If Canada invaded Minnesota, as long as it lasted anyway, I could consider myself finally freed from the tyranny. Not even to mention universal health insurance as a birthright!I live in Minnesota. Hell, the border should rightfully have gone up the Saint Louis River in the first place, leaving Duluth, the Iron Range, and the Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness Area in Canada where they belong.

Have a nice day.

Antti

Well, occupation of Shebba farms is certainly a provocation, but let’s not forget that this current generation of Southern Lebanese Muslims (aka Hezbollah) grew up under Israeli occupation (1982-2000), terrorised and looted by the IDF and their SLA helpers. That’s 18 years of terrorising and plundering. There is a documented incident when topsoil was removed off Lebanese farmland and shipped to Israel; the UN had to intervene to stop it.

Yeah, and the next generation is going to grow up with millions of Israeli-American bomblets laying around their gardens and fields, ready to go off – so some time in the next decade we are bound to find out if that helped improve their attitude.

To say nothing of Adam Yoshida. But let’s not forget the slop our former colonial overlords have been sending us in recent years: Sebastian Mallaby. And Hitch. And Little Roy. And Tony Blankley.

They can take them all back, along with our crappy health care system.

Why would there be fighting over it? The Lebanese were farming the land, and paying property taxes on it to the Lebanese government. What about that situation do you think should have led to the Lebanese taking up violent action?

Contrast to the Israeli position of, “There is a technical dispute over whether this land belongs to Syria, or Lebanon, so quite obviously it is desired by a higher power that this land be settled by Israelis of the proper ethnic background for their exclusive use in perpetuity”.

I can see the second situation leading to some fighting. The first, not so much.

Tell that to the Friesians!

IOKIYAR?

1. The federal government ordered Gen. Pershing to take 10000 troops into northern Mexico. Wikipedia entry.

2. The Texas Rangers and informal militia groups used it as an excuse to murder innocent Spanish-speaking American citizens and/or steal their land and property. Here and here and here.

Actually, I’d really have to know more about this invasion before I could decide whether to resist or collaborate. If we did get free health care, an generous national film board and more West Indian and East Indian cultural influences, I might have to sell out my Minnesotan compatriots. Of course, if Canada really were invading, that would seem to indicate that a general and severe rightward shift had taken place in Canadian politics. It’s a toughy. Oh, ridiculous commentators of the far right, why can’t you make your bizarre analogies stand up to more rigorous scrutiny?

Any proper-thinking nutter – IE, Jonah Goldberg – would hold the view that were Canada ever to invade we’d kick their maple-chomping behinds back to Nova Scotia, same as we’re gonna kick the stuffing out of those Lebanese for not taking our colonialism and liking it, because USA! USA! USA!

Once you start getting funny ideas to your head about moral and logical consistency well, I can’t imagine it’s long until someone presses a straight-razor into the guy’s hands and tells him to do the right thing.

I don’t know why we need all these analogies when we have the Minutemen diligently working to protect our southern borders. (Unfortunately, they haven’t been deployed in the North yet so they won’t be able to prevent an invasion of Minnesota by rabid Canucks.)

Belgium does not exist.

Belgium really does not exist