One reads the comments written directly above and wonders if there is any appropriate response. Does one remind the child that however developed their world might be (Europe, I’m guessing is the rest of the developed world?) it was the work of their parents (The US with the Marshall Plan) that brought you up from the levels your shortsighted politics bombed you into? We too were short sighted in those days. While focused on developing your nations so you wouldn’t follow your self-destructive urges and join the Russians in their nihilistic approach to governance, we lost sight that it was you who sent millions to their needless deaths in WWI (that anyone would call any war great is beyond me). The spirit had so left you that you couldn’t learn from this mistake and rose up again for WWII. We lost sight that your version of high-minded ideas has to do with balances of power, the government paying for bread and circuses such as public TV and welfare for the able bodied and minded and your own propensity towards censuring common sense that you deem blasé.

If nothing else confirms the general thinking of this blog-syndicate then your last sentence does. That a preference to rogue states with nukes to even your myopic view of America is openly stated calls into question the maturity of all those you seem to consider your developed brethren.

America will go to hell if it ever elevates itself to the mental Tower of Babel that is current in European thinking. Maybe next time you’ll dupe the Chinese into rebuilding your continent for you.

Save your schoolyard critique for your educational equals in your own weight class.