Noone has debunked me yet...

try using wiki as a reliable source on a term paper.

"My point was that Canada was that Canada's troops were of better quality, not that we would win in a fight. "

Then why do you need to give Canada 10 times its current population and ignore America's nuclear arsenal? If your point is that you have higher quality then neither of those fantasy rules you made up make any sense.

For goodness sakes Fasces349, just admit your military is not comparable to the United States. That doesn't mean that it's not a highly skilled organization which often demonstrates great heroics. It's just apples and oranges here. You don't have aircraft carriers or military space shuttles or stealth bombers or drones or trained-bomb-planting-dolphins or even a single nuclear weapon. I mean, it's just no contest.

@ Invictus

We have "trained-bomb-planting-dolphins"? Since when?

You don't...

Well, according to wikipedia...

*hastily creates a page "Awesome US Military Dolphins"*

lol

Actually, if the US army had a budget 10 times the size of what it is now (to account for the population difference), it could spare some bucks on turning cuddly mammals into Shahids of the Free World.

Then again, a multipurpose beer-opening cat with stealth is fine too.

what? US already has the worlds 3rd largest population...

times it by 10 and you have almost half the world living in America...

Actually, we do have military dolphins

http://usmilitary.about.com/cs/navy/a/navydolphin.htm

There are probably other better articles on it

and they are trained to either harpoon swimmers or inject them with pressurized CO2. Or they find mines and lost torpedos or attach magnetic explosives to the underside of a ship...or so it says

"Mk 6 dolphins"? The navy has a designation for a living animal? Does anyone else find it strange to have a designation for a living animal?

I remember something about dolphins being employed as minesweepers in Vietnam, but I did not know the navy still used them.

Yeah, Fasces, our Mk 6 dolphins will harpoon your swimmers, inject them with CO2, find your mines and lost torpedoes, and plant bombs on your ships!

my guys are screwed lol

I think one single global gourvernement for the earthling wouldn't be ggod since it is better to have a foreign point of view. I am french, but I like reading press articles from others countries to get a different point of view from french media. Plus if the gouvernement of the World start to be autocratic, censorship being the rule, we wouldn't have any source of criticism. We need at least three different countries.

But to come back to the purpose of the thread, the smaller the country is, the nearer people are from the politics, the better they can ply a role in the politic life of the country.

and saying wikipedia is not a reliable source is like saying linux is not a good operating system since everybody can develop it.

"But to come back to the purpose of the thread, the smaller the country is, the nearer people are from the politics, the better they can ply a role in the politic life of the country."
agree, so your with me in that city state good, empire bad?

I think both have drawbacks : if you work in a public sector or as a lawyer in city state, you haven't a lot of choice in place you can live.

I would like to have a replacement to the UN modeled on the original view of the US (a collection of independent states with a weak central government).

"I think both have drawbacks : if you work in a public sector or as a lawyer in city state, you haven't a lot of choice in place you can live."
Were not talking about public vs private, were talking about small countries vs large countries. You can just move, like anyone can move, as long as you find a job in your new city state...

I wasn't trying to belittle the Canadian Armed Forces. Quite the contrary I think it is well known that Canada has one of the best trained armies in the world. I was just trying to debunk Fasces's claims that Canada could win with numbers alone if they had them.

@Fasces349 : For instance if you succeed in a contest to be a public school teacher in China, you can work in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tibet etc...
if you managed to be a public school teacher in Monaco, you can work only in Monaco (not a lot of options you see). So for an engineer that isn't a problem he can switch from different countries as he want, but for lawyers, public teachers etc. they'd better live in a large country if they want to get more choice.

Thats not completely true, if your a grad from Princeton Law School, you could become a lawyer where ever you want, you would probably rather live in the states, but if you really wanted to you could work in Malaysia, Monaco, China, etc. The same would apply in a world of city states.

Yes, but chamois'point is you would have to pass the bar in those countries. So, in a sense, it is true. And law varies so radically from country to country that passing Greece's bar exams (just cause I know hellalt is a lawyer in Greece) would be radically different from passing of the bar exams of one of the states in the US. Unlike medicine or engineering, which are sciences and don't vary, the law is different in every country.

That is a good point...

However the same thing could be said about the states, how cause the laws differ from state to state, why would a lawyer who grads from a university in one state be allowed to work in another.

@Fasces - what university you go to is irrelevent in law. It's where you take the Bar Exams. And while the details in the law vary from state to state, they still conform to certain standards set by Federal statutes and US universities don't teach law specific to the state in which they are located.

That's a problem the centralized countries don't have.

"@Fasces - what university you go to is irrelevent in law. It's where you take the Bar Exams. And while the details in the law vary from state to state, they still conform to certain standards set by Federal statutes and US universities don't teach law specific to the state in which they are located."
I seriously doubt that. As a law firm I would much rather higher someone who graduated form an Ivy League school then from a non-Ivy league school...