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(...) On the personal level it's not so important. In Australia (metric for thirty years or so) people's height and (less often) weight is still usually described in imperial units. On the organisational level using the wrong units can waste over (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) that both teams didn't use the *same* wrong units. 8^) Dave! (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ok, this is an honest question, although somewhat rhetorical, but I mean no affront: Why, then, did Australia fight in the World Wars and in Vietnam with America? I understand the historical relationship between the UK and Australia, and yes, (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) From distant memories of my School boy History. There was. Japan actually bombed the North of Oz a few times (Darwin?). The Oz Government had a plan only to defend an internal triangle which I think was almost Melbourne - Brisbain - Cairns. I (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) America should not have invaded Vietnam. My question involving Australia's involvement in Vietnam was rhetorical. My point was that America isn't the only nation to have gone to war in modern times for reasons that are not for clear- cut (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Point taken. Of course, Australia has never been in a position to establish world-wide military and economic hegemony. I'm not saying it has been wrong of the US to do so, but while the moral and political questions are similar the global (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) In short, the industrial base of the serpent's head was there. The United States could easily take Japan in a fair fight, but an Axis-controlled Europe was a much more dangerous nut that needed cracking. Once pressure was off Britain, huge (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The only case I can think of that might address this question is the US Civil War. Europe walked an amazing tightrope then, in part to avoid upsetting the balance of Europe internally-- although Britain recognised "belligerent rights" with (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Linday: First, I'd like to say that I appreciate all of the information. I'm quite interested in the role that nations such as Australia and Canada played in the theater of the World Wars, chiefly because I'm afraid to say that I know quite little (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Seriously, I'm not sure what you mean: do you really want to debate the mediocrity of American culture? Since I've never been to Australia (and, obviously, have therefore never spent an appreciable amount of time there), my judgments as to the (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I hope it's all as correct as I think it is! :) (...) You and I both. It's especially shameful for me, because it's my *job* to know the Empire--but the big problem is that the research and writing just haven't been done yet, and that's done (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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