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		conover on June 22, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Eric Schmidt's thoughts about Pakistan The colonies were an ocean away during the age of sail. I imagine things would have turned out quite differently if Britain was on our southern border.

kibwen on June 22, 2012 [–]

You don't even need to imagine!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812

Though I'm not sure whether this supports or refutes your point... because we did start to get along pretty swimmingly once it was all over.

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