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No Brit that I know would call himself a European. The English were, and those that are still English are still probably stoic. Hitler tried his very best to make them cave and it didn't work. To say nothing of the Romans and the Normans,Maude and Stephen. SO H0W have the English turned into such pussies?

We didn't start wars in Europe, we just ended them. We fought and died for what? For the world to get back to normal. Freedom! We not only fought on European soil to end the lunacy, we had to fight the war in the Pacific at the same time. What weak-kneed sisters we are! We simply fail to empathize with the Euro weenies for all their past war suffering, which I might add goes back many centuries and has nothing to do with Americans or America.

The only wars fought on American soil were the War for Independence, the Civil war, the Indian wars, the French Canadian Wars, and now the war with terrorists of all Nations. I've even glossed over a few that few refer to any more, the war with Mexico, Spanish American, with Cuba, and the war of 1812 fought to put an ! mark at the end of War of Independence. I have still left out a few skirmishes. Americans lost all, died, suffered, starved and still prevailed during our short history. Oh, yes, and in the beginning we were mostly from Europe, Ireland, England and the far East, in the beginning, you experienced war weary smart guys taught us who, how and why to fight.

So, Mr. European, take a long walk off a short pier. Suck it up. Get a grip. You "europeans" over there may want to lie down with the dogs believing you can get up without fleas, but we do not want to join you in your mass extinction mode. We prefer to stick around and fight. We intend to prevail. Listen up! You have just witnessed the the epic remodeling of the middle east into democratic states that will, in time, join the the 21st Century. Forget the bridge! It is happening NOW.

"Europeans think themselves too sophisticated"

I make several trips to Europe every year ( 3 in 2003). Maybe I don't really know what "sophisticated" really is, but most Western European's I meet and interact with could not be called "sophisticated" by my definition.

Ignorant and Ill-informed stand out as good descriptors of them, especially when it comes to all things American.