[Alberta's Child]

Interesting article, but there's one big item missing from this list:

North America was settled more recently than any other region of the industrial world, which means it was effectively built from a "clean slate." It's one of the few places where you can trace ownership and property titles back continuously to the first property owners in the age of written language. This makes all the difference in the world when it comes to something as simple as banking, lending, and investing.

[nathanbedford]

I do not see the mandatory obeisance to diversity as our strength.

[4rcane]

sorry, theres only 1 reason why America became the powerhouse that is now. Capitalism.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Also, as a nation of immigrants, we never developed the jealousy-infused balkanism of Europe. At least till now.

[Altura Ct.]

Western Culture:If the entire population of Venezuela, Iran, or South Africa were here in the United States and all of us were gone, this country would quickly turn into a pesthole, just like all of those nations because they're culturally inferior to us.

Is this another way of saying white?

[2001convSVT]

Forgot two important ones!

8) The right to ownership and laws and courts that uphold that right.
9) The individual is supreme over the collective.

[lentulusgracchus]

[Art.] We lack this capacity today and make up for our inability to mass produce weaponry by creating high quality war machines. This is a potentially dangerous strategy because if a large chunk of our superior weaponry were ever destroyed somehow, it would take us an inordinately long time to rebuild it.

High quality was the German strategy. As a result, they produced smaller numbers of great machines, but in the field, German tanks required the presence of specialists, whereas American tanks could be serviced and repaired by their crews with or without a hand from other U.S. soldiers nearby; everyone was a shade-tree mechanic in the 30's and 40's.

German tanks required about 11 hours for a significant repair job, American tanks, about half an hour for e.g. recasting the engine main bearings.