easel wrote on Dec 5
th, 2008 at 9:25pm:
Of course they wouldn't help the Aborigines, it was just an example of overwhelming firepower used to force a regime change. Like what happened with Israel.
What nonsense. There was no 'regime change', there was no Palestinian regime. BMP was under British rule, and they left voluntarily. The only overwhelming firepower was something like 8 Arabic countries that attacked the poorly armed and trained citizens army of holocaust survivors in Israel, who kicked the Arab's collective asses. There were no US troops or UK troops helping them. They did it by themselves.
Quote:Britain would not help us. America would, only because of Pine Gap. Even then, they'd try and work their way out of it
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I'm not even remotely worried by external enemies. The only group that could invade Australia is China, and even then it would have to go through all the other psychos in Asia first to get to us. Its not a realistic outcome. We neither need the US nor anyone to defend us.
Quote:By the way, when was the last Jewish prophet? I think God has slightly abandoned the Jews.
If you believe in God. He kind of went the way of the tooth fairy and santa for me once I was about 12.
Quote:Haven't you noticed just how much trouble the world is in, and how most of the conflict is centred around the middle east? If Israel didn't exist in the middle east as a Jewish state, and the west didn't support them militarily, we would live in a much safer environment.
No we wouldnt. Islam has been attacking Europe since shortly after the time of Mohammed. And there was no Israel then.
The Barbary Pirates were attacking the USA in the 1780s. Thomas Jefferson met with their diplomats and asked them, why is it that you attack the USA, when we are a new country that have done nothing to you? Here is what Jefferson told Congress he said:
Quote:As Jefferson later reported to the State Department and Congress, "The Ambassador answered us that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners".
Sound familiar? No US foreign policy to blame. No Israel to blame. Just the Koran, saying the same stuff then that it still says today. Even back then, there were 'misunderstanders of the true message of the Religion of Peace.'
Initially as dhimmis, Congress decided to pay protection money to the Barbary Pirates. Eventually, they sent in the US Marine Corps to the capital Tripoli, and wiped them out. That was the end of the Barbary Pirates. Thats where you get the words of the Marine Fight song 'to the shores of Tripoli.'
[Oops, should have posted my source:
http://ibloga.blogspot.com/2007/01/keith-ellison-attempts-to-rewrite.html ]