On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:05:24 -0400, Wes
wrote:

Don Foreman wrote:

what's funny is how conservatives are always going around shooting off
their mouths about how America is so great, so awesome, is the greatest
country in the history of the world. But then when I hear all your
complaints about how lousy things are all I can think is what
hypocrites. After that rant one can only take home the belief that
America really sucks. Is that what you are saying? America isn't any
good any more and the truth is it stinks here for most of us. Because if
that's what you mean I have to agree.


Hawke

America tries to be good. I'm about to leave for a while and watch Black Hawk Down, an
indictment on how fickle our allies are and how worthless some of our elected leaders are.
I was going to watch it yesterday on the 4th of July but I could not locate it. Clint
Eastwoods 'Blood Work' was excellent outside of his firearm handling. America tries to do
the right thing, we are a super power of sorts though we are in decline.


Perhaps focus on what needs to be fixed and how we (as opposed to
"they") should fix it would be more productive than partisan zeolotry
in either direction.

If you don't like being an American, it is quite possible to emigrate
and it's easy to renounce your U.S. citizenship you have by birthright
if you regard it with contempt and disdain.

Only a fool would renounce the gift of being an American. Assuming Hawke is an American,
he knows that.

I also am quite happy to be an American, but I have friends and
relatives who are quite happy living in other countries. Some of them
have lived here so they definitely have a valid basis of comparison.


You might well find the politics in the UK more to your liking, though
you'd need to leave your guns and sharp blades behind. Perhaps a
minor concession.

I suspect the UK has standards set by a conservative administration, he might not be able
to get in now.

Wes

If he has a skill they want, his politics would be no problem at all.
He'd fit right in.