[JLS]

Having lived there for 6 months, it is something. Remember of course 60 years ago they culled out all their dissenters, free thinkers, etc. And you are right, they will get closer this way than the past attempts they have made at taking over Europe.

[Adrastus]

Jaque the crack made an interesting observation in his speech at Normandy. He said that history doesn't repeat itself (Liberating Europe vs liberating Iraq).Any reasonabley literate person knows better. The french are the going to get to test the theory a third time. This time I say "To h*ll with them, they need to become someone elses burden"

Question: Who has not even paid the interest on their WWI debt to the US?

[muawiyah]

Then, way back in the 1840s the Germans purged all their Jeffersonian Democrats!

Most moved to the United States just in time for the American Civil War.