The United States overall is a benefit to mankind

The Video you showed was a ranting of how one man thinks that the media tries to control the thoughts of people in a Democracy, and then lists East Timor as a brief example of how much attention the media gives news stories. The Telephone was an Patented in America and the first one was actually made in Boston. . http://atcaonline.com... . http://inventors.about.com... . http://seor.gmu.edu... Just because Soccer may be more popular then Basketball does not mean that Basketball has no contribution to society at all. The US invented the Bessemer process, Europe was using far different techniques that took weeks to create one beam of steel, the Bessemer process did the same thing in a matter of Minutes, no technique in Europe that was used for "hundreds of years" like you claim existed. . http://en.wikipedia.org... . http://www.infoplease.com... . http://inventors.about.com... That last one shows how the modern manufacturing of steel uses technology and techniques from the Bessemer process so it is a very valuable contribution to society both in the past, present and future since it opened up the ability to mass produce steel, build skyscrapers, and is looked back upon when trying to perfect more modern steel manufacturing techniques. Liquid rocket fuel is what fuels rockets and the space shuttle to carry people and machines up into space to learn more about the mysteries of the Universe, it is CERTAINLY relevant to society! !! As for the all the electronic industries (the US was the first to create) we as a nation still contribute to them and we still use them quite frequently. Dont act like everything is made in Asia and therefore they deserve all the credit because if it werent for America these technologies wouldnt even be available to east Asia nations to build their entire economy off of. Oooooo thats another good point for my case actually. Many US inventions are what drives many east Asian economies who mass produce and continue to try to perfect it, so the US clearly contributed to society because their inventions drive the entire economies of other parts of the world. I never said the US was leading manufacturer of hybrid cars, I was just showing how we have contributed the the field of Hybrid cars. On another note guess which car company was the first to mass produce hybrid cars. .. .. .. Motorola, an AMERICAN CAR COMPANY . http://www.whoinventedit.net... . http://en.wikipedia.org... . http://www.hybridcars.com... . http://www.mlive.com... An Inconvenient truth was made back in 2006, since then China has in fact become the worlds top polluter, so Cons (falsified) argument does not stand. . http://news.bbc.co.uk... . http://www.guardian.co.uk... . http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com... . http://www.examiner.com... The Con is basing his claim that the US never intended to overthrow the Taliban because of somsething one conspiracist says. We invaded Afghanistan to remove the Taliban from power and prevent Al Qaeda from using the nation as a base of operations for launching terrorist attacks against the world (and the US succeeded) . http://en.wikipedia.org...(2001%E2%80%93present) . http://terrorism.about.com... . http://www.cfr.org... The only thing more implausible than your reasons for why the US allegedly invaded Iraq is Noam's idea for what should have been done (Noam is the same person ranting against the US media in the cons video) The US should have funded the Iranians to declare war on the Iraqis and fight the war for us? At this point I still have 3900 characters left but even that is not enough to completely tear into that argument based on no facts, no evidence, no collaboration from others who actually know anything about military strategy, etc. As for South America, the con admits he was lying about the US occupying Brazil and Argentina (keep that in mind when you vote) As for the other cases of the US intervening (not occupying) south American nations try to take a look for yourselves at the source I provided. The times that the US did intervene was to protect the democratic governments of these nations from communist and dictatorical movements and to try to bring down dictatoral governments that already existed for the sake of world peace in the region. the casualties were the results of the movements the US funded the US didnt actually kill anyone like the Con is trying to say. I agree that 1974 (it was actually in 1973) was a long time ago, yet you used it in your argument and the intervention was to bring down a marxist president who would have driven the country into the ground. .. . My source shows how the US never occupied any territory in South America since 1966. The source the con gave regarding Iran shows only how the US intervened to try to evacuate their own embassy during the revolution. .. . Also regarding East Timor, indonesia was the biggest factor in the genocide and the US and the outside role played a very limited role, as my other sources have already shown. .. . We did not invade Somalia, we intervened to bring food to them because they were suffering from the worst famine Africa had seen in decades, it is not the fault of the US that the Somali government is terrible we only wanted to feed the starving civilians, theres nothing wrong with that. Philippines - The US corrected their mistake and decided to let them govern themselves, as for the election fraud thats their own fault not the US Cuba - we embargoed them to prevent World War III for the sake of world peace, my argument is relevant. .. . China - as far as history sees it China was liberated from Japanese occupation from US intervention. however "unethical" you claim it is it still ended the largest war in world history. France - Our supplies helped them though and that is what helped them survive. Also you conveniently left out the WWII argument I had. Britain - the RAF didnt overcome the german submarines blockading the isles and almost forcing Britain into submission through starvation, the US supply ships did that. Maybe you should re-read that textbook Israel - You havent given any actual proof that the US encouraged the oppression of the Palestinians so until you do so this argument still stands. You completely ignored my other ideologies and the two you gave, one you made up and the other you utterly lied about. I never listed womens suffrage as a US invention and constitutionalism has spread throughout most of the world. . http://en.wikipedia.org... seems pretty worldwide to me. .. . All in all the US has been the home to many innovations and inventions that have greatly benefited the world, some of which drive the entire economies of entire nations. Just because the US isnt number 1 at them anymore does not mean the US never ever contributed anything at all to those fields like the Con believes. The US has saved many nations from foreign occupation while also providing aid to deprived regions to help people, all in the name of world peace or ending world hunger. The US has had a hand in bringing down many infamous people in history while also developing their own ideologies which changed the world as we see it. The US has been a contributor to science and medicine and even today is doing society in whole much good. Is the US perfect, no. Are they sort of close? Nope. Have the US provided a great deal of benefit to the world? Yes.