rvg, some couple of years later?

[Kadagar_AV]

How come you skipped past the last part?

[rvg]

How come you skipped past the last part?

Didn't wanna scare you any further.

[Kadagar_AV]

Didn't wanna scare you any further.

Oh, peoples opinions never scare me.

People with guns scare me :)

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Didn't wanna scare you any further.

Well, personally, I'm already weighing up the danger you pose to the western world at large, given that you're basically riffing off every sociopathic dictator from the last two millennia.

"Let them hate us so long as they fear us" is as foolish as "kill everyone who doesn't agree.", and it has also been shown not to work, and every generation has tried to be a bit scarier and a bit more brutal, and the retaliation has just been that bit more harsh.

[rvg]

"Let them hate us so long as they fear us" is as foolish as "kill everyone who doesn't agree."

That's a matter of opinion, and ours differ greatly.

[Strike For The South]

That's a matter of opinion, and ours differ greatly.

yup, his is based in reality

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Of course I do. And my point is that Britain *could* have choked the rebellion.

No it couldn't. It could have stopped the War if it had managed to decisively defeat Washington in the field and then offered the Colonists terms - primarily enhanced tax-raising powers for the provincial assemblies so they could pay the British Army directly.

Later, much worse things than what you Americans have done were done to Africans in an attempt to keep other Colonies, and they failed also.

That's a matter of opinion, and ours differ greatly.

Do you know why Napoleon lost?

When he entered a country it was his policy that his soldiers should take what they wanted, rape who they wanted, and destroy anything not able to be made French. Consequently, he was opposed everywhere he fought.

When Wellington invaded France it was his policy that everything should be paid for and that any soldier caught looting should be hanged immediately. That's the equivalent of rogue Marines in Afghanistan coming back to the base, boasting about the ragheads they killed, then being lined up and shot.

Wellington also had forgers in his army who forges francs with a higher silver content than Napoleon's so that his soldiers could pay for everything they needed with legal tended, and pay more than the French.

This is not a matter of opinion, it is a matter of historical record.

[rvg]

No it couldn't. It could have stopped the War if it had managed to decisively defeat Washington in the field and then offered the Colonists terms - primarily enhanced tax-raising powers for the provincial assemblies so they could pay the British Army directly.

Later, much worse things than what you Americans have done were done to Africans in an attempt to keep other Colonies, and they failed also.

Let's just say that I'm happy that Lincoln did not adopt this kind of stance during the Civil War. Speaking of which, if you wanna talk about the guy who spat on laws, regulations, articles of the Constitution, Lincoln is the man. And yet he's a hero. He had the will to do whatever needed to be done in order to save this union.

Do you know why Napoleon lost?

Yes, he lost because he got cocky and decided to invade Russia. Bad idea. Repeated many times before Napoleon and after, but always just as bad.