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Originally Posted by MoonlitSunshine
@DJ: Is it your new favourite thing to just respond sarcastically to some post or comment that you feel obliged to answer, but have nothing actually interesting to say? Ireland isn't a Member of NATO, as we are a Neutral State. The Irish Army is a Peacekeeping force, which you might know if you knew more about it, which has taken part in many UN Peacekeeping missions in the past, but has never taken part in any offensive actions. This just typifies my point about assumptions, arrogance and ignorance. Congratulations.
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Also to explain the sarcasm, sorry about that. I'm used to dealing with a lot of anti American sentiments from Americans all the time and it just bugs me. There are a lot of great things about America and people take their simple rights for granted all of time. Whenever I'm met with anti-American sentiment my sarcasm usually comes out in full force.
I have no problem being proved wrong. Thank you for the education. I'm always willing to learn more.
I was under the impression that Ireland was part of the United Kingdoms and the UK is definitely a member of NATO.
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Originally Posted by MoonlitSunshine
Besides, if there's one thing I know, it's that one should be proud of local culture and identity. I'd hate to see Europe amalgamated into one big European States, because I'd fear that we'd all lose our separate identities in the process.
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You wouldn't lose your separate identities because as Big3 mentioned above they will still exist. In America, you can pick people out by the region of the states they are from by their slight accents or certain words that they use. Some people are so good that they can actually tell the state someone is from by that.