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As for whether Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland will end up leaving the UK... Whether Quebec will leave Canada.. We'll see. I don't have a crystal ball, but I do see a problem with historical legs, traction and means. It'll be interesting to see how it goes.
As for commenting on "State of war"/Dar al-harb and a Churchill fascination; When a person is putting up a fairly staunch justification of (petty) nationalism at least, then I should think a little sojourn into the iconography that surrounds it is pertinent. The particular quote is a recipe, an excuse and a call-to-arms for perpetual imperialistic war... pertinent. "State of war". Pertinent. Combination while commenting on petty nationalism? Intriguing.
I put forward a view of nationalism and jingoism as the minority reaction to a state that is on the road to break-up, as a different point of view to that of 'vile racism' sullying the pure and legitimate waters of petty nationalism and xenophobia. In UK political terms, that's BNP versus UKIP.
Myself, I'd class the real difference between the two in semantics and sophistication of language. Nothing more.
Spade versus Shovel.
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"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place." - Winston Churchill, 1937 --{ORLY?}--
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