To be fair, Europe has much, much more history than America. As such, they do have more experience with wholesale bloodshed than we do. You're taking a strange tack here. You seem to think wolf is trying to play the US down when all he is doing is stating a fact. Taken on the whole, we have NOT suffered through war as much as Europe. The reasons for said wars are beside the point. Why can you not accept this? It doesn't denegrate America in any way. Seriously, what's the big deal? So what if we haven't been through as much bloodshed as Europe? How is that a bad thing? We chould be thanking God for it, not being angry when someone points it out.
Nevermind, I think I misunderstood where you were coming from. My mistake.
Seems to me the Europeans' history of blood spilling was BECAUSE THEY STARTED THE BLOODLETTING!!!!!!!!!!!
You cannot have a history of generosity of spirit and humane behavior if YOU DON'T DO IT!!!!!!!!!!
The USA has a short history of decency and sacrifice, probably learned from the decadence and inhumanity in earlier societies ( I shall not call them civilizations).
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Over a million casulities in the Civil War is forgotten?
Taken on the whole, we have NOT suffered through war as much as Europe. The reasons for said wars are beside the point. Why can you not accept this? It doesn't denegrate America in any way. Seriously, what's the big deal? So what if we haven't been through as much bloodshed as Europe? How is that a bad thing? We chould be thanking God for it, not being angry when someone points it out.
You are stating that we, America, have NOT suffered as much as Europe. We have suffered more. We willingly entered foreign soil to defeat Communisn for many nations. Most have forgotten the sacrifices we have made. If you count the extermination of many lives during WWII alone and the atrocities that occured. Think of the Holocaust. No, you probably don't. American lives were lost on foreign soil defending freedom for others. Think about that. A nation that fought and defended other countries for democracy. And Europe loved US then. They still do. What's the big deal? That, in itself, is a big deal.