[jpl]

I personally do believe that the two great World Wars did finish Great Britain off as an empire.

I also believe that occasionally things happen in the world that are a lot more important than maintaining an empire. They were absolutely correct in opposing Hitler's mad quest for continental domination when most countries wanted no part of another war.

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I also believe that occasionally things happen in the world that are a lot more important than maintaining an empire. They were absolutely correct in opposing Hitler's mad quest for continental domination when most countries wanted no part of another war.

I hope we learn enough from history to be able to defeat islam, and not lose our own country or its place in the world.

But ya know what? All countries eventually die. We've lived a worthy life, if we must die, better to die a worthy death.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Pick up Max Hastings' new book, "Retribution, the Battle for Japan, 1944-45." The book is a survey of all the Asian battlefields at the close of WW II. Hastings is a historian who concludes Britain couldn't hold India, Burma, etc even if the war had not happened.
Hastings is a Brit, by the way.