Your assumption that the US is the only country worth taking intact is charitably speaking rather absurd.
I found it 'charitably speaking rather offensive.' and indicative of an insular view where saluting the flag every morning makes a country great even if there is no other evidence. I mean, if you had a terminal illness and where broke you would be far better off in Iraq than in America. In Iraq at least the hospitals would try to help, even American field hospitals would if on a "hearts & minds" mission. Iraq might be a bit of a mess thanks to the greatest country in the world dropping bombs on it, but it's still leading America in some areas.
if the jews had more guns they would have been able to kill more S.S. or brownshirts - demoralizing them and possibly reducing their numbers so they could have been kept at bay.
And if we drop more bombs on Germany they will have to surrender! We need more bombers!
and as for riding on the pavement i like to see what theyll ride into
I ride on the pavement, half the time thats because they ran out of pain for the cycle lane and so the pavement goes back to being just pavement... The other half the time its because there's no cycle lane, and in one place its because the cycle lane is so rediculous and dangerous I refuse to use it, or to cross the busy road for a few hundred metres only to come back again.
Cycle lanes around my way have increased in quantity dramatically and whilst some of them are a bit ill-considered they have changed my view on cycling a lot, they've taken me away from the road to the point I am barely on the road at all.
I'd rather ride slower on the pavement then take the risk of sharing tarmac with Puki. :P