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of course, my good sir or madam! :)
clearly the best things--modern internet for example--are the result of collaboration without regard to nation of origin )
Well, to be fair, let us also count things the US did wrong:
C++ | Bell Labs | USA
XML | IBM | USA
UML | IBM | USA
SOAP | Microsoft | USA
IE6 | Microsoft | USA
GPL | Stallman | USA
Visual Basic | Microsoft | USA
gcc | Stallman | USA
CORBA | Object Management Group | USA
Electricity | Gilbert/Galvani/Volta | Europe
Telephone | whoever you believe this week | Europe + USA
Computers | VonNeumann / Turing working in USA | Europe + USA
Internet | DARPA | USA
Web | CERN | Europe
Game, set... and match.
(it's all a joke, of course. Just be a sport, will you?)