French and German leaders mark WW1 anniversary

bbc.com ^ | 3 August 2014 | bbc

[jmacusa]

BTW, have you a soft spot for monarchies or something? You remember don’t you how we, America, came to be, right?

[Reaganez]

Monarchies, particularly, the British Monarchy are part of who WE are as Americans.

Americans did not appear out of thin air in Plymouth.

We have a past that many date back to the Magna Carta but that stretches far beyond that.

Our Ancestors are not evil because they are not exactly like us. Nor stupid or bigoted.

[miss marmelstein]

While we all admire the Magna Carta we also know that King John was forced to it.

I have nothing against the monarchy of England, in fact, my tag line refers directly to my favorite king, but I’m not blind to their history. They shed rivers of blood in their time.

[miss marmelstein]

There were no real monarchies during the First World War? Barbara Tuchman - no slouch - places the war directly onto the shoulders of the Kaiser. Tsar Nicholas still had a tiny bit of power as I remember. His bad use of it didn’t help him while revolution was shaking his throne. I think it was World War I that DESTROYED the fate of the monarchies which was not a bad thing.

[jmacusa]

No sir, we are not monarchists. We rebelled against that system of government to become free people. WW1 and 2 were ‘’marriages of necessity'' with the British Crown against a common enemy . Our Constitution gives the individual more freedom that the Magna Carta gave anyone. To me monarchies are inherently evil. And I'm done talking to you ''royalist''..