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Thatcher had little or nothing to do w/the disembowelling of the Empire...And when she took over in '78 or '79, England was in the throes of the worst malaise they'd seen since the war.
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04-16-2010, 07:59 PM
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Thatcher had little or nothing to do w/the disembowelling of the Empire...And when she took over in '78 or '79, England was in the throes of the worst malaise they'd seen since the war.
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I've noticed that as long as you're out there kicking ass and taking names, you do pretty good.
It's when you become enlightened and take up navel gazing that things go South.
Just an observation on my part.
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04-17-2010, 06:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Charles
I've noticed that as long as you're out there kicking ass and taking names, you do pretty good.
It's when you become enlightened and take up navel gazing that things go South.
Just an observation on my part.
Chas
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04-16-2010, 09:49 PM
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I heard a commentary on BBC World News not long ago that described "American Right-wing rhetoric" as "verging on the insane, with nonsense being tossed about such as death panels, concentration camps for the infirm and elderly, hordes of Canadians jamming American health facilities and the like. It's all absolute rubbish, of course. But, the most bizarre part is that so many Americans seem eager to buy into it. One cannot help but wonder if the likes of Rush Limbaugh and the former Alaskan Governor are responsible for this rediculous spectacle."
Amazing the things people on the outside can see when looking in.
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04-17-2010, 06:14 PM
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To put things in perspective, the Soviet Union had more than 20 times the casualties of the US and lost 14% of their population to the war as opposed to 0.32% for the US. BTW, Canada lost 0.40% and the UK lost 0.94%. In absolute terms, the UK lost nearly as many as the US.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_W...ses_by_country
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04-18-2010, 07:20 AM
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I did not mean to disparage the U.S. contribution nor imply that the fighting men and women were not among the bravest and best. However damn few of us are old eenough to have taken part, I was 16 when it ended but had a brother in the army, one in the RCAF and a brother in law in the RCN as well as many friends and acquaintances in the services. War is obscene but should at least be remembered properly.
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04-18-2010, 07:30 AM
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I did not mean to disparage the U.S. contribution nor imply that the fighting men and women were not among the bravest and best. However damn few of us are old eenough to have taken part, I was 16 when it ended but had a brother in the army, one in the RCAF and a brother in law in the RCN as well as many friends and acquaintances in the services. War is obscene but should at least be remembered properly.
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Nor did I. I'm just stunned, however, by some of these numbers. It is astonishing to think that the Russians lost 14% of their total population (and 25% of their army). WWII is burned into their national psyche even more than it is ours.
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04-19-2010, 11:40 AM
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Most people in Europe are well informed on US politics.
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Originally Posted by BlueStreak
I heard a commentary on BBC World News not long ago that described "American Right-wing rhetoric" as "verging on the insane, with nonsense being tossed about such as death panels, concentration camps for the infirm and elderly, hordes of Canadians jamming American health facilities and the like. It's all absolute rubbish, of course. But, the most bizarre part is that so many Americans seem eager to buy into it. One cannot help but wonder if the likes of Rush Limbaugh and the former Alaskan Governor are responsible for this rediculous spectacle."
Amazing the things people on the outside can see when looking in.
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They think they know what's going on, but for most they have a movie/hollywood/leftist view of Americans. This is firsthand experience.
Stalin turned tail and ran like a coward while his troops were being slaughtered, and then enslaved and starved the ones who made it home alive. Not to change the subject, just FYI.
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04-19-2010, 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted by piece-itpete
They think they know what's going on, but for most they have a movie/hollywood/leftist view of Americans. This is firsthand experience.
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Actually, my first hand experience (from 11 years in Germany) was that the average German had a far better knowledge of world history and current events than the average American. Furthermore, he was better travelled and spoke more languages.
As for knowledge of America, they knew way more than the average American knew about Germany, but less than the average American does - naturally. That is not to say, however, that the better read and educated Germans (or Brits) don't know America well. Read The Economist a bit and tell me the Brits are unaware of what's going here.
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