the best of your ccountry

[Mongoloid Cow]

The best of my country... being amongst the first to give women equal rights and voting rights. Never having slavery (except for those banana-benders *shudders* ). The peaceful federation of Australia as opposed to the more violent unions which were / are common elsewhere. Gallipoli. Fighting against Germany and Japan in WWII from the get-go.

The worst of my country... not letting Aboriginals have voting and equal rights until the Sixties. The White Australia Policy (although on the flip-side we also phased it out over about 20 years, and we weren't nearly as bad as South Africa and Zimbabwe).

 

[Immortal]

Helping defeat Nazi Germany, in doing so ensuring Germany could never give rise to a dispicable person like Hitler again or threaten the world.

 

[Cashie]

Winning the Viet Nam War. Since we got out of that mess, and brought our soldiers home from a conflict that was neither necessary or ultimately win-able.

 

[Bugfatty300]

Winning the Viet Nam War. Since we got out of that mess, and brought our soldiers home from a conflict that was neither necessary or ultimately win-able.

I would hardly call that winning in any context. I guess in your simular context you could say the U.S. won the Vietnam War since it pulled out also.

 

[Elgalad]

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

These radical notions were written in a Declaration of Independence from the British Empire in 1776. The Congress of the United States of America were not the first people to debate or declare these things, but they Were the first to take the next step and make them a reality.

-Elgalad

 

[Cashie]

Winning is a bit of an exaggerration. But we did not sustain the amount of casualties which the US did. Then again, more Australians were killed by 'friendly fire' from a certain ally, than by the Viet Kong

 

[Bugfatty300]

Winning is a bit of an exaggerration. But we did not sustain the amount of casualties which the US did. Then again, more Australians were killed by 'friendly fire' from a certain ally, than by the Viet Kong

To be fair that is only because Australian troop involvment was a fraction of the U.S. was in Vietnam.

 

[Jawz II]

best of my country:

we were tought to not take credit for things we didnt do!

 

[Verbose]

Sweden:
World's oldest constitutional Freedom of Speech act (actually the freedom to print). "Tryckfrihetsförordningen" of 1766.

 

[Emp.Napoleon]

Hey, if you study the major battles between Wellington and Napoleon, you'll see that Wellington has lost all of them but one, while Napoleon has won all of them but one.

Napoleon would have won Watterloo if the Prussians had not shown up.

 

[Cataphrak]

Good thing about canada:
Money
Peace
Hockey
Bilingual
Liberal
...nuff said