this is bs, the british forces managed to rule the world, the americans cant even rule one country.
the americans can learn a thing or two from the british forces, treat the local with respect and win hearts and minds. These animals are just the tip of the iceberg, have you all forgotton abu ghraib??
Dude, did you pay attention to history AT ALL in school?
1. We conquered the entirety of India, destroyed the Mughal empire which was doing a perfectly good job of ruling the place, then treated the natives like slaves. When we finally left, we left it so screwed up they are still fighting today (india vs pakistan, pakistan vs bangladesh).
2. Um... the whole Israel/Palestine thing is kind of our fault. We used to rule it, and property screwed up giving it back to the people we stole it from.
3. The reason Iran is where it is today is because we got upset when the democratically elected leader nationalised the oil assets, taking them off what used to be Anglo Iranian oil and is now called BP. We persuaded the US to support a coup and install the Shah. He was a total tosser, so they kicked him out and put the current band of nutters in.
4. Who invented concentration camps? Nazis? Nope. It was the British. We used them for keeping the Boers in during the Boer wars in South Africa.
5. The only reason we didn't lose the lot to Napolean in 1810 is because the only people more obnoxious than the British Empire at the time were the French, so the other nations decided we were the lesser of two evils.
6. Churchill is one of my personal heroes, and had a lot of amazing traits like tenacity, wit etc. .... but he was also an appalling racist who believed that non-whites were incapable of ruling themselves and need to be subjugated. Very much a man of his time (and class).
7. Erm... Ireland? We spend most of our time in the early 20th century shooting Irish citizens for daring to want their own country. That's why they formed the IRA and started bombing us.
8. We were so determined to sell opium to the Chinese that we regularly used to interfere with their local politics to get a leader in place who'd let us keep selling them dope. They eventually had to go to war to stop us. They failed, and only really kicked us out when Mao Zedong got into power.
And those are just the ones off the top of my head.
The British Empire was very impressive for its time, but like all empires, it was bought with the blood of the colonies.
Also: that video of the dog is pretty funny. I think if I was in that situation, I'd be tempted. The thing would only have starved to death anyway, so it's kind of euthanasia. It didn't suffer. The sheep thing was pathetic though.