I don't think it's fair to compare the Bushies to the Royal Family. After all, Prince Phillip (The Queen's husband, to her left) and Prince Andrew (Her son, to her right) have actually seen combat
5. How many countries around the world have standing monarchies?
...Ten? Fifty? Over a hundred? Just curious, as I believe one could probably assemble an impressive array of photographs like those above. Then look at the problems of poverty and wealth concentration and I believe again one would find a pretty close correlation between those social issues and the power and wealth concentrated in those monarchies. Strange how e find ourselves in the 21st century economically but still politically much of the world is practicing 19th century monarchism.
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