<p>Geez, talk about wrong place wrong time…</p>
<p>Any notion that European countries were better than the US (or even had achieved some sort of “European Social model”) went up in flames with the 3000 French cars burned by disenfranchised, poorly integrated, and economically disadvantaged youth).</p>
<p>And no, France is not the exception to the rule. Similar tensions exist in other European countries. Need I remind you of the Van Gogh assassination in your own country? The list goes on…flight of the creative class (your desire to go to Yale being a prime example), high unemployment, shrinking populations…</p>
<p>As for the UN, well, gee, where to begin…I won’t even bother. Anyone who takes that institution seriously either works for it or hasn’t studied it and thus presumes it as functional (thank God for John Bolton, a Yalie no less)</p>
<p>Anyway, this has nothing to do with Yale, Penn, or even Harvard, but Europe and the United States. Both have deeply flawed social systems, but unfortunately, neither seems to have the answer for the other. Even if they did, the other side certainly isn’t listening.</p>
<p>On a side note, the English word for “Irak” is “Iraq”</p>