Get your head out of your ass. This statement is years old and the Airbus was not even flying yet. And it says right in it "besides russia".
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yes, I have read that, but it is still not true.
the french firm Sud Aviation sold 20 of their Caravell jet airliner planes to the U.S. United Air Lines in 1960, and the type were operated by many airlines all over the world and several hundred of these planes were made.
the supersonic TU144 and Concorde both flew before 1970, and the Boeing SST project were put on hold, probably because it was too expensive to pursue after the Concorde had beaten them to it.
so to say that the europeans can`t make aeroplanes is just arrogant.
and remember the Soviets leading the way into space in the 50`s and 60`s with Sputnik and Juri Gagarin?
the US of A did everything they could to catch up, and succeeded in the late 60`s. America is a very resourceful country, and if you decide to do something you will eventually succeed, but there`s smart people in every country around the globe, not just USA.

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This statement and your comments go to show how under appreciated America is. You pick out parts that you can dispute - but you can't dispute the fact that Americans have hurried to aid of others over 5000 times - and noone has ever tried to aid them.
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that many people hate America is obvious after tuesdays tragic event, but most of the western world have very good relations with the U.S. and we thankfully remember the aid we got after WW2. but have you ever stopped to think about why many people dislikes the U.S?
can you understand that people living in Latin America hates the U.S after suffering under U.S backed dictatorships where civillians were being tortured and killed by people trained and equipped in the U.S.A?
Senator Joseph Kennedy said this about the so-called "The School of the Americas ":
"Our country," Kennedy says, "has taught those soldiers how to create suffering amongst the poorest people of Latin America....[The SOA training] manuals taught tactics that come right out of a Soviet gulag and have no place in civilized society."

when you understandably feel anger towards the terrorists who killed all those people in the WTC, can you then understand the anger some people have against the U.S.A?

some people estimate that about 1 million children have died as a result of the sanctions against Iraq, even though you might feel the sanctions justified, don`t you think the parents of a dead child in Iraq will feel the same hatred towards America that you feel now?
is an American life more worth than one in Columbia, England or Egypt?

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You also can't dispute the fact of the billions of dollars other countries owe the Americans - though America even when times are tough will never ask for the money back.
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I have never said that this is untrue, but America is not alone in doing this.
most, if not all, industrialized country`s give aid to the underdeveloped ones without asking for their money back. many countries give a bigger percentage of their National Income than the U.S does. and America also own the U.N about one billion dollars.

To conclude this long posting: I am not saying America is a worthless country of idiots, but please be a bit more polite towards other countries, because if you go behind the headlines you`ll see that things are not as black and white as they may seem...

Regards
Eivind Lunde