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>>>>>>>I really don't get what your argument is now. If China (and 26 other countries) came to Canada and toppled your government because it was thought to be planning to nuke China (ok maybe not likely) and took over and Mexicans flocked to Canada (or Americans) as civilians (not the military) and started bombing the roads, beheading civilians, shooting at the Chinese, and killing everything and everyone in sight to push the Chinese out of Canada, should the captured Mexicans and Americans be taken back to China for trial in a civilian court? Or should they be held until the end of hostilities?
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>>>>>>I have no idea where that comes from. I simply made the statement that the Americans were the foreigners in Iraq and Afghanistan,not the Iraqis and the Afghans, and you felt that was an unfair statement. You pointed me to a site that says that detainees were born in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other places. I don't understand how that information in itself proves anything at all about who the foreigners are.
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>>>>>>What this has to do with Mexicans killing Chinese in Canada, I'm entirely unsure. Or are you saying that if the Chinese invade Canada they are not foreigners while Canadians born outside Canada are?
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>>>>>I'm just sitting here across Lake Erie thinking about the joys of war-profiteering ...
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>>>>>(if the Chinese do invade, will Quebec surrender before they get to Manitoba ... ? )
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>>>>You can have Quebec and Ontario and I'll take Alberta and British Columbia :o)
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>>>I always had a fondness for Irkutsk and Kamchatka ;-)
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>>That really was a good game <g>
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>Yup. My pals and I played many games of Risk circa age 12 or 13. A popular strategy was for a player who was badly behind in the game to "stronghold" -- move all their troops to one country. This did not improve their chances of winning but made them very hard to oust. Closely related was the "rainbow" strategy -- picking up the board by both sides and letting all the different colored pieces fall into the middle.

The Rainbow strategy sounds a lot like when I play chess or scrabble.