Africa's only real great feat was Egypt, after Egypt lost power things went to shit. They did have a few well off trading countries on their coast, but those only survived as long as colonialism and the slave trade did. Once the slave trade was abolished, a main source of their revenue was gone and ...

Native Americans were not treated well, it sounds cold-hearted but that is how imperialism works and America wasn't the only one doing it. Over history most prosperous nations ruined other nations or peoples to get there. Does that make it morally right? No, but that was the way of the world then ...

Stagnant water is not a good thing. If anything there needs to be less dams in the world.

sorry duday but less centralized power =/= more democracy, Canada still has a representative form of government correct?

and please don't compare Bush to Lincoln, they were hated for different reasons and those reasons make all the difference

I'd drive around in a car really fast and bust up all the bad people mad max style

Or more likely hide in my cave reading...who needs society

Chronology US Actions

The US isn't the only one but a lot of actions have been carried out for many reasons. One of them has been to prevent any growth of socialist trends that might benefit those countries.

Lastly, although this isnt really a very sound line or argument and is more provactive....i mean seriously, what kind of person do you have to be to be against trying to find a way to limit co2 emissions and find an alternative to fossil fuels. it just seems like such a simple thing that could be ...

Actually a lot of Latin countries have tried to form their own governments but they always seem to get broken up...

To be fair, the West and it's high demands for mahogany wood plus other products just might be impacting the destruction of rainforests some.

Honestly, I believe it is a genetic disease that is recessive (you can carry it and not be gay). I know that the idea is pretty cruel, but it does what diseases want - to prevent from reproduction.

Sickle cell is an inheritable trait that kills people, adn that didnt die.

First, most microbes ...

Jesse, Bad Boy wrote:Clearly you've never heard of Operation Gladio or Operation Ajax.

OMG I remember seeing a movie about the ratlines with Michael Caine playing the fleeing Nazi I think, I forget what it was called. Really shocking portrayal of what happened.

The US has a rich history of dabbling in Latin American countries political processes for more than a century. By dabbling I mean for the benefit of the US, not democracy or Wilson's vaunted self-determination.

You do realize how much more powerful the nuclear weapons of today are compared to Los Alamos? There is a reason that nuclear testing is banned except for underground.

flashleg8 wrote:I would just make a side point that the Napoleonic War was the first truly "world war" being fought worldwide on nearly every continental land mass and every ocean.

So was the 7 years war

Jay did you ever take that test in political science where there are 3 candidates? The first cheats on his wife, did some drugs, and lied about his life numerous times. The second is an alcoholic, abused his position of power in another office, and was a divisive figure. The third was a vegetarian ...

It's going to be horrible, better to watch old epic movies with real war scenes than crappy CGI sequences. If it doesn't have 500 extras it isn't worth watching

Actually Poland crumbled because of the Soviet attack from the East. If they hadn't helped then Poland would have been in a position to mount a defense with help from the West. The German army at that time wasn't ready for an extensive campaign and gambled heavily on the Allies not attacking Germany.

Please explain what abuse this is.

oh and by the way they techinically dont have any rights at all since they arent citizens and they dotn have a visa

That sentiment is a dangerous one. Everyone in the US has the right to a trial and protection, why do you think their was such an uproar on how ...

not compleatly true. the italians joind the axis after sicily i belive

You got that backwards, they joined the allies after sicily fell. That's why a German army moved in to hold Italy and did a pretty good job of it.

EDIT-yeah you people got a lot wrong the parachute operation was on Crete ...

That isn't the point, there is a double standard going on right now. Businesses are encouraging Latinos to cross over illegally so that they can benefit from their labor as well as the nonsense going on right across the border. Then they want to spread a message that it's the immigrants breaking the ...

SolidLuigi wrote:The national symbol of America, The Statue of Liberty , welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the people who built America.

So do you support more or less immigration?

I'll join Toronto if they're still open.

Liek omg, where is the monolith that bestowed the knowledge to them?! I need to get enlightenment before enslavement

He'll rattle the saber, but if they've got nuclear capabilities he won't follow through.

Cheney isn't that dumb.

I haven't heard any projections for Iran having weapons grade nukes in the next 2 years. They don't even have the capability to install a large number of factories which would be ...

That's why they invented aircraft carriers...

I'm afraid for the future because Bush appointed an admiral to head the affairs in the ME which means he is planning to carry out an attack on Iran.