Paladin77

Reply to Why America is hated in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

They lack objectivity as with most people. For example when I visited Ireland, friends wanted to know why I lived in such a violent country. Being from New York I just looked at them and smiled. It is the price you pay for living there, I told them. It would have been rude of me to point out that the IRA had been killing people for over 100 years. Or that London was the first city I had ever been to that had metal detectors built into the door way of almost every store, and CCTV cameras watched

Reply to Vietnam and the war in Iraq. in History JoeUser Forums

Paladin wrote: "What makes you think that we stand a chance of stopping Iran from getting them?" Mr. Greene replied: Covert ops based on good intel, not intel that's molded to fit the policy by civillian leadership. Great so what you are saying is we go to war! Sending in the military to any country on a covert mission is an act of war. Most p

Reply to Why America is hated in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

If there were a true war on Islam, and any Islamic countries, the entire globe would be embroilled into a conflict very similar to WW2, nobody can make that claim that we are in the same type of thing today. Similar, yes, but all wars are similar, people die, resources are wasted, conflict occurs, suffering, refugees. Islam will come out of this war surviving and perhaps e

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Mr. Greene wrote: No we should follow a law, seperation of powers, checks and balances. When the executive branch has no law governing the treatment of certain individuals, then the legislative branch comes up with one, if not, then you can clearly see what happens when human psychology at the soldier level comes into play when there are no rules in the treatment of peopl

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Actually, you sound exactly like the kind of American who spent time in Europe without ever really trying to find out what the local culture was all about (convinced as you were in advance of your inherent American 'superiority'). What a sad waste of a potential learning experience. Close except for the preconcieved ideas about Europe. Most of m

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Chakgogka wrote: Now, maybe America is 'hated' in some parts of the world, but I can assure you that most Europeans do not hate America. They mostly just feel superior to America in a fairly condescending way - no more and no less than an exact mirror image of most American right-wingers view of Europeans. If you live with them long enough you wi

Reply to Hate speech in Current Events JoeUser Forums

You don't think hate speech has been around since the invent of language? That we just made it up around the turn of the century? How arrogant. That is not what I wrote Mr. Greene! I wish you would read what I write as opposed to seeing what I did not write.

Reply to Hate America for fun and profit in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

It's fun to be melodramatic, but it's even more fun to be coherent and original. True, but have they asked the US for help?

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I hate the fact that you are correct. Oh no! Does this mean I am bad because I hate?

Reply to Hate speech in Current Events JoeUser Forums

It started in Europe after WW2, when the expression of Nazi ideology was outlawed. It spread to Canada, where it became illegal to even offend people with religious expression. It's spread here now from the usual touchy-feely suspects. I thought it started in Soviet Russia in 1920. The term was being politically correct. yes, the Soviet Union was

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Exactly! There were racial slurs thrown both ways that night, but apparently only the white guy was in the wrong. I am highly offended by your suggestion that the colored guys did anything wrong! they were offended by the white guys hate speech. they were provoked! you should be arrested for your obvious racist views! Ok back to reality

Hate speech in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Hate speech! When did it become illegal to speak ones mind? I thought that was part of freedom of speech! Too bad Americans don't believe in freedom of speech. Once convicted in the press a person is guilty until the press forgives the person. That same speech was used during the O.J. Simpson trial and the detective was forgiven for some stupid reason. O.J. was acquitted but has not been forgiven by the press. It appears that freedom of speech is not free unless you belong to a politic

Hate America for fun and profit in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

Let’s hate America! Think about it folks, we are disliked or hated around the world according to the press and vocal malcontents within our own borders as well as all people around the world. We will always be hated until we fall the way of all the other super powers in history. Until then lets hate America because everyone else does. Just forget that America has become the 911 call for every nation currently in power around the world. Name a nation that has

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That is neither just, fair, right, ethical, or American. You should be ashamed of yourself if you are defending the treatment of detainees to this point. Because of attitudes like that, the Islamic world is ready and willing to kill us because of the treatment of detainees. If I understand you correctly you are saying that we should ignore inter

Reply to Why America is hated in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

That is neither just, fair, right, ethical, or American. You should be ashamed of yourself if you are defending the treatment of detainees to this point. Because of attitudes like that, the Islamic world is ready and willing to kill us because of the treatment of detainees. If I understand you correctly you are saying that we should ignore inter

Reply to Why America is hated in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

That's just one part of it's role, it's other role is to handle foregin matters, and portray a good image of our nation. i.e. Evil versus Good, Warm versus Cold. According to the constitution the president is the sole person in Government to deal with foregin affairs. Our image is not our responsibility, though we do care when we can. We

Reply to Vietnam and the war in Iraq. in History JoeUser Forums

If Iran's goal is world domination they had better think twice. Neither the United States, nor the chinese, or Isreal, will allow Iran to possess a nuclear weapon. It just isn't likely to happen. Really? You think that is the case? I disagee with you. Look at the crap we had to go through to stop Iraq from gaining nuclear equipment. Look at how

Reply to Vietnam and the war in Iraq. in History JoeUser Forums

Both of those wars you've mentioned were defensive, Germany declared war on us, Japan obviously made the first move, and so did North Korea when they attacked South Korea, in Iraq we were re-invaders and agressors more so then in any other conflict in history save Afghanistan. This is part of the pre-emptive strike Bush doctrine, though the premise is solid, the intel has

Reply to Vietnam and the war in Iraq. in History JoeUser Forums

That may be true as it would seem they have a common enemy in the United States, however Iran's leadership seems much more interested in, hell bent even in the destruction of Israel, at least the president guy, as for the Aye O Tollas, I'm not convinced they either care about UBL or are as relevant as they were during the Gulf war period. I am s

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I wanted to make sure I got your whole statement quoted correctly. In Germany during WW2 it was a total war, the German people were beaten both economically, but psychologically, they had nothing left, obviously you've seen the pictures of post war cities in Germany, nothing left but burned out hulks, then they were forced to bury the Jews of the concentration camps and ba

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Mr. Greene wrote: Now as for Iraq, the insurgent movement is largely divisive between the political groups in the country not Al Qaeda, foreign fighters from the neighboring region also have irregular freedom fighters, and covert ops working there subverting the new government as you would expect them to. Again not Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda's modus operandum is to lay low inside

Reply to Vietnam and the war in Iraq. in History JoeUser Forums

The enemy if you are talking about is Al Qaeida (I can never spell it right), they didn't have political control of Afghanistan, The Taliban did, When we went terrorist hunting they were given the option of handing them over or being taken out of power. Since then the real threat in Afghanistan is lack of economic developement, because of infastructure, and an insurrection

Reply to Vietnam and the war in Iraq. in History JoeUser Forums

Paladin, with all due respect I hope your punctuation is better in your books. LOL yeah, it is. But I write these things on the fly. I limit myself to only five minutes per post.

Reply to Why America is hated in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

Have we, our government, been arrogant and self centered in pursuing things at times, yes of course. Does that mean we don't look out for others, and care for other countries? No, we are also a caring nation. Silent, The purpose of the government is to protect its citizens not be nice to strangers. By law the government has to be self-ce

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Mr. Greene wrote: As for what our country has done, well Invade Iraq and occupy it on bad intel, with no escape plan regardless of good or bad intel, bad for Iraq, bad for us, bad for stability in the region. So the fact that it was not bad intelligence has nothing to do with your argument proves you don't care about the facts just the spin. Non