[Alter Kaker]

Who liberated you from Stalin's successors, the tooth fairy? The kindness of Gorby's heart?

I did. I got out.

[JasonC]

Got out to where? Which had freedom why? You can squirm all you want, the eventual answer will be the same. The Brits can honestly say they both led and helped, though not that they could have done it without us. Nobody else on earth, free to say what they want and live as they please, can say even that much, about where they got the privilege. Ingraditude isn't becoming. It is what leads to the putdowns directed at France. Instead of defending their present conduct for their past suffering, you might look at present suffering in places like Iraq, and past conduct of certain conspicuous others. France didn't. Which is a moral failing. And that is why they are catching heck.