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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (4348)	3/22/2002 9:33:30 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

You guys make better friends than enemies. Perfidious Albion, remember? Of course we do. There's a reason we used to have a good war every 30 years or so. What do you think all our carefully bred football hooligans are really wanting to do... just imagine what they're like when they're trained in being, ah, unpleasant <g> The United States is a democracy because of Britain. I think you rather improved on the UK version of the time... democracy was distinctly limited in 1770, basically you had to be rich, male and in the right area. or in one of a few cities, and literate. I rather doubt the British and US armies will find themselves facing each other. </I. Likewise. Alliances notwithstanding, we don't even get to fight the French these days... this would be the first century since ~300AD when an army (or navy) hasn't crossed one way or the other to do some serious damage. Boring, isn't it? What's with the moderate attitude? it's confusing. Luckily I'm flexible in my argumentativeness.