You ask how many people have America helped through wars or other wise? Though we could go back further, why don't we just focus on the 20th century? How about we start with your ancestors? What is the population of all of Europe? (Of course, we would have to count them twice wouldn't we?) And certainly our parked military in western Germany allowed the rest of Europe to lick it's self inflicted wounds as we faced down the Soviet Union.
You still only see postwar Europe, you lack knowledge on how and what Europe really is and how it is developing.
How about in Asia? South Korea remains seperate from the brutalities of the North. Japan remains under our protection. Taiwan is not a part of China. How about Africa? How about Muslims in Bosnia? (....this would put us back in Europe, by the way). Do we have to go into the tens of millions of Muslims who no longer have to fear Saddam Hussein and his sons?
South Korea is indeed seperate and prosperous, but Korea should be one country, not two artificial countries.. Wouldnt it be much great if both countries joined under South Korean values?
Taiwan is a part of China in almost all ways, and will certainly be an "official part" of China in near future.
Well, Iraqi muslims dont have to fear Saddam Hussein anymore, but they fear US bombs and killings everyday, and many do get killed. Many more get killed everyday now than when Saddam was president.
But, we've heard about this. The unfortunate victims of this effort through our botching of a good deed satisfy the depravity of those who didn't care enough to do anything, yet find great strength in criticizing.
instead of being uncritical about invasions of countries like most countries were when Germany invaded Austria and Chezkoslovakia?
They also certainly lied about the reasons, like the Americans are doing now, and they both had great propaganda machinery.
And what about Africa? Beside the French troops, who have made quite a name for themselves in western Africa for killing unarmed blacks, only American troops stand in Chad and in Djibouti with an intent to train and defend Muslims from the Sudanese turmoil. When was the last time Europe aided Somalia? Was it when the international forces quickly sped home once the UN mandate no longer held them? When the Bush administration announced that it would commit fifteen billion dollars to the fight against AIDS in poor countries, the reaction was to pick at the details of the gift, which is a contribution that remains unmatched by the European Union or any other entity (as far as I know). Why don't we shift over to the Caribbean? Countless Haitians, Cubans, Dominican Republicans, Puerto Ricans, etc. have been the benefit of American action when unrest threatened them through aggression or nature. And Canada? Does it not enjoy a great medicare system at the expense of a defense thanks to our existence? You see, we take care of our back yard and don't rely upon Europeans to cross the ocean. And what about all those natural disasters all over the world? The American military presence and checkbook is always on the scene before the EU grudgingly shows up with the bare minimum or exhonerating "check is in the mail." But, for a better picture of how many lives America keeps secure, one only has to look at our embassy presence. In these countries, freedom from tyranny thrives.
15 billion for AIDS, wow, imagined if he spent the Iraq neo-nazi invasion money on a cure for AIDS instead, then he would be a hero, not a savage, and we probably wouldnt have AIDS that cannot be treated anymore.
Btw, Europeans donate MUCH more money to fight poverty and AIDS than Americans do.
A quote from the article linked in the end of this post.
"The EU gave away $36.5 billion in development aid in 2003. The US managed just one third that amount—and much of that foreign aid either went to Israel or else came with strings attached: nearly 80 percent of all American "development aid" obliges recipients to spend the money on American goods and services."
NationMaster - Statistics > Economic aid > Donor by country
According to this site, which usually favour the US, even the United Kingdom alone give more foreign AID than the US. If you collect all the European countries they give about 10 times more according to this statistic.
Perhaps the more accurate question here is to ask what European inactivity has accomplished in the world? What has the great EU done for humanity? Aside from wrecking the third world and then graciously leaving it behind for someone else to deal with, what hope do the suffering have with regards to what Europe offers? Tyrants, religious zealots, and human monsters have no interest in the comfy rosy world the EU is pretending to power. It's actually Europe's long history, with regards to their leadership, that dictators are counting on for survival and the EU will not dissapoint. Even today, Ahmenadejad reaches out to German society. You see, by finally addressing a mistake of the past and dealing with a festering dictator who took advantage of the corruptness of the UN and continued to snub the world when asked to behave, America has chosen the future. Those that sat out and only have enough strength to criticize our mistakes behind borders that we secured for them, have chosen the past.
OK, Europe had a bad past, United states are having a bad present time. Europe is trying to make things right this time around, while the US is still learning, but by failures. The US is doing now what Europe was doing hundreds of years ago.
Lets see what Europe has done the last 40 years..
-Contributed more in foreign aid the last 10 years than America has done since world war 2.
-Lifted Spain, Ireland, Portugal and Greece out of poverty, made those stable democratic countries.
-Accepted eastern Europe with open arms, lead to their economic boom, is making those countries stable open market democracies, lifting them out of poverty.
(note. he European Neighbourhood Policy applies to the EU's immediate neighbours by land or sea – Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Georgia, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Syria, Tunisia and Ukraine.)
-Helped the economies and goverments of mose of these countries remain stable and properous, notably Marocco, Egypt and Algeria..
-Supported the US the last 60 years, no matter how wrong or outragous their policies are, it just seems it was enough with George Bush.
-Supported millions of poor Africans with food, education and medicine.
-Friendly relations with Asia and Russia.
-Friendly relations with all nations around the world, except the worse, which we have no relations.
Europe is programmed for failure. The only one's that can't really see it are Europeans. But, it seems that they never see it. Thus two world wars and a third not conjured due to American presence. But we are leaving Germany and "native" Europeans will have nothing but their bigotries towards a booming population of Islamists who are no more interested in assimilating to their host nations as the host nations are of having them. And of course, the intoleration of religion is going to over just grand with Islam won't it?
I know you are wrong, Americans ignore the opinions of the world, THAT is why America is programmed for failure and the only ones who cannot see that is Americans, everybody dislikes Americans. Thats why I want you to read the article in the link at the bottom of the page, he presents it very nicely how it is and not just from an ingorance(towards the world) American view.
The "Socialist European movement" is a farce. It's the latest attempt of European unification on the blood stained continent. First there was the Church that promised peace and resulted in blood shed. Then as Europe fooled themselves into a pacifist mind set, WWI erupted to shatter such dreams. Then there was the period where Europe fooled themselves into another pacifist mind set before WWII destroyed their visions by attempting to unify Europe again under a Swastika. Today, Europeans sit, yet again, with hopeful dreams and pacifist conviction. History repeats itself. Centuries ago, it was the Protestants or Catholics that fell victim to Europe's need to unite. In the 20th century it was the Jews thet was sacrificed. Tomorrow, maybe Americans will cross the ocean again, but this time it will be to save Muslims.
Its not a farce, its a success, nor is it really about only uniting EUrope, but its an attempt to do the right thing, for all the bad we have done, do the right thing for Europe, and bringing the world a peaceful way of resolving their problems instead of by violence and war.. Americans are still on the bad path Europeans were at in their "youth". WAR WAR WAR WAR, DEATH DEATH DEATH, MURDER MURDER MURDER, BLOOOOOOD.. Thats what Americans want, and the Europeans dont want.
I would like you to read this please, and let me know what you think, he presents the reality very well, not just from the American viewpoint.
The New York Review of Books: Europe vs. America
