[HankReardon]

Great things have been brought forth by nations of The West for the betterment of mankind specifically the USA. Penicilin and other medical and health advances that have been shared with the world. The eradication of childhood diseases was brought about by scientists working in The West for a profit!! Capitalism and Freedom and Liberty to keep the fruits of your efforts and better your life motivates such advances. Inventions that relieve drudgery that take so much time hence freeing the mind to make other advances. What has any Arab nation, socialist nation, or Communist nation ever contributed to the betterment of mankind? This is not a rhetorical question, I would really like to know. What has ever come from any Arab nation besides the youth that they teach to envy, hate and kill? Don't say oil, if not for The West developing the uses for oil, it would still be in the ground. Yes, I am Grateful to be an American, God bless people like Ted Nugent who know it's not enough just to have the Right to Free Speech, they use it.

[calenel]

Do you mean recently? I can't think of any recent beneficial contributions but the arabs are responsible for algebra.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

What has ever come from any Arab nation

I am with you. They are the lords of nothing but sand. And yet it is the culture of the West that has allowed the development of the kind of minds that can take but one grain of that sand and create something such as the silicon microchip. The one invention that has changed the face of our world and the destiny of our race. And I don't think that's hyperbole.

[Gracchus]

Soviet mathmeticians were pretty strong. As were their aeronautical engineers. I'm not an expert and understand they "borrowed" heavily from US designs, but some of their newer planes are pretty quick.

Can't think of much else.