I will take your critique will all the tremendous value and historical backing it contains.

If the US were divided by even 2 major states like New York or California seceding, there would not be military bases littering the world like cigarette butts, 1 million dead Iraqis, 10 million refugees in the mid-East, a seven-fold worldwide increase in terrorism in just 15 years, and the chance that any given moment in any given day the world will be plunged into nuclear war. China and Russia long tried to conform to your view. They killed 100 million of their own citizens in the last century without needing a single war to do it.

In reply to Re^9: Patience is a Monk Virtue by Your Mother
in thread Patience is a Monk Virtue by marinersk

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