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Originally posted by Grimpachi
reply to post by HelenConway
Who said anything about wars I said policing which is ongoing even today. We have been kind enough to not bill you but you can bet on a bill with those demands.
Originally posted by Grimpachi
I think you have mistaken me for someone in power that has a say in dealings of the world.
I may be mistaken but it seemed that response was addressed to me my apologies if it wasn’t.
I guess custodian is a good enough description of the US the title is interchangeable with janitor in the states. Like a janitor we clean up messes but never to the point where it sparkles but just enough to get the job done. Like a janitor we are sick of the job and wish someone else would do it or at least keep their own space clean and I would hazard a guess that many janitors are sometimes so fed up with it they wish they could walk away maybe even burn the place to the ground so they would never have to deal with it again but that doesn’t apply to their own home just their place of work. After all it is a dirty job but someone has to do it but it doesn’t mean we are happy about it.
Using analogy’s works well in parallels but it never describes the situation perfectly it only can get so close.
Originally posted by Grimpachi
reply to post by HelenConway
no need to ask the same question twice.
Let me ask you this. Does the UK get oil from the Middle East? Does the UK have goods from Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Pakistan, china, or does it have everything it needs already? Have you watched the movie I talked about because that would be good bases to answer your questions and actually it would answer most of the questions being asked? It isn’t the end all say all but it is a good jumping off point.edit on 13-1-2013 by Grimpachi because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by HelenConway
Originally posted by Grimpachi
reply to post by HelenConway
no need to ask the same question twice.
Let me ask you this. Does the UK get oil from the Middle East? Does the UK have goods from Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Pakistan, china, or does it have everything it needs already? Have you watched the movie I talked about because that would be good bases to answer your questions and actually it would answer most of the questions being asked? It isn’t the end all say all but it is a good jumping off point.edit on 13-1-2013 by Grimpachi because: (no reason given)
Well I am not clear what you mean - where is the link to the movie.
Britain has different relationships to the above countries then the US. We do not get goods and services from Pakistan but we do have 6 million of their countrymen living within our shores.
Why does Japan need policing or China ?
Just because the US Navy is patrolling the South China Seas, does not mean that the rest of us want it or should pay for it to do so.
Why is the US even involved in Korea ? Why should we pay for this ' service' when we did not request it ?
Why is the US even involved in Korea
Originally posted by Grimpachi
reply to post by daskakik
It is not just the money the US spends in the international economy in fact that is a very small part of what the US contributes internationally. The US is the single largest military presence in the world and without it the world would destabilize into chaos. The US didn’t even want to get involved in Bosnia and Kosovo but the UN was powerless they couldn’t do anything even with UN troops on the ground, it took US intervention to quell that mess and that was the UKs backyard. Without US intervention the Middle East and Asia would destabilize without a doubt most likely resulting in WW3 so your view on the affect the US has on the world is seriously misinformed. You need to look at the big picture not just the small fragment you understand.