Fitz:
Heh, yea… Thanks for the mention, but, Gilliam, why must you neglect the developing, and very religious, nations of Southern and Central America? And those in Africa? Or the Phillipines? And come to think of it, I mentioned two ares with a very large Catholic majority, and another with a sizeable amount, of course, Protestants, bar America, attend Church services less often (For example, Germany, Britain, the Northern countries) then there are those who have been destroyed by Communism - More people in the Czech Republic believe in UFOs than in God. Albeit, Poland and their neighbours, Slovakia, are still somewhat religious (A bit below that of, Ireland, for example - which is why we love the Poles, there are between 80,000 and 100,000 of them here now). Then you have France, in the late 1700s, abandoned religion when it came to politics, and you can see their sorry state now, this, in conjunction with bordering largely Protestant nations, has had a knock on affect to Belgium.
Why do you count Ireland as insignificant when he stated “
all Christian countries”?
rwoehmke: Yes, the form of government which encompasses a parliamentary system and a monarchy, in a democratic fashion, is a Constitutional Monarchy: Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark,
The United Kingdom not England - England is a Constituent Country, not a sovereign nation, there are three Constituent Countries in the United Kingdom, Scotland, Wales and England. Scotland has its own parliament, Wales has its own Assembly (As does N.Ireland, though at the moment it is not in use, due to Unionist stalling tactics, and also it is not a Constituent Country), while England has nothing. It does, however, contain the parliament for the entirety of the United Kingdom, which represents all Constituent Countries, semi-autonomous provinces (N.Ireland) and over-seas territories - It doesn’t represent England solely, and is not an English parliament. Don’t call the United Kingdom “England”, it is a common mistake (Though I’ve heard English people adamantly say that it’s mostly Americans make it)
America helped to remove a despotic government from that country. With the aid of several other nations. Unlike Iraq, everyone agreed with this invasion. But you quickly exited, for what? Iraq. And now you’re stuck in Iraq, with, at present, American politicians repeatidly using one common phrase “Exit Strategy”, which it looks like you’ve been there longer than American politicians expected, and wanted, and will be there, most likely, for some time. I believe, it is your responsibility, to make sure things run smoothly, democratically and fairly in that country - You can
not run into a country, remove its government, and resolve all their problems, miraculously, by staging quick elections, then run off and ignore that country, and their problems. What if some despotic Communist dictator gained control? Would you ignore him? What if it were the Taliban, again? It is your responsibility.
All the nations with troops in Afghanistan, all nations who helped to free them from the tyrannical Taliban and all Christian nations accross the world should put pressure on Afghanistan to stop this. You freed them, they owe everyone involved a favour (Though you cannot specifically say America, as America would’ve just ignored Afghanistan were it not for the eleventh of September, 2001, which is why I shall refer to it collectively)
