Saying - and accepting - that Americans (I do not like the aggressiveness inherent in Amerika) are an aggressive society is a bald -and bleak- statement that has nowhere to go from there. If we are aggressive, what are we supposed to do about it?

And if America is aggressive, what does that make other nations, timid?

I don't believe it is true on either hand. I agree that we still have more than a trace of the Wild West left in us, the assumption that the good guys have to overcome the bad guys, and probably by force, but most of us are decent, law-abiding folks who cherish their families, their homes and their country. Most of us would not even consider taking a gun to settle a dispute.

I would go even further and say that most of us are not as argumentative as some other countries' citizens. Have you ever been present when some Europeans quarrel? I have- and in my opinion, most Americans in their disputes are not nearly as insulting or as LOUD.