I forgot to quote Keir Hardie's rebutatl to the old imperialist slogan that "the sun never sets on the British Empire." "Yes," said Hardie, "and the blood never dries on it either." jks  andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen@yahoo.com> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">   topp8564@mail.usyd.edu.au wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> I think I just heard a UK general say that the British are "uniquely placed" to win the battle for the hearts and minds becase "we British have an innate sense of what it's like for other people" to go through nasty regimes. * * * Sure, they'e responsible for so many of them. Ask the Irish, the Indians, the Pakistanis, the Palestinians, the Jamaicans, the Sudanese, the Zibabweans, the Kenyans, the Ugandans, the Egyptians, hell, ask the Iraqis -- and there are still Israeli Jews who remember the Mandate years, jks</BLOCKQUOTE> <HR SIZE=1> Do you Yahoo!? <A href="http://rd.yahoo.com/platinum/evt=8162/*http://platinum.yahoo.com/splash.html">Yahoo! Platinum</A> - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, <A href="http://rd.yahoo.com/platinum/evt=8162/*http://platinum.yahoo.com/splash.html">live on your desktop</A>!</BLOCKQUOTE> <hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!? <a href="http://rd.yahoo.com/platinum/evt=8162/*http://platinum.yahoo.com/splash.html">Yahoo! Platinum</a> - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, <a href="http://rd.yahoo.com/platinum/evt=8162/*http://platinum.yahoo.com/splash.html">live on your desktop</a>!