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Forum: USA
Jul 6th 2008, 9:56 pm
Replies: 160
Views: 9,623
Posted By robin1234

Re: US Patriotism.

You know what they say; "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a British Expatriate who has time on his hands must be in want of a UK-related hobby or obsession."
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Forum: USA
Jul 6th 2008, 5:04 pm
Replies: 160
Views: 9,623
Posted By robin1234

Re: US Patriotism.

Exactly. The world was kinda boring before then...
Forum: USA
Jul 6th 2008, 2:46 pm
Replies: 160
Views: 9,623
Posted By robin1234

Re: US Patriotism.

And the event I allude to happened in England not Massachusetts..
Forum: USA
Jul 6th 2008, 2:40 pm
Replies: 160
Views: 9,623
Posted By robin1234

Re: US Patriotism.

We old folk are so predictable aren't we.... usually you & I are the only ones up & about between 8am and 10am on a Saturday and Sunday! I usually have to wait till like 2am the next morning to get...
Forum: USA
Jul 6th 2008, 12:49 pm
Replies: 160
Views: 9,623
Posted By robin1234

Re: US Patriotism.

Not really - I think that the Daily Mail was more interested in directing public opinion than truly reflecting it. Thus, the Fox News of its day....

So, you don't agree that some Britons were...
Forum: USA
Jul 5th 2008, 12:33 pm
Replies: 160
Views: 9,623
Posted By robin1234

Re: US Patriotism.

Yeah -- I guess so, you found me out! :ohmy:
Forum: USA
Jul 5th 2008, 12:30 pm
Replies: 160
Views: 9,623
Posted By robin1234

Re: US Patriotism.

I'm not going to accuse you of making a pathetic statement, but I will argue that it is in error. I don't really see that folks in America in 2008 have more of a responsibility (or means at their...
Forum: USA
Jul 5th 2008, 12:18 pm
Replies: 160
Views: 9,623
Posted By robin1234

Re: US Patriotism.

You say "the public's reaction"..... then, as now, the public did not speak with one voice. There were ignorant jingoists supporting imperial expansion & hatred of foreigners (egged on by the...
Forum: USA
Jul 4th 2008, 10:42 pm
Replies: 160
Views: 9,623
Posted By robin1234

Re: US Patriotism.

Just talked to my daughter - she got to drive the National Seashore Fire Truck in her town's parade! She doesn't work for the National Park Service; but all their firefighters were shipped out...
Forum: USA
Jul 4th 2008, 7:22 pm
Replies: 160
Views: 9,623
Posted By robin1234

Re: US Patriotism.

"People's Organization for Progress"... that sounds like a Communist front. "Pas d'ennemis a gauche" ... the old guy carrying the sign looks like a fellow-traveller from way back. One of the...
Forum: USA
Jul 4th 2008, 7:14 pm
Replies: 160
Views: 9,623
Posted By robin1234

Re: US Patriotism.

Is that any different from the populist jingoism of the UK in the late 19th & early twentieth century? I doubt if the average yahoo on the streets of London knew where Afghanistan or Zululand were.....
Forum: USA
Jul 4th 2008, 4:40 pm
Replies: 160
Views: 9,623
Posted By robin1234

Re: US Patriotism.

Agreed.

The Halliburtons, KBR & Blackwaters of their day...
Forum: USA
Jul 4th 2008, 1:41 pm
Replies: 160
Views: 9,623
Posted By robin1234

Re: US Patriotism.

But why is he not as much an American Patriot as Hancock, Washington, etc.? And I'm not being cynical here, just realistic.. presumably, on both sides, Loyalist and "Patriot," folks had mixed...
Forum: USA
Jul 4th 2008, 12:22 pm
Replies: 160
Views: 9,623
Posted By robin1234

Re: US Patriotism.

One of the problems (especially for a Briton) with the concept of the "Patriot" in the United States goes right back to the founding of the country. A "Patriot" is someone who chose the winning side...
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