John Young wrote: [...]
> The short-lived patriotism after WTC/Pentagon has been > transformed into uncritical jingoism in the US and surprisingly > in the copycat UK. Why "surprisingly"? Every UK administration since 1945 has been America's poodle in foreign affairs and military matters. [...] > These targets are not celebrated, they are taken for > granted as if to last forever, well, as long as King George > lasted on the American continent <ahem> George III's rule on the American continent lasted longer than George Washington's did. The present Queen is *still* the head of state of more of the American continent than the president of the USA is (http://www.communication.gc.ca/facts/geography_e.html) Ken Brown (I may be British but I'm not a bloody monarchist - though I don't mind the royals as much in places like Canada & Australia as I do here http://www.cix.co.uk/~kbrown/rotm/1999nov.htm)
