Waiting4oblivion Parliament, lets try again, shall we? Options

[Burnt Sierra]

Right, a few rules before we start this time. No flaming. No intolerance of anybody else's viewpoint. No deciding you don't like the topic, and trying to tell people what they can discuss. This goes for everybody from now on.

Right, now we got the unpleasant bit out of the way, lets begin anew shall we?

p.s. yes Channler, those were the original rules, but seeing as how everyone seemed to forget them last time, I thought I'd make a little pointed reminder.

[gamer10]

So, the US is perfect, and the rest of the world is terrible, and we'll never need their help? We can exist detached from the rest of -----------?

Well, I hate to say this but for hundreds of years the Europeans have not only existed attached to the other nations. They have suppressed them, kept them down.

I'm sure if the U.S. decided to get involved with everyone we'd end up streaming other nations food supplies to help our soldiers while the farmers and the rightful owners of that food die of starvation.

"Thousands of emaciated destitutes still roam the streets in the ceaseless quest for food, scouring dustbins and devouring rotten remains of castaway food and fruit. Rickety children clutching imploringly the tattered garments barely covering the bones of their mothers are seen in all quarters of the city." (Quoted in Manchester Guardian Weekly, U.K., October 15, 1943.)

"Whilst we learn on the one hand of the fear of alienating certain favoured sections of the property owning class, we learn that there was no such fear during the period of alienating those sections of the population with little or no property. Side by side with the blackest of black markets, dealing in the very life-blood of the poverty-stricken masses, there were "long queues of hungry workers waiting all night outside Government controlled grain shops in places like Bombay." (Manchester Guardian Weekly, U.K., January 15, 1943.)

So I have brought the topic to Famine and Imperialism.

This post has been edited by gamer10: Aug 10 2005, 05:43 PM