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2003-07-18 -Short Attention Span Theater-

U.S. bests Germany, France for world geography title

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Posted by Rafael 2003-07-18 12:23:23 AM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 NA NA NA NA BOO BOO ;-) WE are out for world domination!

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-7-18 12:51:52 AM|| 2003-7-18 12:51:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 And it sure as hell helps to know where you are, too!

Posted by PD 2003-7-18 2:30:07 AM|| 2003-7-18 2:30:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 "War is God's way of teaching Americans
geography." - Ambrose Pierce

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-7-18 9:20:51 AM|| 2003-7-18 9:20:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Zhang, that quote is not far from the truth...

Posted by Ptah 2003-7-18 9:53:06 AM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-7-18 9:53:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Zhang and Ptah, it reminds me of a Doonesbury cartoon of last year: one character is complaining that only 15% of all Americans could even find Iraq on a map. Another character replies, tartly, that "those 15% are all Marines."

Americans generally can't find anything on a map. Until we have to.

Posted by Steve White 2003-7-18 11:32:49 AM|| 2003-7-18 11:32:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Good for the kids.

Hey, no sweat, that's what maps are for: to find utterly irrelevant and inconsequntial strife-torn former colonies of the former hegemonic Old European Powers who perpetually gaze, wistfully and with heavy sighs, into History's rear-view mirror - and mistake it for reality. interesting places.

Posted by PD 2003-7-18 12:00:02 PM|| 2003-7-18 12:00:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 "War is God's way of teaching Americans
geography." - Ambrose Pierce

Oops - misspelled name. My bad. Actually, his name is Ambrose Bierce.

Other countries learn geography because they have to - the concept of local government (accountable to local residents) is foreign to them - everything is decided at the national level. Here, the mayor of a township has more impact on local living conditions that the President of the United States. This is why we don't bother with geography, and they do.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-7-18 12:40:07 PM|| 2003-7-18 12:40:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Steve: Trudeau is definitely a f*cking idiot: 15% of all americans being Marines works out to roughly 36 Million plus!

And we have a problem in Iraq with rotations???

Posted by Ptah 2003-7-18 2:33:39 PM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-7-18 2:33:39 PM|| Front Page Top

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