I hope this is the right place to post this. First, I'd like to explain that I am a skeptic and I like to challenge my ideas. I'm always open to changing my mind on something if a good argument can be made. That being said, I'm really not fond of the hero worship that the US military receives,...

There are often calls for one portion of a state to secede and form their own state. For example, the recent Scottish referendum on seceding from the UK. But suppose it went the other way around, and England, Wales, and N. Ireland decided they didn't want to be unified with Scotland any more. But...