[thechat] P.o.Ws - Thought this was interesting...

[Ron White]

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1) We don't claim absolute moral authority as often
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You did when you were the world's dominant power...

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2) We weren't founded with principles of liberty and equality
    (I wish we had been), which leads to (1)
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We were founded with those principles being applied pretty much to only
white males, hasn't changed much has it?

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3) More of our citizens are prepared to say how much our
     policies suck
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Again not when you were the dominant World power.
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4) We don't therefore have as many blinkers about how we're
     perceived by the world at large, so tend to behave less badly[1]
     we see the results more clearly. Why do terrorists attack? Because
     they hate. Why do they hate..? Claiming moral superiority while
     ignoring the Geneva Convention when it suits is hardly going to
     help.
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Wasn't it the Brits who coined the phrase "helping our little brown
brothers"?
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5) We mostly stopped doing that shit in the period between the
     Boer War and when we left India.
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Well seeing as how England/Britain was a nation for what, close to 800 or so
years before they started acting "decent" I'd say we're right on track...
:-)


Ron