Re: No Time Left for You...

White Spirit <wspirit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 13/08/2010 18:19, Bruce Morgen wrote:

That's well-known history
-- it's too bad all that
British navigational and
astronomical prowess was
largely in the service of
their exploitive, often
bloody commerce-driven
imperialism and the brute
force naval domination that
enforced it, but that
doesn't negate their
achievements. Moreover,
it's damned good thing for
western civilization that
the Royal Navy was there to
check the excesses of the
likes of Bonaparte, Hitler,
& Co.

Not to mention that the Royal Navy was instrumental in putting an end to
the slave trade.

I'd say America's Civil
War was more instrumental
-- end the demand and the
supply becomes irrelevant.

Not too fond of the
bullying intimidation they
used against their American
cousins circa 1812-1814 for
the sake of kidnapping U.S.
citizens to crew that navy,
but you take the bad with
the good. :-)

Well, you started that war :)

Well, you provoked it! :-)

To be fair, my ancestors
were impoverished village
dwellers in eastern
Europe at the time, so no
serious grudge here.

.

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