For all those who feel outraged that a foreign country is attempting to influence the US elections, now you have some idea how it feels for citizens of other countries when the US not only attempts to influence their elections, but actually tells them who the candidates they can vote for are.
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Originally Posted by mirevolver
The thing Europeans don't realize is that the US changed when we were delt an unprovoked attack on September 11th, 2001. Though I would hate to ever see this happen, but I believe that Europeans will never understand it truely unless there is an attack of the same magnitude in Europe.
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Europe has been dealing with terrorist attacks for far longer than the US. For the US to think that they are alone in this smacks of the insular attitude they've long been accused of (and probably a good reason for some foreigners to write to them and set them straight on a few issues).
The other day I was listening to a US radio station doing their daily "Today in History" spot. The date was October the 12th. I heard about some American ladies who got their pilot's licences, I heard about a US soldier who threw himself on a grenade in WWII and so on. There was one glaring omission, however, that I could not believe went unmentioned. See if you can guess what it was.