Company of Fools
How much should we worry about what the French, Germans, Chinese and Russians think. Let's look at this:
The Germans allowed the most brutal and evil person of the last century to rule their country.
The French capitulated under force and collaborated with said person. (I'm willing to cut the French a little slack here, few countries suffered the casualties that France did during World War I: 73% casualties; 1,357,800 dead; second only to the Russian Empire 76% casualties)
The Russians, do we really have to say it? Stalin, Lenin, can anyone really argue that the Soviet regime was not one of the most brutal, wasteful and destructive in history.
The Chinese, the point could be made that they've made communism work for so much longer because they've had the short 'n' curlies to do the things that even the Soviets wouldn't.
This has all been gone over before and probably in better/deeper detail. But I just have to have my moment. None of these countries or their citizens has the right to slander us when they are the legacy of some the most brutal regimes in history. Europe itself has been the spawning point of the two most catastrophic wars ever fought and in large part because they were a bunch of complacent, wishy-washy nincompoops.
Oh, and one more thing! Where do these arrogant European wankers get the right to attack the US Government on our transgressions against the Native Americans? Almost every European power was involved in colonial Imperialism, which had everything to do with exploitation and displacement of the indigenous populations