A World Without America

A world still being ravaged by polio as late as '69?  Load of rubbish – we'd have sorted it out by then.  As for the thought that it was the American president (George H W, surely?) that convinced Thatcher/Major as to the evils of Saddam Hussein, so without America, Britain would be palsy-walsy with a nuclear weapon-posessing Iraq?  Absolute **** – we have a lower tolerance of nuclear weapons as a nation than the US, so any British government that supported Hussein would find themselves out on their ear at the first available General Election (unless we're going to claim that, without the US, Britain would not be a democracy). ::) 

Other than that, I agree that, in general, the world would be a worse place without the US.  I have been roundly criticised on here before for being anti-American, which just goes to show how much Dubya's "If you don't support every decision I make then you're not a patriot" rhetoric has been swallowed uncritically by people.  I am NOT anti-American,  but I am critical of US foreign policy, its attitude towards the EU and the UK, and its reluctance to reduce carbon emissions.

Just imagine the fun you can have if you're American and don't whole-heartedly support every decision coming out of the offal office…

Take heart, stmercy, with these words of no less a man than Theodore Rooseveldt:

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. (1918)

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/08/canadas_universal_health_care.html

Hahaha.  There was no hospital in Canada that could handle four simultaneous intensive care births, so the mother had to give birth at a small hospital maternity ward in the U.S.  Suck it up, Canuck.

Your really not that nieve to believe that right!

From the article:

Canada welcomes the birth of the newest set of quadruplets born to proud Canadian parents. Karen and J.P. Jepp. However, the Jepp quads will be eligible to run for the presidency of the United States when they reach the age of 35, having been born in Benefis Hospital in Great Falls, Montana, 325 miles from their home in Calgary, capital of the Canadian oil industry.

The precious gift of American citizenship comes to the Jepp Quads because there were no hospital facilities anywhere in Canada able to handle 4 neonatal intensive care babies. Not in Calgary, a city of over a million people, the wealthiest in Canada, or anywhere else in Canada.  Local officials looked.

I guess I am that naive.