UK settles WWII debts to allies

Daz_Hockey

Daz_Hockey

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ITN, I havent got a problem, you must realise this is all in jest right?....I dont seriously think Britain was in anyway screwed over by the US or that colonial troops were in any way infearior to anyone else. My name isnt Blackleaf, I'm just gageing a reaction and making conversation however heated.

I only brought it up because I've just been watching this rather funny and somewhat interesting program called "in debt to the yanks" narrated by the 2001 - 2006 British Ambassidor to the US.....I wouldnt let him back in, in future really!!!.

Hope no-one is offended...I'm just finding a way to stay awake thru this assignment and I like good wind-up.
 
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tamarin

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Well. I'm glad the debt is paid. You never know when a new one will have to be negotiated. We live in troubled times. As a boomer I was never asked to make the sacrifices my father's generation made. But that doesn't make sacrifice or its necessity obsolete. I think there'll come a day in the next twenty years when young Canadians and Brits and Yanks will be asked to do what their great granddads did in WWII. Something far more sinister than an Iraq or Afghanistan.
 
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Zzarchov

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See, Britain had to borrow money of "its" empire because it didn't own the empire as slaves anymore than the empire owned Britain. All the empire waged war, Britain was just incompentant in financial matters and was dragging the rest of the empire down.

The British empire did more fighting than Britain, and while many Brave tommies fought alongside the Empires forces, the incompentant British leadership meant it constantly had to be bailed out by India, Australia, Canada and the rest.

See, we can ALL have patriotically blinded accounts of history which still have solid basis in fact.
 
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