Originally Posted by
Milo Minderbinder
There won't be a Scots airforce because they won't be anyone to fly in it. Scots are congenital mercenaries who only fight successfully in other peoples armies. If they created their own they'd be so absorbed with internal bickering that nothing would get done. They only fight successfully if they're fighting a cause other than their own, led by someone other than their own.
Not sure how you manage a present tense in your second and your final sentences there, MM. The last time your comments might have been valid was during the Thirty Years' War from 1618 to 1648. As the war memorial that stands in just about every Scottish village will confirm, in more recent times Scots have fought, and died, in large numbers, for causes they felt they shared with others from elsewhere in the UK, and sometimes led by men who happened to be Scots. 14% of UK deaths in World War One were Scottish (with Scotland accounting for around 10% of UK population at the time). Rather more recently, it was reported that 25% of the British infantry serving in Iraq and Afganistan in Autumn 2007 were Scottish.
Your failure to appreciate this has resulted in a post that insults the memory of every Scot who has laid down his or her life in the course of duty over the past couple of centuries and which, in both tone and content, is little short of racist.