Re: [OT] Furthering the rant Re: Headgear

At 10:16 AM -0600 11/27/03, Doug Evans wrote:
[snip]
>general), when that morning I'd heard that, of the three headlines for
the
>opening of the news summary, Michael Jackson (ps) was the second,
following
>the deaths in Istanbul.

Our talking head was actually making fun of the 
whole thing. Miles Obrien was saying that there 
was a white bronco to pick up Jackson at the 
Airport.

>I was too pi**ed at my news icon to even hear the third headline...
>
>Vis a' vis, the US press: I've noticed that the small bits I hear from
them
>sound like envy that the Brit's SEEM to be do so well with their own
areas,
>no matter what Karl's come up with in casualty figures. I assumed that
>experience can be a very good teacher, and they've had plenty in the
area,
>much of it in error.
>

British forces have had a long time 
administrating an Empire with dissident forces 
that didn't really want them there. All that time 
they had to keep an uneasy peace to keep things 
calm and they've been at it for centuries with 
out really pissing off the locals. They left the 
colonies in much better states than when they 
claimed them and they still keep good relations 
with most of them with in the Commonwealth.

http://www.britains-smallwars.com/ is an eye 
opener for someone interested in Military history.

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