Why isn't every other country in the world trying to copy the US ?

[Montegriffo]

Lol.
Someone criticized America, he must be a commie.
Great rebuttal guys.

Ps not even left wing, never voted for or supported the Labour party never mind the communist or socialist workers parties.

By the way, all the criticisms I have listed have been brought up by righties right here on the MHF.

Damn, standards of debate have really nosedived around here.

[Zlaxer]

Damn, standards of debate have really nosedived around here.

There's nothing to debate with the Left anymore Monte....the time for debate has passed.

[pineapplemike]

Lol.
Someone criticized America, he must be a commie.
Great rebuttal guys.

By the way, all the criticisms I have listed have been brought up by righties right here on the MHF.

Damn, standards of debate have really nosedived around here.

yeah seriously, there's a lot of truth in that list. next we'll be asking "why isn't every other forum on the internet trying to copy the MHF?"

to the OP, like someone else said i think a lot of countries are different than the US. most of them are older with their own traditions or they just become dictators instead, i guess.

i like how the OP just mentions our military strength as such an obvious asset to copy, as if another leader is sitting there thinking, oh yeah, why don't we do that in our country? lol surely the last century of global politics and our place in the world controlling the reserve currency has aided us in having such a bitchin' military

speaking of, when is that military parade?

[Zlaxer]

yeah seriously, there's a lot of truth in that list. next we'll be asking "why isn't every other forum on the internet trying to copy the MHF?"

No one is debating that the US has it's faults - C-Mag stated that off the bat. The questions is - why do some countries remain shitholes when we've showed them an alternative path.

It's really a "White Man's Burden" argument....

[pineapplemike]

whats the over/under on the US having some personal involvement in these countries being shitholes?

[Fife]

Every other country is a smörgåsbord of ideas.

I want to pay $5 on Fiverr for an audio clip of you saying smörgåsbord.

Nothing weird, I just love hearing that Swede accent.

[Zlaxer]

whats the over/under on the US having some personal involvement in these countries being shitholes?

Probably less than the Euros have had on Africa. Certainly less than the Ruskies or PRC on Asia and Central/South America.

Hmm...lets pick a "developing" country ...how has the US fucked Brazil?

[pineapplemike]

I don't know man but anytime I'm surfing on LiveLeak, seeing what's going on in the world, the craziest shit is always coming out of Brazil

[Hastur]

Every other country is a smörgåsbord of ideas.

I want to pay $5 on Fiverr for an audio clip of you saying smörgåsbord.

Nothing weird, I just love hearing that Swede accent.

You're making me hungry thinking of smörgårdbord.

[Ex-California]

I say how fairly is that wealth distributed?
How come with all that wealth you have such a poorly financed infrastructure. You have crumbling dams, bridges unsafe to use, a third world public transport system.
Where does all that wealth go?
Why do you have 11 massive aircraft carriers, the three biggest military airforces in the world and yet cities like Detroit which have been abandoned by the government, an appalling state school system which cannot even guarantee the safety of its pupils never mind educate them to a reasonable standard?

We don't need a public transport system, we have an effective highway system that allows us to not be filthy collectivists rubbing up against each other.

"Crumbling dams" and "bridges unsafe to use" are outright lies. We could use some more maintenance on the roads and infrastructure, but this is due to government mismanagement of money, not even necessarily the military spending that keeps your defense spending down.

Detroit and school systems are also due to government ineptitude.