My turn. The USA was, and is, an important part of society. Love 'em or hate 'em, you need 'em. Yes, USA has lent out tons of money to other countries and stuff, but it is also about 11 TRILLION dollars in debt (Canada is a mere 450 Billion). I for one, am fully supportive of the afghanistan mission (at least to Canada), but think that the need is not to defeat the Taliban, but to simply reduce it to a managable state for the afghans.
In my opinion, USA's government agencies are some of the worst for its class! I read an article once about how wikipedia invented a program to detect who changes information in wikipedia articles based on the IP so to prevent people from changing information about themselves (idiot politicians) and it turns out that the FBI and CIA were found changing information about the gulf war, etc; Not to mention I can't remember the last time they ever told the world when something went wrong. I mean, lets face it, if the world was going to end tomorrow and only the CIA knew, then the public wouldn't be told.
While the USA's war on Iraq I would consider a necessity, I think it was very poorly executed. Turning to american's minds, they are generally plenty smart, except when it comes to sterio-types. It seems the majority of american's hold by to their sterio-types like mad. Everything from thinking that black people are rapists, to thinking guys with glasses are nerds (BTW: Canada's Brigadier General in Afghan wears glasses), to thinking jocks are dumb, to thinking canadians live in IGLOOS... Americans also tend to be harsh and depersonalizating when it comes to insults.
Looking at america's past, what about slavery? They DID support slavery for a while, and even had to have a damn WAR over it (while Canada remained the true north strong and free by taking in the slaves). On the topic of wars, Wciow is correct for point 3. The americans did create a target on themselves though (pearl harbor) but also caused far too much devastation that should not have occured (ATOMIC BOMBS!).
Wciow is also right about this topic becoming depressing, and perhaps biased. Time to move onto something else. All my party tricks don't work online, but I think I know a good joke...
Bob was in trouble. He forgot his wedding anniversary. His wife was
really pissed.
She told him "Tomorrow morning, I expect to find a gift in the
driveway that goes from 0 to 200 in 6 seconds AND IT BETTER BE THERE !!"
The next morning he got up early and left for work. When his wife woke
up, she looked out the window and sure enough there was a box
gift-wrapped in the middle of the driveway.
Confused, the wife put on her robe and ran out to the driveway, brought
the box back in the house.
She opened it and found a brand new bathroom scale.
Bob has been missing since Friday.
And here's another:
An airline captain was breaking in a new blonde stewardess. The route they were flying had a layover in another city. Upon their arrival, the captain showed the stewardess the best place for airline personnel to eat, shop and stay overnight.
The next morning, as the pilot was preparing the crew for the day's route, he noticed the new stewardess was missing. He knew which room she was in at the hotel and called her up wondering what happened. She answered the phone, crying, and said she couldn't get out of her room. "You can't get out of your room?" the captain asked, "Why not?"
The stewardess replied: "There are only three doors in here," she sobbed, "one is the bathroom, one is the closet, and one has a sign on it that says 'Do Not Disturb'!"
And another:
There was this guy at a bar, just looking at his drink. He stays like that for half of an hour.
Then, this big trouble-making truck driver steps next to him, takes the drink from the guy, and just drinks it all down. The poor man starts crying. The truck driver says, "Come on man, I was just joking. Here, I'll buy you another drink. I just can't stand to see a man cry."
"No, it's not that. This day is the worst of my life. First, I fall asleep, and I go late to my office. My boss, outrageous, fires me. When I leave the building, to my car, I found out it was stolen. The police said that they can do nothing. I get a cab to return home, and when I leave it, I remember I left my wallet and credit cards there. The cab driver just drives away."
"I go home, and when I get there, I find my wife in bed with the gardener. I leave home, and come to this bar. And just when I was thinking about putting an end to my life, you show up and drink my poison."
There. Now no more american discussion (except for 'Dumb American Jokes' [JK!!! JK!!! Please don't hurt me!!!]).
