How many lives has the United States saved in your lifetime?

If I've lectured anybody, I'm heartily sorry about that. However this is not about you, or me.
I'm not sure what I could usefully contribute to the other thread. I don't know the answer posed, for a start.
There's no question that I, and everyone else in Europe, owes a huge amount to the USA. There's a lot of love here for the USA. But those of us who can read try to see the big picture.

You are throwing posits here.

Some of may agree with you. Read the thread title.











some of

No, yes, no, no.

One thing that can help you understand this thread is that while there is a strong correlation between saving lives and doing good they are quite different things. I am not at all trying to establish the latter, just the quantity of the former.