2012 Nobel Peace Prize

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Um...New Orleans?

1812 was the point when Britain finally fully recognized and respected the United States. In terms of strategic goals, we finally got control of the land east of the Mississippi where British forts and garrisons were still in place, and we stopped having our sailors impressed by the Royal Navy.

[kentonio]

Um..White House?

We were basically busy in Europe and some colonial scuffle wasn't at the top of our radar.

1812 was the point when Britain finally fully recognized and respected the United States

We've never started respecting the United States.

[regexcellent]

Okay, yay, you burned Wahington. It wasn't a very big city. You couldn't take Baltimore, 20 miles away.

Ultimately Zevico's point stands of course.

[Aeson]

Yah... it stands off in some field of straw. The question isn't if you need shared sovereignty in all cases, only if it was helpful in a specific case (EU).

[kentonio]

Okay, yay, you burned Wahington. It wasn't a very big city. You couldn't take Baltimore, 20 miles away.

We got bored, we had more interesting people to fight like the French.

Ultimately Zevico's point stands of course.

Not really. Pointing at a few long standing allies who haven't been to war with each other and using that as a reason to discredit a union of countries who actually have been regularly at war with each other in the last couple of centuries is pretty weak reasoning.

[giblets]

Um...New Orleans?

1812 was the point when Britain finally fully recognized and respected the United States. In terms of strategic goals, we finally got control of the land east of the Mississippi where British forts and garrisons were still in place, and we stopped having our sailors impressed by the Royal Navy.

Impressment ended because of the defeat of Napoleon and the Jay treaty had already taken care of British forts in the Northwest territory.

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We got bored, we had more interesting people to fight like the French.

"We would have fought you but we were tied up kicking cripples"

[kentonio]

"We would have fought you but we were tied up kicking cripples"

You recall that this was an age when the French were probably the most powerful military land force on the planet right?

[regexcellent]

Yes I know but they're still fun to make fun of

[kentonio]

Yes I know but they're still fun to make fun of

Ungrateful yanks, they helped you earn independence and gave you that gaudy statue that pollutes NY harbour.

[DinoDoc]

We paid them back by saving the from the Krauts.

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Twice

[Zevico]

Not really. Pointing at a few long standing allies who haven't been to war with each other and using that as a reason to discredit a union of countries who actually have been regularly at war with each other in the last couple of centuries is pretty weak reasoning.

You say it is but you don't actually explain why.

[Dr Strangelove]

You know they could have given the prize to someone involved in the "Arab Spring" movements.

[kentonio]

You say it is but you don't actually explain why.

Because it's the equivilent of saying that because I've never punched my friends in the face, there is no need to have youth programs for kids from troubled areas because we never needed one.