Edward Snowden: heel or hero?

[Mysturji]

Well, if you're going to be PICKY...

On the other hand, invading Upper Canada because Britain pissed you off... let's just say it would make as much sense if Iran invaded Puerto Rico.

Not when Upper Canada is part of the UK. You do what you are able to do. What were going to do? Invade England?

I see your point.
No sense in travelling so far to get repelled when you can do it so much closer to home.

Hey that's no insult. At the time, the UK was the most powerful nation on the planet, followed by France, and then distant thirds and fourths like Spain, Portugal, Holland, Russia and other colonial powers. The US was a brand new country, barely 35 years old, and fresh from having become the first, and I think only, country to have gained independence by forcing the UK to surrender in a war.

At the time, the US was experiencing growing pains, and it was a saying by some at the time that the US had won the revolution, but still had to fight a war for independence. Our navy was not as good as GB's -- we were a smaller country, then, confined mostly to the eastern seaboard. We had no real standing army, and no real experience fighting wars other than the revolutionary war in 1770s and 80s, and a skirmish in Libya.

The fact that we defeated the GB in the American revolution, followed by a stalemate in the War of 1812, is itself a monumental testament to the Americans at the time. Nobody else in the world stood up to the Brits. The Brits beat everyone else, except us.

If that's a defeat, then I'll be happy with it.

It wasn't meant to be an insult. You (as a country) learned your lesson. No hard feelings.

[Coito ergo sum]

Well, we turned GB into an aircraft carrier that we have docked off of continental Europe. That's quite a lesson we learned.... :-)

[Cormac]

Well, if you're going to be PICKY...

On the other hand, invading Upper Canada because Britain pissed you off... let's just say it would make as much sense if Iran invaded Puerto Rico.

Not when Upper Canada is part of the UK. You do what you are able to do. What were going to do? Invade England?

I see your point.
No sense in travelling so far to get repelled when you can do it so much closer to home.

Hey that's no insult. At the time, the UK was the most powerful nation on the planet, followed by France, and then distant thirds and fourths like Spain, Portugal, Holland, Russia and other colonial powers. The US was a brand new country, barely 35 years old, and fresh from having become the first, and I think only, country to have gained independence by forcing the UK to surrender in a war.

At the time, the US was experiencing growing pains, and it was a saying by some at the time that the US had won the revolution, but still had to fight a war for independence. Our navy was not as good as GB's -- we were a smaller country, then, confined mostly to the eastern seaboard. We had no real standing army, and no real experience fighting wars other than the revolutionary war in 1770s and 80s, and a skirmish in Libya.

The fact that we defeated the GB in the American revolution, followed by a stalemate in the War of 1812, is itself a monumental testament to the Americans at the time. Nobody else in the world stood up to the Brits. The Brits beat everyone else, except us.

If that's a defeat, then I'll be happy with it.

We fought them an awful lot closer to home, and they withdrew from the field and negotiated their exit (from most of our country).

We're all friends now though! (Nearly).