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

"William Black" <william.black@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message 
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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.
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> It wasn't called 'terrorism' then.  You're using modern terms and modern 
> morality on an event far away in history.
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>> 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.
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> Well no.
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> The 'war party' was also against the expansion of the US military.
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> 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...
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> 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.
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> Do you honestly think the British government would start a war with the 
> USA when fully engaged on the European continent?
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> 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?
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> -- 
> William Black
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> 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.
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Well they were "troubled" enough to send an expeditionary force to the Cape 
of Good Hope to invade and takeover an insignificant Dutch colony.

Roger