Regarding the Attacks in Paris:

ISIS began it's march out of Syria not Iraq. We only started hearing major news about them when they started killing thousands in Iraq. Who had a major had in Syria these last few years? It was Obama and his BS stance of a "red line" and his continued support of the "Arab Spring" which turned out so well for a majority of the countries involved...

If we hadn't given you Magna Carta, you BillRM, would still be climbing up trees and shitting on people, so a bit of gratitude is in order instead of your slobbering decrepitude.

Good one

Nonsense plain and simple.

You need to realize that izzy is a uber-nationalist Brit and an anti-American of the first degree. His empire is in ruins and ours, for now at least, remains in place. It frosts his ass big time.

Which, by the way, your nation joined in on.

Poor Izzy forgets that Iraq was an artificial creation of the British Empire, deliberately created as an unstable amalgum of contending cultures ( Shia, Sunni and Kurd in the case of Iraq) to make imperial control of the balance of power easier and more economical. The Ottomans had better sense, having three distinct provinces (Basra, Baghdad, and Mosul for the contending parties. Britain created and claimed Iraq as an imperial prize of WWI, but got kicked out by Ottoman/Arab resistence in the early 1920s. Sadly the borders remained and it has been unstable ever since.

But izzy will tell you (as he will respond to the fact that the UK was right beside the US in the Iraq War) that the British people never wanted any of that to happen.

You station troops in our homes without leave and you search our homes without warrants and you set up courts on warships to bypass colony courts beside taxing us without allowing us any seats in parliament.

A large in fact a very large percent of our government was base on the early Rome Republic not the English Empire.

Clutching at straws again Finn. You'll side with anyone. I'm a Socialist, an anti imperialist. I don't believe in empires.

Blair committed us to that against the will of the people, and in one stroke ensured that our unconditional support was a thing of the past.

Yeah, right, eh, Izzy? As if you ever supported him in the first place. We all know you wouldn't "support" anyone who wasn't a damn flaming commie, eh?

Have you wondered what your language skills would be like if we'd not given you English. You can't even speak that, but if you take it away all you're left with are swamp grunts.

But how you long for Brittania to rule the waves.

And yet your criticism of the US for invading Iraq knows no limitations.

He's not anti american to the first degree. He does get pithy about some of our assertions, and has curbed from generalizing, pretty much over time. Heck, we're friends, and I'm as american as one gets, except for the native tribes from yore and presently. Heritage-wise, I'm a late bloomer. Americans differ among ourselves on world views and views of our history, and some of us have more, ah, empathy for the rest of the world population.

That's not big slam at you, as I'd don't take you as uninterested in the rest of the world, which some parcel of americans are/seem to be. You and I have long differed, but I still read you.

Well we'll just have to agree to disagree.

He might not mind americans who are unhappy re our doings from time to time in varied parts of the globe.

Look, I'm not going to go into a detailed explanation of how anti-American izzy is. You wouldn't accept it and I can't be bothered. If you see him as a kindred soul, so be it.

I kinda look at it this way, Finn. Where's there's smoke, there's fire. I mean, like, there's gotta be some reason everyone calls him Dizzy, instead of Izzy, know what I'm sayin?