Posted on 06/30/2009 8:18:46 PM PDT by Flavius
Pity
Give us about 8 years under Obama. We’ll be right behind them. Slash defense to the bone to pay for national health care. It will make our Chinese masters very happy.
Oh yes - they should be more like Belgium. Snort.
Nationalized / socialized healthcare necessarily leads to gutting your defenses. The same will happen to the U.S. if we succumb to the Dem effort to take over healthcare. Only the world will lose its policeman and, as a result, we will have wars all over the world, perhaps in Europe again.
So long Brits. Enjoy your new home on the third tier, and say hello to the Italians for me.
"Tolerance. Acceptance. Diversity."
But, yes, Canada too.
It worked out better for us than it will for Wales.
And if you think that all the independent parts of Great Britain are better off than they would be as part of the greatest empire of the past three hundred years, you need to spend some time in India or Sri Lanka or Pakistan. Cesspools. None of them would be Third World countries today if they had remained part of GB. The hygiene alone would have been worth it.
And your "point," as far as I could tell, was that it was better to be part of a powerful empire (and thus "relevant") than an independent nation. Ukraine fits that assertion quite well. As do most of the former Soviet bloc countries.
I think they better rethink this strategy, as we are nutering our armed forces and won’t be able to defend, nor will Bozo have the will to defend, the free peoples of the world any longer. Maybe the hope of the world will lie with India, maybe they will be the next great free nation that keeps the rest of the world straight, because sure as the sunrise we aren’t going to be there for another 3.5 years at least.
Post #32 nutering should read neutering(maybe a little Freudian slip there). Sorry.
Actually with India’s rapidly growing economy, they could buy the UK within my children’s lifetime.
According to the CIA World Factbook, the demographics of the UK are as follows:
white (of which English 83.6%, Scottish 8.6%, Welsh 4.9%, Northern Irish 2.9%) 92.1%, black 2%, Indian 1.8%, Pakistani 1.3%, mixed 1.2%, other 1.6%
There are a few neighborhoods in some cities with large Muslim populations, but you can go through large swathes of the UK without seeing more than a handful of non-white faces.
Expeditionary forces are expensive, so I’m not surprised that people are suggesting this type of thing.
Realsitically, there are only a handful of nations in the world that can afford to maintain large expeditionary forces, and even fewer that need them.
Man, that picture could have been of me, my wife and our friends during our foolish youth.
But when you get off the plane, it still smells like poop. And the only beautiful things standing are the gorgeous, old, colonial buildings...covered in black mold.
The Empire had its day, but the sun set a long time ago. Like pining for the Assyrian Empire among members of a certain ethnic group.
I'm ashamed of my people and the deliberate, short-sighted destruction of the UK. Can't wait to see how that great socialist Scottish economy thrives the next few years. And Wales will get crushed like a grape.
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