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[markd]

This thread is beyond belief. I'm with artist on this one, I mean who applys to join the RM to debate politics anyway???

I want to do what I'm told when I'm told, thats the whole idea of a UK rapid reaction force!! Wouldn't be that rapid if everyone stood around thinking about the why's and wherefore's!

[letsrole]

I'm bored of reading this tread over and over every time I come on, someone pleaaaaase lock it!!!!!

[Doc]

Lock it????

Its too much fun

[Konassin]

Nationalism is the last refuge of a coward, and thats all i have to say.

So, after all, the ‘Communism’ of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated

George Orwell -

The point i was making, is that if the british military is used to fight imperial wars, then they are being used in the traditional mercenary role.

Your knowledge of both history, and the definition of words, needs serious work...

[lukebland89]

i think unnamedfeeling you are very disrespectful talking in such a bad way to someone who has fought for our country and feel you should apologise for your comments. Blandy

[Ruth]

Nationalism is the last refuge of a coward, and thats all i have to say.

Actually, it's "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" and it was said by someone else - Samuel Johnson.

And once again, selective quotation can give a slightly different slant to the original context:

"Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self- interest."
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson