Posted on 06/17/2017 5:21:51 AM PDT by Kaslin
I asked a good friend of mine who is Bosnian “who is right and who is wrong in the warring in his birth country?” His answer was: at what point in time to do you want me to offer an answer?”
So too is the situation with Great Britain. The GB of today doesn’t look a thing like the GB of WWI and II. Then again, the America of today doesn’t look like it did then either. Sad on both scores, and the determining “factor” has been “immigration.” The so-called drive for “diversity” has been destroying both countries for 70 years or more.
It’s where we came from. Note our closest allies: Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. The Anglosphere.
The connection between Great Britain & the US runs a little deeper than just saying “we speak the same language”.
Both also have similar cultural outlooks - namely, a respect for the individual, religious tolerance, “acceptance of the eccentric”, and a focus on business and the consumer (the country described as “a nation of shopkeepers” naturally gave birth to “the business of America is business”) that you didn’t see in other countries. Add in a similar common-law-based justice system, similar military structure, similar civil-administrative systems, etc., and the two are natural complements.
But as for Great Britain acting lousy towards Americans in the early 1800s, be assured even GB’s own colonists at the time were ticked off. In Canada, a good example were the naval “press gangs” that roamed colonial Halifax. Because conditions in the Royal Navy were so bad, they had a constant problem with sailors deserting - so to solve the problem, they just created mob gangs of sailors that literally grabbed men off the streets and “pressed” them into naval service. Think about that - you could go out for a nice evening walk in Halifax, then around the corner comes a press gang, you get beat up and kidnapped - when you wake up you’re doing menial duty on some RN ship in the middle of the Atlantic with no chance of escape! No wonder many Canadian colonists wanted to separate.
Yes we do.
We inherited our culture, language, legal system, and religion from Britain. She's our mother country and as long as we both retain vestiges of Anglo-Saxon culture, we'll share a special relationship. In 100 years Britain will be a caliphate and the US will be another poor, socialist Hispano nation, the top of the string from South America through Central into North America. When that happens, our special relationship will be no more.
I'm not racist by any means, nor am I Anglo-Saxon, but the Anglo-Saxons as a group have accomplished amazing things in human history. It will be a shame when they pass from the earth, replaced by teeming hordes of 3rd worlders with no appreciation for the culture that build great nations.
I don't recall that USA citizens were clamoring for American “supremacy” in the 1930s.
More than half of American families were totally stressed about paying next month's rent and food bill in the Great Depression.
And more than half of USA voters wanted America to avoid foreign wars.
Maybe Roosevelt wanted American supremacy, but the rest of America, too? I doubt it.
I think the author's unrestrained idolatry for Roosevelt (one of "the two greatest leaders of the 20th century") has affected his political judgment.
All of the European nations backed the weaker side during a revolution with the expectation that their support drained the power of the stronger side, with both sides ending up drained.
The Brits were also known to involve as many allies as they could when they got into a war. When Italy attacked Greece and was getting the snot beat out of them , the Brits told Greece they would "help". Greece sais "No, thanks, we can do this by ourselves" knowing the game. The Brits came in anyway and suddenly they had the Germans come in to bail out the Italians, ending up with the mini Dunkirk there and the German occupation of Greece.
The British talk funny and they have nice Page 3 girls to look at.
Minnesodians
Oh, thanks
We are tied by blood, language, culture, trade, and history.
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