My Take On “Book Review: The Navy’s War | How Britain Won the War”
It is important that we have unity amongst members of the western hemisphere during times when we have taken to confronting, liberating, civilizing and moderating some parts of the world.
As far as 1812 is concerned one feels that the time between 1776 and 1812 could be considered America’s free-est.
This goes to show that we should have aided France during the revolution as France had aided us in our struggle for our freedoms. If we had stuck together we would never have had to see the day when General Napoleon Bonaparte would be forced to become Emperor (the pressures of being the first republic in Europe needed relief from us). We would never have seen the day when the US would have suffered a burnt white house and library of congress (let’s not forget that because what was lost there was far more precious).
Even today a blockade of the US continues but the people of the US do not see it and few can even perceive it. If you cannot perceive this blockade how can you ever hope to remove it? For starters our people need to start getting 3 month paid vacations as in Europe (England etc.). We need free/universal health care and free universal higher education for all (like in England, Canada and Europe). We need to permit our people to own and operate ships wherever there is a body of water (every one of our kids should be like Laura Dekker the Dutch teen advice).