So we became them.Not quite. We have a higher GDP, higher life expectancies, better standard of living etc. At least until Kerry gets elected. Then we can kiss it all goodbye.
Those are all products of freedom.
We are feasting on the corpse.
We're the focus of blind envy and hatred because we're happy, lead decent lives, are successful, and really believe the Constitution of the United States. We live it each and every day, much to the consternation of the rest of the world. They just don't get it and they don't want us to have it, either. We were naive, thinking the rest of the world, once the threat of communism was past, would mind their own business and just go about their lives in peace. No way. And now they have the collosal gall to basically tell us we have no right to defend ourselves when we're attacked by a bunch of lobotomized Islamofascist crackpots.
George Washington was dead right when he counseled against foreign entanglements. Europe wants us as their Hessians, to do their bidding, and bleed and die for them on their orders...while they connive to beat us economically and spit in our face. Uh, not going to happen. Not in a million years. This will play itself out, with Europe getting exactly what it deserves.