So Much For the "Christ Among Nations" - Poland to Join Mili

[redstar2000]

Back in the 18th and 19th centuries, Polish people liked to talk about their country as the "Christ Among Nations"...because it had been occupied and plundered by neighboring countries so many times---"crucified" as it were.

It's now widely reported in the international media that Poland has been invited by the U.S. and the British to occupy up to a third of a prostrate Iraq with generous opportunities for enrichment presumably in the offing.

As always, the U.S. will remain in overall command of events there and the British and Poles will serve as an international fig-leaf for U.S. imperialism.

But how ironic! The last country that one would expect to engage in this sort of shit, even by proxy, positively leaps into the role.

What fun for the Poles to be on the shooting end rather than the shot end of things.

In my view, the moratorium on "Polish jokes" is now lifted. :angry:

:cool:

[Anonymous]

Wow, those pollocks finally did something right. I hope we can count on their support in the future.

[Solzhenitsyn]

Of course the Poles did a little empire building of their own.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

What's up with the Polish jokes anyway?

[革命者]

yeah, redstar-- what polish jokes?? tell us!!

[redstar2000]

The last one I saw, back in the early 1980s, was quite visual.

Walking back to work in downtown San Francisco one day, I saw this absolutely beat-to-hell pick-up truck on Sansome Street. Literally, a moving wreck!

Neatly stenciled on the side door:

City of Warsaw
Office of the Mayor

Bastards!

:cool:

[Invader Zim]

That joke is remarkably unfunny.

Perhaps Poland has becaome "A servile lacky of US imperialism". But at least they are not systamatiacally murdering an entire people like Saddam was. And which YOU personally have condoned by your continued opposition to regime change.

RS2000 you take the appeasement policy of Chamberlin, we all know what happened because of that.

If we add up the country-by-country medians (of total death tolls) we get:
LEVEL 1: 47.35M
USSR: 20.0M
China: 10.45M
Poland: 5.8M
Germany: 5.5M
India: 2.15M
Japan: 1.9M
Yugoslavia: 1.55M
LEVEL 2: ca. 3.8M
LEVEL 3: ca. 0.25M
TOTAL: 51.4M
The country-by-country medians for military personnel killed in the war are:
USSR: 10.0M
Germany: 3.5M
China: 2.05M
Japan: 1.5M
USA: 0.4M
Romania: 0.3M
Yugoslavia: 0.3M
UK: 0.28M
Italy: 0.23M
France: 0.21M
Hungary: 0.14M
Poland: 0.125M
TOTAL: 19.0M


Good old appeasement...

But what ever you say RS2000.

[Ghost Writer]

This is old news Redstar. The Polish were one of the only countries to commit forces with the U.S. during the invasion, the British being the others. What exactly is your point? I think this would have been a more interesting conversation if you would have mentioned how the German's are possibly going to lose one of the U.S. military bases on their soil, as it might be awarded to our friends, the Pollocks.

(Edited by Ghost Writer at 8:16 pm on May 8, 2003)

[redstar2000]

I honestly wasn't aware of the plans to put a U.S. military base in Poland, Ghost. But it makes sense, from the imperialist point of view. It certainly looks like the days of U.S. bases in Germany are numbered, and the eastern European countries are knocking each other down for the opportunity to kiss American ass.

Meanwhile, there's this...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/europe/3008323.stm

The Poles evidently plan to drag in the Danes and the Germans themselves on this adventure...talk about a gathering of the vultures. Most interesting is that the U.S. are going to pay the Poles for their dirty deeds.

It suggests a whole new approach to empire. After the U.S. conquers a new province, it hires occupation troops from other countries both to take the flack on the ground and to serve as an "international" fig-leaf for what is really taking place.

Got to hand it to you bastards, that's clever.

:cool:

[Ghost Writer]

Standing in line to kiss America's ass? Not necessarily. One of our biggest supporters in the War on Terror, the Czech Republic, is largely divided on the prospect of having a foriegn military base on their soil.

Source: The Prague Post (http://www.praguepost.com/P03/2003/Art/0508/news3.php)

Whether or not we will actually relocated German and Saudi Military Bases to Eastern European countries is still a matter of speculation. However, it is certain that our Cold War methods of troops dispersal around the globe is about to change. Rumsfeld has been asked to come up with a ten year plan. Some have suggested "skeleton bases" with minimal personell, but maximum firepower. These bases can be accessed in the event of a flash up in one of the world's hot spots. Another idea is to shift to a system of deployment that makes better use of our dominance of the seas. Indeed, our military is about to conduct some sweeping changes for the better. Hopefully, its overall efficiency and effectiveness increases as a result. The general consensus remains, travel light and hit hard.

Source: Scripps Howard News Service (http://www.insidevc.com/vcs/showdown_with_iraq/article/0,1375,VCS_9220_1943705,00.html)