IS AMERICA A BULLY?

Nuclear weapons were not used, due to being "unrestrained." They were used to save American (and Japanese) lives during what would have been the storming of the Jap islands. You might not have a real emotional connection to the Pacific Theater, since I do not think your Marines were captured and tortured by Gook Japs.

I don't think the U.S. would have saved a bunch of English speaking sheep that lived on an island off the Argentine coast.

YOU are in fantasy land, Frank. Or rather, in propaganda territory. Napoleon could have burnt Europe to the ground. He didn't, and instead spread some of what we consider today as basic freedoms, such as equality of all religions and origins before the law or homosexual rights...

I am aware that in your little fantasy history, Napoleon is a bad guy. I don't like the guy either, but he knew enough politics to be magnanimous and restrained.

And yes, Darius' behavior was on a par with the US attitude to Japan and Germany post WW2. Agreed that it was time-bound, but US policy of non-bullying was also short-lived.

Romans set up many vassal states, like you guys are trying to do... And the times were to empire building. The Roman Empire lasted for so long and did so much good (and some bad) that even the barbarians who brought it down felt sorry for it, and everybody else has been looking up to Rome ever since. Just look at the architecture of Washington DC or any US state Capitol to see how lasting impact Rome had on western culture and imagination. Including political culture - where do you think the word "senate" comes from?

Enough real history. Now make me laugh!

You really are pig ignorant Fluff. Try learning some facts for once.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chindits

Quite right. The European powers, the Japanese, including Russia in WWII, used their tumescent penis missiles to rape women in the invaded countries. Half-breed children had no real life, born to the mothers, or had to maintain secrecy that their fathers were the invading army. I do not believe rape was a weapon of war for the U.S. military. Other than Scandanavia, Europeans were originally brown haired and brown eyed.

The Stones are better, in my opinion.

That's because the U.S. is 3,000 miles wide, and many people are alienated from New Yorkers, not just New York Jews. Much of it is sour-grapes, in my opinion.

I'm more of a Stones fan myself...although I will say that whenever I visit Central Park (which I do often) I always stop my the Lennon remembrance in Strawberry Fields and reflect on what he was trying to impart.

Glad everyone is still here.

My opinion still is that the US has shown remarkable restraint...certainly more than any previous preeminent world power as far as I can tell.

The fact that I am willing to speak up for my country rather than adding to the noise that likes to think of it as a cesspool...seems to really irritate some people.

To them I say: TOUGH!

Although I am totally willing to acknowledge they have a right to think of the US and the people who live here any way they want.

That is not only the most pig ignorant post that I've read in a long time, it probably sums up the utter bewilderment a lot of people feel when they experience this sort of shite from a certain sort of American.
You, dear boy, just about sum up the arrogant c*nt that seems to get most noticed when this sort of thing is being discussed,
You are either dense, or you do it to rile. I think that you do it to rile, personally, which I think brings shame on your country, as other Americans get lumped into the same pot.

For a start, it's not always about America, never mind how the makers of Private Ryan want to portray it. You cannot simply re-write history and think that you will get away with it.
Three whole stinking years before America even joined the fray, British and Anzac prisoners were being routinely tortured in Japanese prison camps in various places across the far east.
My uncle was one of them. I, personally, experienced him waking up the whole household with his screaming at night, not just on the odd occasion, but at least once a week during the three months he stayed with us.
This went on for more than twenty years after his war ended, until he discovered valium and other such knockout potions.
He would never ever talk about what happened, and boycotted anything remotely Japanese for the rest of his life. My dad had to hold him back once (in Oxford Street, supposedly christmas shopping) in the 60's, when a party of Japanese tourists went by. Apparently, this brother of his suddenly turned into a foaming jibbering wreck just through hearing Japanese being spoken. A copper got involved and my uncle was almost arrested.
Then shits like you come along and write him out of history. Shame on you.

1. Go and see The Railway Man (should be at the cinemas now, as it's just been released). Or read the book. Or at least look it up.

2. If you are too arrogant/ignorant to bother, then at least read this account, or try some other ways to educate yourself at least slightly about this part of the war.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1254168/Monsters-River-Kwai-One-British-POW-tells-horrifying-story.html

Foofie, who is Miller's sock puppet, is a bigot, a racist, a hate merchant. HMS Prince of Wales was sunk by the Japanese. British and Canadian troops defended Hong Kong and became prisoners of war. British and Australian troops defended the Malay Peninsula and Singapore, and were made prisoners of war. British troops were captured in the crown colony on Borneo, which is now the nation of Sarawak. Of course, British troops fought the Japanese in Burma. British subjects, including women and children, were interned by the Japanese in China, in Singapore and in Burma.

Foofie us a turd-stirrer, and a hateful puke. Like all bigots of her ilk, her bigotry is abetted by her ignorance, her invincible ignorance. My advice is to ignore Foofie--you won't miss a thing.

No it's because you're a loathsome piece of ****.

Minor inaccuracy:

The crown colony was a single entity, dipshit.

You know, Timur, you really have become an asshole. Why don't you find someone else to follow around, looking for nits to pick?

Insults don't change the fact that Sarawak is now a Malaysian state and not a nation.

I provided it as a matter of information..

You provided it because you can't resist the opportunity to nitpick, such as above, when i misspelled chauvinism. Dickhead. The insults are merited based on your snotty behavior.

However, you always say you don't indulge in insults if you are not insulted beforehand.

Given the above, this is not true.

Well isn't that special . . . we have our very own Church Lady . . . the only difference being that you cherish a grudge. Get a life, clown.

No, thanks.