On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 14:21 -0700, Pat McBride wrote:
> To you all;
>
> Please excuse my bad manners and this blunder {weren't so revolting}in the
> message, I copied part of it from a vent that I wrote to an American friend
> (who'se still a really good friend), but it's still no excuse for bad
> manners.
>
> Humbly,
Can happen to anyone :-)
> >From your e-mail address, and that of Ian, I gather that you are a direct
> subject of Her Britannic Majesty;
On that issue I am technically a subject but don't consider myself
subjugated :-)
Daniel is much more complicated.
> And they're responsible for the creation of some of the most disgusting
> coffee houses in the world; no names, no lawsuit.
You obviously haven't visited the staffrooms in many UK schools ;-)
> Now, if they weren't so revolting, and hadn't revolted, think what an
> interesting place the world would be today. Problems with the Afghans, send
> in a representative of the Foreign Office, a platoon of Gurkhas, and the
> whole thing would be cleared up in a day. The Iraqis are revolting, send in
> a Political Officer to set them straight. The natives of North America are
> rioting, send in a section of soldiers with a good sergeant in charge, end
> of problem.
Snag is that when you interfere something else has a knock on effect. We
could say just nuke em, that will sort out the problem, but what about
afterwards? Problems in Iraq, Israel, Africa - we can see our
interference in all those, which is I guess why Star trek has the prime
directive :-) Unfortunately we are where we are so judgements have to be
made about where and when to interfere which is why we need good
politicians.
Ian
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