Posted on 11/18/2018 5:55:34 AM PST by Nextrush
For far too long we in this country have thought we were richer, more powerful and, in general, better than we actually are. Now we find out the hard truth, exposed in all its gloomy detail by the EU talks. Will we learn the necessary lesson, or will we prefer our precious illusions?
I can just remember in the mists of my childhood memory the 1956 Suez crisis, the feeling of panic and humiliation in the air.
In that year, too many of us continued to imagine we were more important than we were. The Americans wasted no time in letting us know that we no longer ruled the waves, harassing our ships at sea and threatening us with bankruptcy on the world markets.
The sense of decline was especially strong in our house, since my father was a Naval officer.....
Then came the Profumo affair. A once-respected governing class was caught with its trousers down....
Thatcherism, much misunderstood and over-rated at the time, did little to reverse the underlying decline....
... Clinton took the side of the Provisional IRA against Britain, his supposed closest democratic ally, and forced us to give in to terror.....
What sort of deal did you think such a nation could get from our giant German-dominated neighbor? I'd hoped to shake loose from the frightful European Arrest Warrant but nobody seems to have asked for that, thanks to our weird obsession with trade over all else...
But this is what we can get and if we do not take it, then it will be Suez all over again-a few brief weeks of heady fantasy, and many long hard years paying the bill for our illusions.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Not where I'm at on this issue, but its his opinion and I read it.
And it’s going to get a lot worse when Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, and Northern Ireland ditch England and set up their own republic.
Hitchens has consistently advocated that young people under the age of 30 leave the country.
Wait, is he related to Christopher Hitchens?
Does Brexit really make any difference since many agree with Nigel Firage that THE END is near for the EU too?
Suggestion :
San Fran,LA,Sacramento,etc ,set up their own republic.
Hitchens has consistently advocated that young people under the age of 30 leave the country.
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Well, they’ve got to make room for their incoming Third World Muslim rulers.
If you think you can just talk this country into nonexistence, you might have serious problems in your ability to understand reality.
If present trends continue, they'll flee like the place is on fire--which it probably will be.
Mainly, Britainistan is now an “Asian” controlled island next to the quickly surrendering Europe.
I think it's the EU which would be crushed under the economic boot heel of an alliance between US, UK, Hungary, Poland, Austria, and whichever countries decide to join the exodus.
Macron and Merkel are terrified of the possibility of an exodus.
Good idea. But US “protectorates” with no vote in US elections.
Well you are small and debt-ridden but I would not say that no one cares about you. The US certainly does care about you. You are like our parent!
Why would you read it?
Do you people LIKE to get upset?
Or waste time knowing what direction said paper or author ALWAYS goes in?
It feels like it’s illegal to post good news here sometimes or constructive articles :)
That’s true. I would advocate women especially to leave so as to avoid getting raped. And I mean women of all ages. But particularly the blond pretty ones. But I don’t think the elderly are immune either.
They made their bed now they have to lie in it. They should never have accepted so many refugees.
He should advocate pushing Britain to align with the US.
Didn’t read close enough the first time.
My apologies.
Take the deal and then renege?
They will do battle with Germany again even if it’s not militarily this time. Yet.
No fear. The muslims will do that. They will cut off their heads.
His brother.
Regards,
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