Our neighbors love us? They are afraid of us. As is the rest of the world. America's power has decreased every year. Why do you think gas is still expensive. Back in the 1980's the price was 3.20 but then America stopped buying as much gas, as we are now, and the price dropped back to $1.20.

Technology works both ways also. Who do you think developed the nuclear bomb? German scientists. Who made gas efficient cars? Germans. Who makes most of the technology we enjoy? Japanese. "Our" technology is more or less borrowed.

The President was FDR just so you know, and he heard of the messages but even then we believed no one would dare attack us. We had slower planes, less damaging weapons, and crappy guns compared to the rest of the world. So what happened on 9-11? America can be attacked, because in our own ignorance we ignore the fact we are no longer the major power house in the world. Also, we were considering getting into the war before Pearl Harbor. The Axis were going to conquer all of Europe and Asia at the rate it was going, and if they had then conquering America would not have been that hard. We won because we took Einstein and asked him to make a bomb and because of a little of bullshitting. We said we had a whole arsonal of nukes and Japan believed us. We only had two, and it would take months to make more.

Remember a couple years ago when all of a sudden the stock market dropped like, 400 pts? That was because of China's stock market. We are vulnerable. It's not like we have some protective shield around America.

Oh and I would rather have veggie oil because compressed oxygen is more likely to explode but you missed the entire point of my post.

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