[hedgetrimmer]

Economics simply overwhelms any rampart

Then I wonder how the American Revolution was won. Certainly economics was on the side of the British corporations who chartered the settlement of this country.

If the tenets of Americanism would be revived in this country, then your kind would be vanquished post haste. This is why you all deplore patriotism, unrevised US history, freedom of association, sovereign borders and the rights of citizens over the interests of transnational corporations. If you had any affection for America, you would stand up for citizens rights, representative government and not international tribunals, and stop stealing from the American taxpayer to advance your business interests through trade capacity building in countries that use slave and child labor.

[Torie]

Your post is one long rant, and I will let it stew in its own juices, but let me say one thing. When it came to the Brits subduing America in in the 18th century, the economics for doing so really, really sucked (America was so far away, so big, the populations so disbursed, the economy so agrarian), particularly after the French supplied gunpowder and naval power to give it that extra muscle to make it more decisive, quicker, than it otherwise would have been. It was sort of like the Russian adventure in Afghanistan.