Reply #277: ChazII

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ChazII

You are welcome. I know my English is not that god, but I try my best. And read a lot of English by the way.. Even that I was never a good student in English.. Some that I regret today then... Many times I have to use word who are less correct then they I want to use. Even that my old English/Norwegian dictionary is good to use when you are stuck in a word you just _want_ to use, and who are pointing it so much better than the word I know in English. And I guess I have had some good English teacher in the school too;). Specially my 8 grade teacher, who was extremely good in learning it to even a kid like myself:P

I try to write what I thing about the issue of hand. And US have been a place I admired allot when I was younger. I have to say, the last 8 year have given my some few illusion about the US system.. I fear it is in some deer need of a rather hewy overhaul after mr Bush is out of office.. And it Will be long, painful road for US to go down the road, and do this I am afraid. Many of dear funded illusion would be out, and the hard fact about your place in the world Will come out too. But I do believe that a stronger, better, and "nicer" United States of America would come out of it. And a maybe even MORE powerfully US Will come out.. Just hard military power is not the best way to treat enemy or friends.. It just make fear and that many country in the end Will turn the back of the whole US.. Your "soft power" have been one of the "glue-factor" when it come to cementing the alliance, and friendship many, many european feel when it come to the US.. And if US just want to use this type of power more than they do today, you may even get a lot more friends too.. Even in the former eastern block, your "soft power" was doing a lot to make friends when you may don't know you have it.. When the first McDonald was open in Moscow, the line to get a hamburger was true the block, and beyond.. And that for a leaf of bread, and some meet...

A history from the cold war, when one of the russian leaders was in US, wisting Kennedy by the way, and who was bragging about how better everything was in the USSR even that the US have some great places, and a lot of interesting industry. The USSR was better.. But when the leader with the american counterpart was going to a local McDonald, he was impressed by the fact that the american worker could just go to a shop, and by this thing and just eat it. And as the story goes, he was so impressed, that he was willing to let McDonald make a francis-ce in Moscow, just to let people eat a hamburger - but it was in the cold war, and it never ended that way.. Not before the cold war was over, and "eternal peace" was at hand..

I don't know howe you feel about the end of the cold war, but I know that in 1990 it was a really hope that Russia, Europe and US would manage to get along as real friends. And that the rest of problems would be fixed and that real friendship and peace would be archived.. It failed, but Europe was making peace with itself, both when East and Vest germany was ONE, even that East germany was showing up as broke country and that it Will take a LONG time to get that area of germany up to vest-german level. Some say it Will take a generation or two to archive..

But we do have the hope of peace at hand, even that Europe have been a place of horrible wars, and even today have some real problem who have to be fixed.. But I do hope that we all, when time comes, will come, and we all can work together.. Both European country, EU and US.. We have to do that someway, work together, to make it better, and try to work to get other places a better place. But it would not happened if we are using just military forces to do that. We have to use other means to, to archive Peace, and I don't mean when the other side is killed, or bombed down so they cant do something, but a PEACE where we respect and try to make by..

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Sorry my bad English, not my native language