Chuckle.
Bad examples? So only good examples of engineering marvel exist in public works? Private concern cannot stretch the boundaries?
What makes you proudest is 2 bike builders building a plane? Damn...its a shame that they were allowed to make enough of a living to afford such frivoloties, isn't it? Damn shame about that capitalist excess, isn't it?
Your position defies logic. Your reason for pride in this country is its ability to succeed and excel in many facets of science, engineering etc...and the basis for that ability is the system that you appear to find abhorrent in its drive to push boundaries.
I >have< thought about what it is that makes them hate. The US is not operating in a global vaccuum...and the hate would be redirected (and up until recently was) at other targets. It wasn't a simple US push to the global economy. It is an eventuality of civilisation as has developed over thousands of years.
We, unfortunately, have been more successful lately. And for that we get the lunatic fringe.
And how easy it must make you to dismiss a brutal act of mass murder as to say "more people die in auto accidents". I'm sure that makes it comfortable to you.
