You are confusing revenues with net income. Ford did not "make" (which means "earns" or "net income" by all definitions of the word) $129 billion, they made (net profit) $6.6 billion in 2010. There are a lot of companies (including Ford) who have had revenues of $129 billion or more and had a negative net income (lost money) in various years. It is usually more useful to compare Ford to the rest the auto industry, rather than GNP of a particular country, especially since Ford is a multi-national global company and their reported revenues and net income are not all attributable to the US.andyb wrote:That is an odd thing to do...... trying to dismiss 1,000,000 people as "not a lot" because they are in a country of over 300,000,000. You might as well say that Ford dont make a lot of money ($129 Billion revenue for 2010) because as a whole the US GDP was $14.6 Trillion - there is a large distinction between "a lot of people" and "a high percentage of people".
In the US, one million people is less than 1/3 of one percent (.32 %) of the population. In terms of public opinion, that is rather small. There are least than many Marxists in the US, but one would hardly say that Marxism is popular political movement in the US (at the present time). There are probably at least one million in the US who believe they have been kidnapped (and returned) by aliens (not the illegal kind, the ones from other planets, etc), or pick any other unusual and/or ridiculous opinion.
You might be shocked about how few people in the US know about IRA terrorism in the UK. That is one reason why Irish "charities" in the US have been so successful in funding the IRA over the years.
Not that many media had websites in 1999, and there have been many other spellings of Al Qaeda. But so what if Al Qaeda was not widely known or reported about back then? What are you implying, that the US made up Al Qaeda or falsely accusing them for the USS Cole or 9/11? That seems to be your tone.andyb wrote:I dont know the best place to look up any mention of Al Qaeda in the past, the only place I know where to look is on the Google news archive section. As an example pre USS Cole attack, a 1-year section of time using the most common speling of "Al Qaeda" gets 58 results.