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    Mass panic and fear mongering work great as diversions from real problems.
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    Airmail taught me the other day that the UK doesn't maintain carriers as a means of force projection, but because they look cool and help get aid to Africa.
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    Originally posted by GoToAway:
    Airmail taught me the other day that the UK doesn't maintain carriers as a means of force projection, but because they look cool and help get aid to Africa.
    And because we like taking it up the arse from the US.

    Something something something common foreign policy and special relationship something something something

    The carriers were also purchased by Labour as a way to create jobs and please the Unions. We don't need them for defending the Falkands, a nuclear submarine will do the same job just fine.
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    This thread needs a good old singalong.

    All together now...
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    Quickly followed by our new anthem...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...10Lg&feature=related
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    Originally posted by Aimail101:

    The carriers were also purchased by Labour as a way to create jobs and please the Unions. We don't need them for defending the Falkands, a nuclear submarine will do the same job just fine.
    Correct. We don't need two big fleet carriers. We are in the post-colonial era, we have no overseas commitments apart from protecting the independence of Belize for which the er, Harrier was ideally suited. Oh yeah and some really far-flung lumps of rock in the middle of oceans like Diego Garcia which are in fact US airbases.
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    The Japanese by law limited their army and navy and look what a economic powerhouse they have become.

    That is where the real power is.
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    Originally posted by stalkervision:
    The Japanese by law limited their army and navy and look what a economic powerhouse they have become.

    That is where the real power is.
    What with their deflation and everything..
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    Originally posted by Dance:
    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by stalkervision:
    The Japanese by law limited their army and navy and look what a economic powerhouse they have become.

    That is where the real power is.
    What with their deflation and everything.. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

    well it once was.
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