The British Model

[Stinky The Clown]

The UK has been mercifully bereft of a history of cowboys and cowboy antics. They have *not* been bereft of terrorist groups. They have, for years, had to keep a sharp eye out for the IRA's operatives.

They know what they're doing, generally. I don't want to refight the crap that raged on and on in Northern Ireland for far too long. But looking at the UK's howfront security, they've been pretty successful. True enough, some bombs were set off and some lives were needlessly and tragically lost. But for the most part, plots were thwarted and miscreants brought to justice.

By patient, thorough, quiet, competent **police** work.

[Jed Dilligan]

1. If you go far enough back

There are cowboy antics galore in British history.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. Fair enough ......

..... I'm looking only a recent history ...... that which followed their chastisement after their era of empire.

[damntexdem]

5. No, no cowboy antics ...

those were cattle chaps.

[endarkenment]

2. I think you've fallen for the James Bond mythology.

In reality it is much better to use the Monty Python filter when observing British society.

[damntexdem]

7. But in using a Monty Python filter to observe James Bond ...

doesn't one end up with Austin Powers?

[endarkenment]

8. Good point.

And I believe that is exactly where we are at. Substitute bin laden for Dr. Evil. But who is Minime?

[mulsh]

3. Sudan, Palestine, India, Afghanistan, Africa

Notice I'm leaving Ireland out of that list.
The list fills the older globes with pink countries. and whereever the British Empire goes you'll eventually find a shit hole and a whole bunch of resistance groups, terroists and current political trouble with roots firmly entrenched in the "British Model".

Sure they're pretty good at fighting terrorism but they're even better at creating the incubators of terrorism.

[PeaceProgProsp]

6. All those years of IRA terrorists coincided with all those years of

Thatcher.

Coincidence?