Pffff, this article is so amazingly full of errors, lies and spin, it makes my head hurt. America is still occupying Germany? Wow. They didn't know democary before? Guess what, they ELECTED Hitler. Then again, you did manage to make me laugh out loud with this gem: <TD class="mb-Body-Quote-Text
There's one problem with your theory though Brad; it has been proven to be incorrect. There have been many superpowers in history. Not one of them followed all, or even a majority, of your rules. Actually, most were pretty much the opposite on most points. Now before you say it; yeah, indeed, all these superpowers have vanished, collapsed, disintegrated. Guess what, the same will happen to the flavour of the moment, the US of A. <
What I will say is that you yourself admit that you decide things based on "feelings and beliefs" when reasoning is the cognitive ability upon which decisions should be made. Are your beliefs also founded on your feelings? I suspect I'm taking
Sorry, I dont consider the musical group War to be great philosophers. Your mileage may very. The quote you use indicates that they didn't think much about what they were saying, thinking being quite an essential task for a philosopher or group of philosophers as it were. The musical group War, that one
YOU UNAMERICAN PEOPLE ARE SO UNGRATFUL. WAIT UNTIL A CRUEL UNITED EUROPE RISES. YOU WILL THEN FIND OUT WHAT ITS LIKE TO LIVE IN THE REAL WORLD WHICH HAS BEEN 90 PERCENT OF HISTORY. Hahaha, just wait Marvin, you will be first on my personal list once I head the Evil European Empire. But for now, please
Hello again Ves! Let me go back to what we (that's you and me baby) started with: That being said, every war has these incidents, it doesn't really matter who's fighting the wars either. We aren't as civilized as we'd like to make ourselves think, which is of course proven best by the fact we go to war in t
How civilized do we make ourselves think "we" are? Who is "we"? When you speak for "we" do you include yourself? For the record, I'll exclude myself from your "we". How does war illustrated that our concept of the amount "we" are civilized is inaccurate? Dear Ves, Let me accommoda
People say that we shouldn't judge the U.N. by the crimes of individuals within it. I think the same should be done for American troops. Yeah but the trick is, you and other major critics of the UN DO hold the whole UN accountable for the alledged actions of individuals. Th
Ultimately, the people of the United States wanted Saddam removed. A large plurality of Americans wanted him removed in 1998. Americans wanted him removed. The United States is a democracy and hence Saddam was removed. Thank you for making it clear once and for all why America is so unpopular in most p
I think it's always good when someone does what he believes in, period. Is he a rolemodel for me? I think sacrifice is overrated. I think less people ought to sacrifice themselves for their "greater cause" and more people ought to just stop killing eachother. I'd pick Ghandi over a soldier as a rolemodel any day of the week.
This cartoon was published in the Rutger University Entertainment newspaper. They have defended it saying that it was supposed to be funny. What if this cartoon was “knock a nigger into chains for buck!” Or “Rape a chink woman from Nanking for a buck!” This whole discussion brings this opening post nic
I am sure Anne Coulther said so, so that means it must be true.
To do a bit of Devil's advocating: How absolute is our support for strictly following the wishes of the people in a democratic country? One thing that often disappoints me on this forum is the very black & white view people seem to have of things, and the willingness to trade in black for white when it suits them. I see America going to war, the gravest action of them all, to remove a dictator and install a democracy (for arguments sa
Spain was terrorized and then pulled out of Iraq. Giving them exactly what they wanted. Pick on the smaller countries. Less likely to defend themselves. Break up the alliance as much as possible. In my book, that's a bad way to look at it. The next thing Spain will see is the insurgents invading their country. More terrorism in t
Amazing thread this. Author: I have witnessed *spectacularly unimportant thing compared to other things* and hate presidential candidate K for it. Respons A: Here is proof that *spectacularly unimportant thing compared to other things* doesn't actually exist. Author: My own ideas are more true than proof. Respons B: Here's presidential candidate K looking like the Tower of Pisa, which basically proves that even if he looks dodgy an
There's a couple of possible reason, I will just mention two: 1) He is a CIA spy, planted there by Bush to stir up things and only to be "defeated" a week before the elections, a day before we get Osama from his safehouse by the way. 2) He did not get as much mediatraining as Bush, has not done many press conferences and is a bit nervous about the possibility the world might blow up around him at any given time. Don't get me wrong
Well, it's right in between the chapters "Sarcasm in the Holy Land - A journey of discovery" and "The Second Coming of Babylon and other examples of Irony". It takes a bit of looking but as it said in the bible, and again I quote: "Search and thou shalt find". Don't hesitate to ask if you have trouble finding this one as well.
Since USA claims links with christianity ("in god we trust"), I would like to know how the emphasis on Freedom works with the following scriptures: That would probably be because in some other chapter it says, and I quote: "Thou shalt be free to not give a damn about thy neighbor". The most pr
Can all people who see buildings blowing up without being hit by airplanes please raise their hands so the good Captain can make an appointment for a group session?
The problem with Europe is that nobody is willing to take action anymore. Nobody said anything when Hitler was building up arms and very little was done by the Spanish after their bombings. The fact is, is that it doesn't work. The US is all about action and responsibility. In the US, you take responsibility for your actions, whe
Regarding Nukes, a Nuke is not the type of weapon a Terrorist would want to use. Whats the point? The point of terrorism is to make sure the opponent spends so much on defence that the economy colapses. Make the people so afraid they get rid of the leader etc. <br
Are you suggesting that we should have basically laid Iraq waste, killing a few million Iraqi's in the process? Because had we done that, I am quite sure that things would be more "peaceful" now. You kill off enough of the miltiary aged male population of any country and it'll get pretty peaceful for an occupation. </TA
I think it's all part of the liberal conspiracy! Seriously though, I think it all boils down to ratings. Where especially the printing press is hunting for exclusives and shocking news, tv is scared to be the odd one out. There is a general belief that the American people don't want to see this kind of horror. So stations will not risk their advertising dollars before seeing someone else doing it and getting away with it. Sad thing is, the
It's the strangest thing. Just the other day I saw a discussion right at this very forum about the minimum wage, and I'd swear I saw some people say there that raising the minimum wage would cost millions and millions of jobs. SO obviously, this means millions and millions of people work minimum wage jobs, at MacDonalds and similar places as the example went. I even thought I saw some genuine appreciation for these people working hard for so little mon
It's quite simple really. The first choice that needs to be made is: "Do I want this fetus to grow into a person". Pro-choice means giving women the right to make that decision. The other questions you ask deal with: "If I chose that this fetus will become a baby, do I have the right to do things that will harm its' future well-being?" A very different matter altogether. I think one of the basics of our society is that we are all free do do as we p
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