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Montegriffo wrote: Sun Nov 11, 2018 8:54 am

Manwithnoname wrote: Sun Nov 11, 2018 8:46 am

C-Mag wrote: Fri Nov 09, 2018 11:14 am Honestly I think we pay it less head because we've had to rescue Europe from tyranny so often it's old hat. There'd be no end to the anniversaries if we celebrated our century long protection of Europe

For sure. Where would we be without you? Everyone needs a mate that picks the pockets of the guy you just knocked out and then throws a victory party.

Never mind that. What's going on with your one-day game? You know it's the world cup next year, don't you?

heydaralon wrote: Sun Nov 11, 2018 9:01 am

Montegriffo wrote: Sun Nov 11, 2018 8:54 am

Manwithnoname wrote: Sun Nov 11, 2018 8:46 am

For sure. Where would we be without you? Everyone needs a mate that picks the pockets of the guy you just knocked out and then throws a victory party.

Never mind that. What's going on with your one-day game? You know it's the world cup next year, don't you?

Looks like we are back on the demerit system. Folks on here just can't help derailing threads with sports talk.

Monty Flagged!

+1 Demerit for Soccer talk on WW1 thread

Manwithnoname wrote: Sun Nov 11, 2018 8:46 am

C-Mag wrote: Fri Nov 09, 2018 11:14 am Honestly I think we pay it less head because we've had to rescue Europe from tyranny so often it's old hat. There'd be no end to the anniversaries if we celebrated our century long protection of Europe

For sure. Where would we be without you? Everyone needs a mate that picks the pockets of the guy you just knocked out and then throws a victory party.

This week some 80 world dignitaries including Presidents Putin, Trump, and Chancellor Merkel are gathering in France to mark the culmination of year-long remembrances of the centenary of the end of “the Great War” on November 11, 1918 – later labeled and known to every American high school history student as World War I. While at least 17 million people, including more than 116,000 Americans, died in this war — and millions more were wounded, gassed, or maimed — it’s a conflict widely misunderstood today. Indeed, because of World War II’s size and scope, cultural influence, and greater media coverage and capture, the First World War is often called “the forgotten war.”

Yet it was a cataclysmic event in its own right that both foreshadowed more intense and violent warfare in the 20th century, and fueled the growth of gargantuan central government in the United States. Most crucially, however, it was a war that should never have been fought — its causal origins and assignment of guilt for same are still a hot topic of debate a century later, a fact that alone attests to its superfluity — and one that, in any case, the United States should never have entered. These are disturbing theses about the war that will not be remembered by any of the global elites in Paris this weekend, but given the lessons for today, Americans should learn about them so as to demand of their Beltway solons wiser policy choices in the future. What follows is a short summary of America’s involvement in the war and lessons for today.

Manwithnoname wrote: Sun Nov 11, 2018 9:29 am

heydaralon wrote: Sun Nov 11, 2018 9:01 am

Montegriffo wrote: Sun Nov 11, 2018 8:54 am

Never mind that. What's going on with your one-day game? You know it's the world cup next year, don't you?

Looks like we are back on the demerit system. Folks on here just can't help derailing threads with sports talk.

Monty Flagged!

+1 Demerit for Soccer talk on WW1 thread

not soccer, cricket. But yes wrong place and wrong time considering the occasion.

C-Mag wrote: Sun Nov 11, 2018 12:39 pm @Fife

People really underestimate how bad a POTUS Wilson was for Liberty and America. That article does a good job of calling him out.

Montegriffo wrote: Sun Nov 11, 2018 11:05 am

Manwithnoname wrote: Sun Nov 11, 2018 9:29 am

heydaralon wrote: Sun Nov 11, 2018 9:01 am

Looks like we are back on the demerit system. Folks on here just can't help derailing threads with sports talk.

Monty Flagged!

+1 Demerit for Soccer talk on WW1 thread

not soccer, cricket. But yes wrong place and wrong time considering the occasion.

Mia culpa.
In my defense, our one Australian poster only turns up a couple of times a year and I didn't want to miss a rare sledging opportunity.