Re: Barak Flip-Flops On The American Flag Pin On Lapel

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>>>>> As for terrorists, the next go around (War of 1812) was largely about 
>>>>> the Crown instigating Indian tribes to murder American settlers' 
>>>>> families.
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>>>> And here was me thinking it was all a nasty US plot to steal Canada 
>>>> while the British were busy saving the world from the tyranny of 
>>>> Napoleon.
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>>> As usual, you got it ass backwards.
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>> You mean Nappy was trying to save the world from Perfidious Albion?
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> You're admitting Britain encouraged the tribes to commit terrorism against 
> American settlers on the frontier.

It wasn't called 'terrorism' then.  You're using modern terms and modern 
morality on an event far away in history.

> If there had been any serous plans to do that, they would have had the US 
> military in a state of readiness instead of neglect, going into the War of 
> 1812.

Well no.

The 'war party' was also against the expansion of the US military.

It's an odd thing but the infant US Navy discovered that if people were 
'for' the war they'd also be for the contraction of the US Navy...

What,  of course,  you are quite wilfully forgetting is that Britain was 
fully engaged in fighting what today would be considered a world war, and 
what the US was doing was a cynical land grab while the 'cat' was otherwise 
occupied.

Do you honestly think the British government would start a war with the USA 
when fully engaged on the European continent?

Do you honestly think that a British Empire,  and the largest and most 
powerful navy in the world, with nothing else on its mind would be troubled 
by a small power on the fringes of civilisation?

-- 
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time,  like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.