tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060041.post117252410276571259..comments2024-03-23T19:30:55.540-04:00Comments on INNER TOOB: O'BSERVATIONS: "THE STATE WITHIN"Toby O'Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06999037844031101965noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060041.post-1172589115524592662007-02-27T10:11:00.000-05:002007-02-27T10:11:00.000-05:00JAs Douglas Adams put it, "The difference between ...JAs Douglas Adams put it, "The difference between Europe and the US is that in the US 100 years is a long time and in Europe 100 miles is a long way". <BR/><BR/>20 years is <EM>nothing</EM>. There are still people in Britain gassing on about the Second World War and generally under the impression that Germans are war-like, etc, even though the Germans lost and we've started a hell of a lot more wars since. And let's not get started on the French. We're still narked about 1066.<BR/><BR/>The US launches a coup against the democratically elected British government of the late 80s? We'd be harbouring a grudge still. Oh yes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060041.post-1172585014169125102007-02-27T09:03:00.000-05:002007-02-27T09:03:00.000-05:00I think it did end with a coup against Harry Perki...I think it did end with a coup against Harry Perkins and his Socialists, but only to bring things back to the way they were.<BR/><BR/>And the blame being heaped on the British because of the bombing could have been payback because of long-simmering tensions stemming from that chapter in history.<BR/><BR/>20 years after Nagasaki and America was swamped with their transistor radios, so I'm not sure the time span matters that much....Toby O'Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06999037844031101965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060041.post-1172561974267500912007-02-27T02:39:00.000-05:002007-02-27T02:39:00.000-05:00My memory's a bit cloudy, but didn't A Very Britis...My memory's a bit cloudy, but didn't A Very British Coup end with a coup? Black helicopter hovering into view as the US/British military decide enough is enough and the PM needs replacing? I'm pretty sure the UK/US interactions would have been very different in The State Within in such a situation, even 20 years on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com