I think 9/11 had closer links to Saudi Arabia, but you wouldn't get the yanks to do anything there.
As regards Iraq ...I don't think ordinary Iraqis started the Middle East conflict...it was surely Saddam Hussain and the Baathists but it was ordinary Iraqis, including many refugees who were killed by an invasion of very questionable necessity.
I think 9/11 had closer links to Saudi Arabia, but you wouldn't get the yanks to do anything there.
Which funnily enough is why I'm quite proud of the the 'thick' 'ignorant', 'bigotted' folk who voted for Brexit (and for that matter Trump). While the Nazis broke bones and marginalised minorities to enforce their ideology (a tactic Isis are also attempting), and got a deserving kicking for it, in more recent times 'the establishment' scrambled brains with a weapon called 'PC' and marginalised the fat and happy majority to enforce another ideology. Then UK, and then The USA, decided they WOULD speak out, emboldened no doubt by being on the right side of the sticks and stones equation.
Yes I did vote remain, with a heavy heart, but I can see the view from the other side very clearly.
So you voted 'remain' albeit with a 'heavy heart' because, presumably, like many of us you didn't wholly embrace everything about the EU, but eight months on you're actually 'proud' of those that voted for Brexit (and Trump!!) even though a significant proportion of them seem to have been motivated to do so by the single issue of immigration. That's bizarre, especially by your standards AF and however uncomfortable you may be with the EU and political correctness they're a zillion miles away from Germany in the thirties. Je ne comprends pas.
Like Cantonese, Mandarin or Hindi, Adi - the future laguages of trade.
Ironic that an anti immigrant vote for Brexit might spark the introduction of the teaching of Hindi / Indic languages in our schools 😊😊
Proud was a badly chosen word. Maybe surprised/impressed (that 'they' got off their fat arses and voted instead of just moaning).
I don't see a problem, however, with 'them' voting based on one issue, that's free will in action. When I look back on my decision, the swing from leave to remain was certainly massively on one issue (the effect on 'business').
No intention ever to compare EU to Nazi Germany in aims or methods believe me
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Thank you Stoke...not something I was saying last June...but thank you for putting the odious charlatan Nuttall back in his place.