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By reading some of the posters here in other threads, you would think that the biggest, and truest, stereotype foreigners have of Americans is that they are all prudish.
By reading some of the posters here in other threads, you would think that the biggest, and truest, stereotype foreigners have of Americans is that they are all prudish.
Oh so they have been wandering around Iraq and Afghanistan with flowers and candy. Wake up and smell the coffee. I spent 10 months in Laos in 1964 do you friggen think I wandered around with an umbrella and a bowler hat opening doors for old ladies. Shheeesh.
Foreign bases are only part of the scene. Yes we pay rent but foreign military personnel on anyone's soil is a problem. How about we rent a base to Canada in Illinois which is almost bankrupt? The Canadians have the money. How'd you like that. A bit of a stretch maybe but from what you're saying a necessary a stretch.
I was referring to American troops garrisoned in Europe, not troops in imminent danger areas.
We're no better. Hell, we actually resorted to something as juvenile as Prohibition, and in doing so, basically constructed organized crime.
Moreover, we still haven't learned our lesson. Now it's drug prohibition that's burying the country. But i guess building a million new prisons makes more sense than taxing a bottle of booze to death.
And don't even get me started on Dry Counties.
Which is why I have little good in the way to say about the so called 'War On Drugs'.
Well, the language is pretty much the same, but some years ago I took my first trip to the Bahamas and stayed in Nassau. It was in the early 00's, 2002 or 2003. We got up one morning and decided to walk around the streets and see what was out there. We turned down one street, and in front of a building were these uniformed military-looking men with huge scary-looking weapons. They were black, and I figured these were some type of Bahamanian police, and thinking "Man, they look like they don't play around down here." We got off that street quickly.
A couple of days later I asked the doorman at the hotel what that building was with the armed soldiers in front of it, and he said, "That's the American Embassy."
By this admission, I can only assume you've never seen a marine in uniform and you don't recognize the Stars and Stripes.
By this admission, I can only assume you've never seen a marine in uniform and you don't recognize the Stars and Stripes.
Hahaha, I didn't see a flag, obviously, or I would have known it was an American installation, obviously, but I didn't walk all the way to the building--saw the guys with guns up the street and kept my distance.
If I recall correctly, they had camouflage-type clothing on. I wouldn't have known if they they were Marines or somebody else, no.
The guys with the guns in the train stations wear similar uniforms but they are National Guardsmen, aren't they?
They seem to like Obama and wonder why we elected Bush twice lol I heard this from someone who travels quite a bit.
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