(J Waller) wrote in message . com...
"Well, throughout the latter half of the 40s, and the decades
afteruntil the wall crumbled, we maintained a substantial force
shielding the UK from the perils of its own (necessary)
parsimony. I kind of always contemplated that along with their
hostage role, USForces Europe, were substantial Peacekeepers of
a peace that the Europeans couldn't (or wouldn't) manage to keep
for themselves. Onlt the US presence during those years allowed
the UK to dispatch the occasional battalion to some restive
backwater conflict."

Oh dear you really don't know what you are talking about do you...
Lets see know, the UK maintained until the 1970's several hundred
thousand personnel outside of the UK to look after western interests.
while you guys were messing up in vietnam, we quietly fought a war
against indonesian communism and won. We fought in hell holes all over
the world preserving not only our national interest but also that of
the west in general. We almost crippled our national economy in the
1950's paying for defence expenditure, so don;t tell me we were
parsimonious. The USA felt it in its national interest to keep troops
in Europe, last I heard you guys were an independent nation, so if it
was oh so dreadful for you, why didnt you pull out? Could it be that
your leaders felt that it was in your national interest not to do so?
No one forced you to stay, you stayed of your own free will and
nothing more.

I am sick and tired of this saving the world bull**** I hear from
poorly educated Americans. You did your bit and your economy did very
nicely from it, we did our fair share of keeping the free world free.

We're tired of saving the world too, since we have to keep reminding
Europe that is was -Europe-, not America, that started saving the
world. So as always we are perfectly willing to sell Britian
both Canada and France at a reasonable Viscount Discount price.
Since we don't won't hear anything more about
either the sinking British Navy, the crumbling French Air Force,
the moron German intelligensia, the Chinese Great Wall Of Nothing,
the Russian pyscho zoo, or the pasley-blue UN Global Economy
as being some sort of unstoppable superpower dynamo.



End of story.