Scientists believe there are nearly two hundred countries on earth. You would think four or five would be enough for a planet this size, but obviously we lost control at some point and the number of countries ballooned to an unmanageable size. This is why nation building is so irresponsible; we’re already overpopulated with nations. This is why I propose America adopts a policy of nation destroying. Anytime some nation gives us trouble, we destroy it to the point it can no longer properly be called a country. Some may think that’s harsh, but we’ll simply be thinning the herd to the benefit of all nations… that remain. We keep up this policy until we’re down to whatever we set to be the maximum limit of the number of countries in the world — maybe twenty. What do you think?
Geez, couldn’t you have come up with this idea when I was stuck in Social Studies memorizing all of these insignificant places??
List of countries we need to destroy:
Iran
Iraq
N. Korea
France
Instead of destroying, we can just consolidate some of the places – anything that doesn’t start with The United States and end with America.
Let’s add Syria, Venezuela, and Cuba to that list.
Makes me think of Randy Newman’s “Political Science” song (Let’s Drop the Big One Now) which I don’t think I take as he intended. (He was being liberal snarky, I thought it was a good idea.)
“We’ll save Australia. Don’t wanna hurt no kangaroo. We’ll build an All-American amusement park there. They got surfin’ too.”
Well, the US policy has been contraproductive to that goal during the last 2 decades or so.
Going to war against the Serbs who would have kept Yugoslavia together, going to war against Saddam when he acted to remove Kuwait from the map…
Hmmm. I think maybe the maximum needs to be three. (Need a couple of places to go on vacation, yaknow). Anyway, since certain liberal bastions (like San Francisco, or Chapel Hill, NC) don’t seem to recognize the law and deem themselves above it, doesn’t that rank them as a seperate country? Let’s put them on the list too.
There should be two countries: The United States of all the Good Stuff and Imbecile Federation of Methane Producers. Guess where libs would live?
I say take down every country that has oil and other assorted goodies that we can use here in the US…then we go get the stuff that’s really ours for the taking in the first place! Oil, Gold, Diamonds, Nuts, Bannannas, cool animals to fill our zoos up…
And just think!
We wouldn’t have to build huge facilities for the Olympics any more!
I guess I’m more of a “compassionate conservative” since I think we should demand Tribute (cash, oil, diamonds, etc…) from lesser countries instead of destroying them. At least until they get behind in the payments – then we send out Vinny and Guido and a couple B-2 bombers to teach them to be more fiscally responsible.
Why don’t we just disarm the rest of the world and make them our slaves? I mean, how proactively “human” is that? This democracy stuff is a bunch of crap.
Sounds good. We could make Europe one single Country with Scotland as the Capital. The United States of Scotland has a nice ring. I’d opt for England were the lesser pussies. I figure the Scots are sufficiently mercurial and will keep that nation number down. We can Let Australia rule all those damned Island nations and make the Unites States of Australia. The rest is ours.
I dunno, I’m kinda with Frank on this one. I like the idea of thinning the global herd (and yes, the domestic one too) and starting fresh.
Hey, we can’t dump ALL the work onto Fred! now, can we?
Yeah, Australia can stay since that’s one place I’d still like to visit. Plus their accents are neat.
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
i figure we’ve got 3 major countries on our continent right now and any more just seem superfluous. so let’s make that our limit. 3 countries per continent making a total of 21. since austraila is fine like it is and no one wants sntarctica, europe, asia and africa can have extra, but the total caps at 21.
oh. and as of yesterday, i’m running for president of the usa…
I say we start here at home & work our way out. We have the cancerous Nation of Islam, La Raza, the Klan & their ilk, etc, all of whom think that they are nations unto themselves. Start eliminating them with extreme measures & the rest of the planet will really start to fall in line. I mean, if we just go to town on our enemies within, that will put the fear of God into the lesser nations of the world.
Then we wall off the southern border, bulldoze Mexico & Cuba, economically bitch-slap Canada & turn Venezuela into a glowing glass plain. After that we tell France, Iran & N. Korea that we thought that was a nice warm up for the main event.
I get it now! This whole thing is just a big conspiracy by the map makers! They want to keep the world in conflict so they can sell more maps!
Brain, I’m not sure. Most of the human race isn’t smart enough for “democracy.” And we’re on the edge of not being smart enough, either. Democracy is only self-preserving when it operates within a strict “Republic” by people who understand the meaning of the words “inalianable” and “truth.”
So, my question is this: What’s the point of democracy when if it allows the seeds of it’s own destruction?
Well, after much research (the first Google hit got it for me) I found a whole, huge list of countries! Most of them obviously don’t speak English, since I couldn’t pronounce them, so they can go. Some of them made me giggle when I tried to pronounce them; they should probably go, too. The rest sounded like some dictator on a three week bender named ’em. We don’t need those, either. That winnowed my list down to English speaking countries that have understandable names: Scotland (manly, they toss around tree trunks for fun), Ireland (gets a pass because of their expertise in brewing), England (only on the strength of their contributions to rock music), Australia (didn’t want to make them mad), New Zealand (’cause nobody knows where the heck it is, anyway) and Canada (we need someplace to exile all of our poo-flinging liberals). Other than those, I say we should pave the rest over and put Super Wal-Marts and McDonalds’ on them, or use them as live-fire ranges for our most awesome military.
I hate it when a perfectly good straight line goes to waste.
Pinky, you were supposed to say, “I think so, Brain, but how will the weasel get around the mullberry bush if it doesn’t go pop? Narf.”
And then, we all would have laughed. Now? Not so much.
You see, there is this cartoon called Pinky and The Brain about two lab rats out to take over the world and… oh forget it.
But remember this is IMAO, if you come here to seriously debate the issues… you might be a muckadoo
I think Petoria should be bigger.
Hey, Veeshir! Cool it, babe. The Brain and I were just discussin’ things here before we make our move on the world.
Yeah Brain. But if we didn’t have ears, wee’d look like weasels. Narf
It seems Bush has the same idea. He’s been working on one world government for at least 7 years now.
I was thinking that one would be a good number of countries…but then again…one is the loneliest number and two is just as bad as one…being the loneliest number since the number one.
SO I say three. Then we still have two other places to bully around a little when we want to feel all superior and stuff. We have to have someplace to test our nukes, don’t we?
While Bush worked on his “One World Government”, Ron Paul worked on drilling a cave big enough to move all Americans into to avoid any conflict whatsoever with evil people in the real world.
To the first Pinky, you weren’t talking to The Brain, you were talking to my sock-puppet.
To the second Pinky, thank you. Now I can go to sleep happy tonight.
I’m with you!
I just edited an HTML page with a select that listed a bunch of countries. I say cut it down to less than 50, so the pulldown is on the same order of hassle as one with the 50 states.