Liberia… Your thoughts?

@EmuGod:

@F_alk:

The point is: Liberia is a country founded by you. It is what comes closest to an ex-colony.
Just as you accuse that the French go in when their ex-colonies have trouble, we want you to go in when your ex-colony has trouble.
You have responsibility for them (sure we could discuss the degree, but not the fact).

And the official abbreviation for Australia is: AUS, the inofficial (used by native AUSsies) is Oz.

F_alk, does that mean you believe that Japan should be responsible for putting North Korea in its place? After all, Korea did become Japan’s colony in 1910 until the end of World War 2. Liberia, on the other hand, has not been an American colony for over a century.

right,
and how does the UK deal with Hong Kong (India, much of Africa), or Portugal w/ Macau? And is Holland still responsible for South Africa, and to what degree?
Africans were brought from Africa to America. America returned them to Africa. The Americans and America today bear very little resemblance to America and Americans of yester-year, and my feeling is that their responsibility ends with: a) any contracts/treaties that were signed, and b) that of the rest of the world to keep violence and killing down to a minimum as part of a globel community.

@cystic:

right,
and how does the UK deal with Hong Kong (India, much of Africa), or Portugal w/ Macau? And is Holland still responsible for South Africa, and to what degree?
Africans were brought from Africa to America. America returned them to Africa. The Americans and America today bear very little resemblance to America and Americans of yester-year, and my feeling is that their responsibility ends with: a) any contracts/treaties that were signed, and b) that of the rest of the world to keep violence and killing down to a minimum as part of a globel community.

Also, who would be in charge or straightening out Cuba and the Philippines? The United States or Spain? Both of them owned those as colonies, so which one of them has to get rid of Alo-Qaeda linked terrorists in the Philippines or of Castro?

The Liberia thing can go really well or really bad. How long we stay and what we do depends on the patiance of the American people. And since we live in a fast food world here I have a bad feeling about the whole thing.

If American soliders start dying in Liberia and We are still in it knee-deep in Iraq, watch American support go away real fast!!!

And whos going to straighten out the US? Get rid of all this democracy nonsense? You going to try to make the British, Spanish, French, and Russians work together on it?

:D

What a laugh! Picture it…

…the staid British fixing NYC(Harlem & Grenwich Village)…

the lingually challenged French(remember they have a committee to create new French words to replace Amero-English words creeping into their language) straightening out New Orleans(Mardi Gras)…

The easy going Spanish correcting the California nightmare(San Francisco & Hollywood.) Let’s not overtax them with responsibility for Sacramento. :wink: …

…and didn’t the Russians have a claim on WA, OR & British Columbia?!

@El:

What a laugh! Picture it…

…the staid British fixing NYC(Harlem & Grenwich Village)…

the lingually challenged French(remember they have a committee to create new French words to replace Amero-English words creeping into their language) straightening out New Orleans(Mardi Gras)…

The easy going Spanish correcting the California nightmare(San Francisco & Hollywood.) Let’s not overtax them with responsibility for Sacramento. :wink: …

…and didn’t the Russians have a claim on WA, OR & British Columbia?!

just Alaska kemo . . . .

No, they did have claims down to Oregon, though not for very long. and the last to have claims to oregon and washington before the US were the British, so it wouldnt be the Russians anyway.

@El:

…the lingually challenged French…

Then there must be a lot of french-disguising-as-USie posters here :)

<cough>Yanny</cough>

Any updates of what’s going on in Liberia? I know US troops are there and are facing a massive problem from rioting civilians.

The point is: Liberia is a country founded by you. It is what comes closest to an ex-colony.
Just as you accuse that the French go in when their ex-colonies have trouble, we want you to go in when your ex-colony has trouble.
You have responsibility for them (sure we could discuss the degree, but not the fact).

No, Liberia was a country founded by the American Colonization Society in 1816 by Robert Finley, not by the United States Government. The US government is not responsible for it (except if you mean providing the ACS with some government grants). It’s like saying, I went to start set up a small communist country in the Pacific, but since things didn’t turn out right, the US government has to bail me out. Also, Liberia was set up with good intentions - not exploitation. Were any of the French colonies in Africa like that?