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To: tejek who wrote (209960)	11/2/2004 12:42:27 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573941

''If President Bush is re-elected, many Europeans will try to make the European Union a rival superpower to the United States''. Yeah right! But who's going to man the post when they are all on their 8 weeks of vacation in July-August?!

To: tejek who wrote (209960)	11/2/2004 12:50:41 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573941

that the United States is morally neither ''exceptional'' nor superior to Europe The US is morally exceptional when compared to European countries in that it accepts people from anywhere on the planet, and makes them US citizens in a theoretically equal playing field. French in England are French, Spanish in Denmark are Spanish, Greeks in Italy are Greeks, but Americans are (at least in policy) not from the country of their parents, they are Americans. If you're born in the US, you are entitled to be a US citizen - end of story. That is found nowhere in Europe (I think). And that starting point puts the US on the highground in discussing moral superiority (of a country, not of a person). As for being which region is "Superior", the best way to measure that is probably immigration. Do more US citizens uproot themselves and move to Europe, or do more Europeans uproot themselves and move to the US? I don't have numbers, but I think the answer is Europeans move to the US more than vice versa. If that's the case, it is likely because more Europeans see the US as better than Europe than US citizens seeing Europe as better than the US. So there!@