That's a lousy analogy. We'd fight any outside power that tried to invade the Americas. Poland and Belgium are less than a thousand miles from the UK. Doesn't take a genius to see the next course on the dinner menu.
We dont mind you entered both world wars later than us. What we DO object to is the ‘we saved your ass/you’d be speaking German if not for us’ crap. Knock that s*it off and we wont crack remarks about ‘turning up late’.
We weren't late - they weren't our wars. The aspect that bothers me is the extent to which our mass media parrot British propaganda when it's just clear that Brits have a problem with logic as regards the American participation in their wars. For some reason they take our participation in their wars, in which we lost 400K dead between WWI and WWII, for granted while their participation in our wars, in which they lost less than 2K dead, is obviously this great favor for which we must be eternally grateful.
1—The point is that Britain went without hesitation to defend two smaller threatened countries, to the permanent detrement of the UK. And the fact that we have fought and died at America’s side in six conflicts in one century I think shows that we will fight with our allies and our friends and our kith and kin.
2—Dont dare discuss dead soldiers with such sneering contempt.
3—’Our wars’?. Korea was a UN war and a war against Communism, the Persian Gulf was as important to the UK and France as it was to the US and in neither Iraq or Afghanistan did the US act on its own, but again with allies.
How are 1950-54, 1990-1, and Iraq/Afghanistan ‘American’ wars?. Only Afghanistan could be regarded as such, and even then I would question it. Islamic terrorism threatens the west, not just the US, and 300 British died on September 11th.