26 Jun 06
Originally posted by boarmanMore like the former empire (i.e. England or Russia), which will have to go hat-in-hand to the new empire (it will probably be China, India, or (because of techonology and the ability to feed a humongous army) Japan), and tell it NOT to sacntion us and try to find common interests with it, while they laugh at us and tell us that we are behind the times.
Give them enough time and we will be just another state ,like Afghanistan and Iraq ,but we will have to wait in line behind Iran and North Korea they are the next future states.
27 Jun 06
Another good thing about the US is Yellowstone park.
Seemingly it's one massive vulcano which usually blows its lid once every 600.000 years. Everytime it does, it destroys the whole of the US.
And it's 70.000 years overdue...
hahahahhahaahahahha
Bring on that nuclear Winter and make me happy!
28 Jun 06
Originally posted by RedmikeIntriguing comments RedMike.
The last one is a cracker!
PS and "saved the world from the Nazis and Japanese imperialism... ".
We get this here every once in while - obviously teaching history won't be on the list then.
I can say that Americans are terrific neighbours...the ones who visit Nova Scotia certainly seem to be well read...intelligent people who are concerned about world events.
I think that you are really onto something if you are implying that Hollywood tended to portray the American contribution to the allied cause as basically dwarfing that of any other of the allied nations. It is common knowledge here in Canada that our troops did really well in WWI at taking hills and virtually impossible places but in WWII Australians and New Zealanders were the armies to go where just about nobody else could...(with the possible exception of the Ghurkurs from India...the Ghurkur soldiers...from what I have heard would be a match for Ninjas or anybody else who ever lived)....
I think that you rather laughted at his using the word...Peace...
I read an article one time that previous to the breakup of Soviet Union the Russians had gotten ahead of the USA in the production of miniaturized nuclear weapons. If that rumor is true....and since virtually anything and everything in Russia went up for sale with the fall of communism...then perhaps President Bush had good reason to believe that Islamic terrorists could soon aquire these devices unless the war was taken directly into the Middle East... Afghanistan and Iraq seem like pretty good choices if indeed those were the actual conditions.
Obviously President Bush could not publically announce that he had good reason to believe that terrorists had aquired miniaturized nuclear weapons. There could be a panic in many American cities. "The fool tells all his mind."
Personally...I think that the American and British forces deserve a lot of credit for putting Saddam out of power...His pogroms on the Kurds should have been stopped by us supposedly altruistic, brave, generous, freedom loving, democratic people long ago...but President Bush and Tony Blair were the guys to actually follow through and put that man out of power. The world is a somewhat better place as a result. At least the Kurds are sure glad if nobody else is!
30 Jun 06
who says we're not the world's policeman?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060630/ts_nm/britain_hongkong_dc;_ylt=AgwFUwzttVb.tfTb6aQFkRi9IxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b3JuZGZhBHNlYwM3MjE-
"Britain discussed raising the threat of U.S. nuclear retaliation to dissuade China from attacking its Hong Kong colony at the height of the Cold War, previously secret papers revealed on Friday. "