Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: DieHard the Hunter

I can only make judgements about your lack of knowledge and education based on your posts - which certainly support my opinion. We aren’t arguing viewpoints but the fact of Nazism aligned with Communism to take control of Spain. I’ve lived outside the US for enough years to understand and appreciate informed differences in opinion, as well as to recognize ill-informed, willful or not, bombast.

For someone who has proven themselves proudly parochial in their education and information, resides outside the US, resents the US and presumably lives in some part of the world that has had their collective butts saved twice in the 20th century by the US, and owes their national security for the last 70 years to the benevolence of the US and our willingness to expend our wealth and spill our blood protecting you and your ilk - you certainly appear to have an extremely overdeveloped and unjustified delusion of your own wisdom, opinions and personal significance.


40 posted on 04/04/2008 4:05:34 PM PDT by NHResident
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies ]


To: NHResident

> resents the US

I certainly don’t resent the US. Quite the contrary. I don’t have much time for US Jingoism and Triumphalism — few people outside the US do. But so far as it goes, I am about as good a friend as the US can have.

> and presumably lives in some part of the world that has had their collective butts saved twice in the 20th century by the US,

I think the British, Australians, Canadians and New Zealanders contributed more than adequately during both occasions America “saved collective butts” worldwide — it is worth repeating that during both World Wars last century the US played hooky until most of the hard yards had been played by other countries.

Sorry, that’s just how it was: I didn’t write history, I can only report things as they were. The US chose a policy of “splendid isolationism” during both World Wars right up until the point that the enemy could no longer be ignored.

> and owes their national security for the last 70 years to the benevolence of the US and our willingness to expend our wealth and spill our blood protecting you and your ilk

Again, I think the rest of the world has done an adequate job of spilling its own blood and spending its own wealth in the interests of national security.

Don’t think us ungrateful: we are glad of the US and grateful for assistance given. But nobody asked the US to be the world’s policeman. And there are a fair few countries that would prefer that the US didn’t act unilaterally.

> you certainly appear to have an extremely overdeveloped and unjustified delusion of your own wisdom, opinions and personal significance.

Likewise.


41 posted on 04/04/2008 5:04:51 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson