Fletcher,
“Arab terrorism in all the years since, including the series of attacks on Israel, was the result of it”

Oh, yeah. It’s got nothing to do with the fact that hatred of Jews is inherent to Islam.

“fighting against the forces of totalitarianism (in the form of Napoleon this time) the USA was on the other side.”

As in British impressment of U.S. merchant seamen? The War of 1812? And, of course, the British actions had nothing to do with expansion of the British empire, did it? It was purely to combat totalitarianism. There was no desire in England to bring the former American colonies back into the fold. Just curious, what do the Irish think about the British struggle against totalitarianism during the 1800′s and 1900′s?

“Or that the “land of the brave and the home of the free” took fifty years after its formation for a large part of its population to share that freedom, even in theory. And a hell of a lot longer for them to share that freedom in fact.”

I wonder what the Zulus would think about the freedom that the British Empire allowed them?