RIP. Honorable man when there are so few in Washington these days. His vote to kill the pathetic attempts to repeal Obamacare and replace with something provably worse will be in the history books.
Name a nation that has been at war, consistently, ceaselessly, for the entirety of its existence (give or take a few years of Civil War, when it wasn't expanding or jostling with other predators)?
The US has an abysmal record in the world, that's just a fact of being an empire. As an empire I don't think it's the worst (I'd much rather it than say the USSR or some Muslim global Caliphate).
The UK is the US' ally in all its wars, I don't deny that. Still doesn't make the US any better.
Most nations in the world keep to themselves, which is all that anybody can really ask of other nations (and people!),
And remind me. Don't some folks try to say Isolationism is a BAD Thing?
So many "isms' nowadays.
Hay. Don't get me wrong. I would have no prob if the U.S response to some "Allie" of ours getting the Back Door Fascist Game of Tag they let happen to themselves and they looked to the U.S with that tired old "Save Us" Plea if we just smiled and gave em this response...
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Israel is a cancer in the Middle East, just like Saudi Arabia.
How many times has Israel bombed Syria, Lebanon, Iran and any other regional nation that it believes is a "threat"?
Given that it is basically a US protectorate (like Saudi Arabia), I don't think it matters what other regional nations "want" to do, they can't and won't. Ever.
Also, Iran's bluster is just that, bluster. Like when North Korea threatens to destroy Japan or hit US territory.
I'm no fan of Muslims but, Israel is a cancer, it was formed by wiping out the Palestinian population of the land it now occupies and it only got to occupy the land by basically promising to con the US into entering into WW1 to help Britain in its insane - and vain - quest to keep Germany from becoming a rival power in Europe.
So your saying we should relocate all of Israel to the U.K then? I am sure You would have no prob with tunnesl being built under Kindergarten Schools filled with bombs set to go off under them. Sure the Sex Slavers would have to move into New Tunnels of their own....
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Israel basically created Hamas to get the Palestinians to switch from being secular Fatah-based opponents to Islamist terrorists.
It worked and now Palestinians are their own worst PR nightmare.
As for the children stuff, Israel actively kills 8yr olds, snipes them in view of the world and nothing happens.
Also, just how many women and children do you imagine Israel bombed to death in its frequent mass-casualty bombings?
Palestinian terrorism pales in comparison. Regardless what the US propaganda orgs. try to pump out.
Britain did offer to settle the Jews of Europe in Uganda, iirc. Might be an idea to move them to South Africa ... They're going to be needing good farmers soon, it seems.
Hitler was also willing to help with the relocation, if I recall correctly. The Nazis made a great point of saying how they basically had the same outlook as the Zionists.
Yes Uganda, the UK used to have the might to make such proposals credible, back then. Not particularly moral but ... It was an offer.
I think there have been several alternative "Israels" proposed, since at least the time of Theodor Herzl.
Yes Africa has a Muslim problem, a pretty hilariously savage one too. Lots of internal wars between the same basic racial group. With the Muslims thinking that they're somehow "Arab" or have "Arab blood" and are thus superior to their fellow black Africans.
As I say, I don't think the US is a particularly *bad* Empire, but it is an Empire and it is involved all over the world, for its own ends.
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I don't know why some of you are going on about being right and winning. Rob and Impediment were in on this gag because I PMed them. Silent and Rao PMed me and figured I changed the post. I highly doubt anybody thought Quan made the post, but simply played along just for the lulz.