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[RedlineInc]

Do not forget that the french have helped American to have their independence.

Always quick to point this out aren't they? Two Hundred years ago now and they still remember that so much more quickly than that it's been paid back in spades twice in the last century alone.

Also, english and french have no place slamming America for screwing up the middle east. The arbitrary borders enforced on the local populations during France & England's imperialist land grabs in the region following WWI are what created and continue to fuel that powder keg to this day.

Can anyone say Sykes-Picot Agreement??:rtfm:

Did you know that Kuwait really was the 23rd province of Iraq until the British parked soldiers there and took it away from them? (over the oil, of course)

Dardanelles Campaign, Lawrence of Arabia, the actual creation of Nazi nationalist zealotry through the overly crushing terms in the Treaty of Versailles virtually assuring that we'd have to fight that same war over again? Remember America's attempts to stay out of both World Wars? Remember that they refused to go along with the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire and got nothing in the deal in order to not be involved in that travesty? That there were Congressional hearings as to whether America should intervene on behalf of the Arabs to stop it? (against our erstwhile friends) Has anyone actually read the story of the creation of the Israeli state?

Please folks, read a few history books before talking about America's responsibility for the World's & Middle East's problems, eh? The truth is darn inconvenient, I know. But ignoring it just won't do.

Sorry for the out-of-topic reply, but I can't let such things pass without a response. :unsure:I'm prolly in trouble now....