and my right to own enough firearms to take over Luxembourg on my lunch break. The only reasons people don't seem to understand the freedoms that we have is because the world press looks at America, and nitpicks the hell out of every little thing. If any European nation was under the same scrutiny as America, you'd find a lot more crap to worry about.

I can't really see whats good about jury-trials.
actually I think it sucks. I'd rather have a trained professional judging my actions, deciding if I have broken the law, than a couple of potential retards judging my moral values.

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Originally posted by NYCTrancefan Actually I can speak German, French, Italian and Spanish, along with a minor bit of Dutch(too gluttoral). I am believe it or not working on Norwegian, and then Danish and Swedish, since those two are mutually intellegible to Norwegian I decided to learn that first. I might soon be speaking to you or trancaholic in your respective forums. Strange an American speaking German, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish and the Scandanavian languages, can you say Enigma Chalk it up to my love of human cultures for learning languages.

whoa! I'm impressed. But you should realize that the nordic languages is considered to be quite difficult to learn. But if you really want to, then you'll probably work it out. and like I said, I am impressed.

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"On 158 occasions, electors have cast their votes for president or vice president in a different manner than that prescribed by the legislature of the state they represent."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Electoral_College

The Electoral College obviously does not always vote the way it is supposed to vote. So you can't use the argument that they always vote in the manner which the people have chosen.

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