I worked in it for 20 years and it isn’t about policing any more. It’s all business strategy, customers and all that pc tosh.

Watch out America it’s coming here – I know I now work in LE here and I see its pervasiveness creeping in.

Unfair accusations of disloyalty will encourage isolation and mistrust

How unfair is it really? The abject dearth of forthright repudiation of islamofascism and jihadism is an extremely alarming social poison.

Isolationism and mistrust would seem to be rational responses to such a malevolent presence.

Muslims and Islam are not to be trusted in any capacity.

BL@KBIRD on March 9, 2008 at 3:34 PM

One of the more transparently ridiculous statements I’ve heard. For one thing, you just maligned all Muslims currently fighting in the US Army.

They’ll pull out of Afghanistan real soon. I don’t even think they are seeing any action there now. Most of the British forces are in peaceful parts of the country. They allow radicals to get away with all kinds of mayhem on their own soil. You’ll probably see the Irish gain their independence soon too through succession.

THE CHOSEN ONE on March 9, 2008 at 4:58 PM

Here’s another. The Brits have had to face some of the toughest fighting in Afghanistan. Read some Michael Yon, at least.

England allows lawsuits by Saudi oil ticks, seeking to restrict freedom of speech and press in other countries.

“Airmen have been told not to leave an RAF base in uniform to avoid being verbally abused by civilians.”

Yep, this is most assuredly a country of stalwart citizens whom I can count on to be allies.

Not.

Grayson on March 9, 2008 at 11:08 PM

I hear ya. It just saddens me to see people who value the sacrifice of her own sons so much that they forget about the sacrifice of other sons. I know, I’m getting all sanctimonious. That is the fate of old farts.

Limerick on March 9, 2008 at 10:24 PM

I agree with you, but I think that your point is true of all countries. America doesn’t always appreciate other place’s contributions, but the we’re not the only ones.

By the winter of 44 we had were tapped. The new divisions were nothing more, or better, then the cannon fodder that Stalin had thrown against Germany in 42 and 43.

Yes we play a vital, and probably pivotal role in the conflict. But to dismiss Britian, Canada, Russia, China, and MANY others the war would have been lost (in Europe).
We have been raised on ‘Gung Ho’ and ‘Sands of Iwo Jima’, but few can tell you anything about El Alemein, or Dieppe,
or the Battle of Britian, Arnhem, Caen, or the war in the Atlantic. How about those sailors on Prince of Wales and Exeter? The Lancaster crews. The spunky British submarine service working three theaters of war? And WHEN was the last time you thanked a Aussie for HMAS Perth? Never, cause we have blinders on. We would do far better to remember the HMS Hood then the moles in the British system.

America loves it’s heroes, but all too often forgets about the other nations who served right along side us. When was the last time you thanked the Philipines or Norway? Like I said, we helped, a great deal. Sure we were the arsenal of the world, but the blood on the ground wasn’t just ours.

dmann on March 9, 2008 at 9:03 PM

Too true.

Maverick on 60 Minutes.

We are all brothers, my mother fled Lithuania (from the Russians)during the war and ended up in Germany, whilst my father flew bombing missions in a B24 over the continent. Only through combined efforts (yet again) can we prevail over another fascist threat to our mutual freedoms.

madvision on March 9, 2008 at 8:46 PM

Excellent suggestion. Mr Morrissey could begin by condemning Winston Churchill who authorised the transport of millions of ethnic Germans by train to Germany from Czechoslovakia in 1945.

dmann on March 9, 2008 at 8:29 PM

I agree.

Not only did I not, nor would I ever, belittle or forget the US’s contribution I specifically wrote:

Of course the British, Russians and Chinese needed American help and couldn’t have done it without the US. Nobody would ever say otherwise.

I actually love America and the other week I saw for the first time Objective Burma which is one of the best, most gut-wrenching war films ever made. I was dizzy afterwards.

The reason I may seem to come across as non-plussed at the US is because I spend so much time refuting anti-European comments on this blog. I just won’t accept that Europeans are worthless cowards who deserve whatever they have coming to them. Especially since, as I wrote in a comment to Pax Americana two weeks ago, my deeply conservative Catholic country (Ireland) is being undone by ideas developed on US campuses.

A lot of these comments have a kind of detached air as if the destruction of Europe is something an American can watch with a box of popcorn whereas as I’ve pointed out upthread jihadist infiltration is just as bad in the US as in any other Western country.

clean up the ethnic cleansing “question”

grtflmark on March 9, 2008 at 8:14 PM

It really drags this blog in the mire.

The US’s official enemy is extremism which is why the false dichotomy between liberalism and Nazism, Euro-weenies and neo-fascists exists. There’s no in-between, you’re either a coward or a fascist. Its a Catch-22.

Edited by Ed to remove reference to another’s removed comment.

Your point is well taken and it is the obvious conclusion one can draw after the fact. European and for that matter most of the civilized world did indeed teeter on the brink of oblivion in 1941 after the fall of France. Had the United States chose to withdraw material help and adopt an isolationist foreign policy,(as many in this country advocated) most historians agree that the Nazis would have defeated the Brits. I am not saying that the ultimate defeat of the Axis powers was the result of only an American effort; of course it took the combined will and sacrifice of all freedom seeking countries. But, do not belittle or forget that without the efforts of the United States early in the European conflict when America was not directly involved, the world would be a vastly different place!

He’s irish dude. real irish. He’s way off on his political views, but he’s had a few taters in his time.

Hoosier’s is the best sports movie of all time.

NahnCee on March 9, 2008 at 6:56 PM”

NahnCee… I am not a Brit. I doubt that you are actually Irish. The British are America’s best ally in the world today. They have been for some time and will be the foreseeable future. Its ironic that someone who supports an administration which has been behind the largest military aid and transfer of technology package Pakistan has ever received is criticizing the British for not killing enough Pakistanis.

Nahanni on March 9, 2008 at 8:09 PM

Ask Mr. Islam at the Pentagon. He ought to know, he’s practically running the place.