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To: Shalmaneser
If you're holding out hope for the British Army, then you may as well pack it in. They're great folks. As far as our allies go, they're the only ones next to the Aussies and the Poles that can and will fight. I respect them greatly for their help in Iraq and Afghanistan, where I worked with them many times.

That said,

There's a vein of PC that runs through even the hardest of them. It's an old world superiority complex, that seems to manifest itself as multi-cultural moral indignation. The idea that mass immigration has destroyed their culture, or worse, that the self-evident moral correctness of modern British (multi-)culture is unable to force peaceful co-existence among the less civilized tribes in the former Empire, simply does not compute. They don't get it.

It's like trying to convince Americans that beer, boobs and barbecue aren't all that great. All you'll get are blank looks.

The Brit soldiers are more tough and conservative than their civvie fellows, but they're still reflexively programmed to blame themselves for a lack of tolerance and understanding, rather than hold everyone to the same standards.

3 posted on 08/10/2011 12:37:00 AM PDT by Steel Wolf ("Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master." - Gaius Sallustius Crispus)
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To: Steel Wolf

Appreciate your post and very grateful to you for your service. Thank you & God bless,


8 posted on 08/10/2011 12:47:15 AM PDT by MonicaG (God bless our military! Praying and thanking God for you every day. Thank you!)
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To: Steel Wolf

I suppose that like the Hebrews who fled from Pharoah’s grasp, the English refugees will have to spend a long time “in the wilderness” before they get their old souls back. Time will tell. They can bend over backwards infinitely. At one point, like a reed, they must snap back.


9 posted on 08/10/2011 12:54:44 AM PDT by coydog (Time to feed the pigs!)
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To: Steel Wolf

You might enjoy reading this:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/the_sleeping_giant_awakens.html


24 posted on 08/10/2011 1:43:08 AM PDT by GOPJ (The end of our great nation - caused by 'give it all away' dems. May dems reap what they sown...)
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To: Steel Wolf

I think that PC-whipped attitude came crashing down in the last week.

These arson riots were white England’s Pearl Harbor.


55 posted on 08/10/2011 8:54:26 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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Boobs are great.

BBQ if done right is good...I agree it ain’t gumbo.

Beer..it bloats me and the older you get beer gets in the way of enjoying boobs and it’s even more important eventuality who resides to the south.

Really...boobs and said accomplice...everything else is a distant second in life.


60 posted on 08/10/2011 9:08:24 AM PDT by wardaddy
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