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As an American, I find your comments offensive. If as a result of that I were to go out and beat up someone who happens to be the same nationality as you are, I've clearly committed a crime and should be punished for it, correct? How about you though? Did you do anything wrong by saying that? Should you have been prevented from it because some crazy American might read it, took offense, and beat someone up because of it? Should you be held accountable for my actions there in any way?
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2009-04-07, 19:50 | Link #2163 | ||
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Fucking hypocrites. It's almost like they're laughing at the rest of the world. Quote:
There's no real change. The powerful always act towards maintaining the status quo, because that's what made them powerful in the first place.
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Besides, the US can control the world even better if no one has nukes. No need to worry about MAD, and there's not much chance of anyone the US goes to war with winning a conventional fight.
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2009-04-07, 21:35 | Link #2165 | |
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And well in 1909 US's policy and today's policy haven't really changed much, both have sphere of influence or type of sphere of influence in part of the world. And do try to impose their policy on to other nations. But I am disagree that Obama is going to have the same policy from the past, imo the US' current policy are not going to work and having negative effect on them. So I think to improve US' image in the world and to better his country I think he will bring some change. Also if US lost their nuke then imo it wouldn't really help the US as they would lose one of their bargaining cheap.
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2009-04-07, 22:03 | Link #2166 |
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I would definitely advocate for not getting rid of nukes, nukes are basically a failsafe. If both sides have nukes, they take one another as hostages, they can't fire a nuke, it'll spell doom for them, in this way the balence of power is somewhat maintained. The big reason everyone doens't want other countries to get nukes is that the nukes cause problems. Especially in the hands of a deranged lunatic.
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2009-04-07, 22:19 | Link #2167 | |
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2009-04-07, 22:29 | Link #2168 | |
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2009-04-07, 23:43 | Link #2169 | |
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Estimates (culled from wiki on Bulletin of Atomic Scientists): United States 4,075 / 5,535 Russia (former Soviet Union) 5,200 / 8,800 United Kingdom 160 France <350 China 160-400 India 100-140 Pakistan ~60 North Korea 0-10 Israel 100-200 (based on warhead material)
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2009-04-07, 23:46 | Link #2170 | ||
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What change is it that you seek? If the United States is not suitable to lead the world in a direction of peace and prosperity, while maintaining balance and order, which nation or nations are fit to do the job? Any suggestions?? The term "teamwork" cannot be applied directly to the world because "teamwork" never works well without leadership to begin it, even if it goes down to the line of individuals and groups, not mentioning that it is even more true when it comes to nations. Thus, which nation are you nominating to replace the United States? Last edited by Shadow Kira01; 2009-04-08 at 00:17. Reason: fixed. |
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2009-04-08, 00:13 | Link #2171 | |
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The people of IRAN voted for their current leadership post Shah. You probably blame the U.S and Britain for this. Oh jolly, those yankee doodle doos angered those poor iranians and now they gone and elected those darn islamist woman beater, gay hangers. While america's actions may have laid the path, the iranians had destiny in their hands. They failed. After the Russians left Afghanistan. Who filled the void? Ultra-religious Taliban islamists. I'm sure it was the CIA's fault for paving their path to power. Islam as an ultra conservative political/religious ideology has no bearing on this. America stops propping up the Pakistani establishment..i'm sure those open minded moderates will take over...not. Same with the Saudis. You can blame the western world for the state of the middle east in many ways. But the western world merely loaded the gun. Political islam and its constituents chose to pull the trigger. Obviously they are no "minority" over there. The British have a large role in the destitution seen in Africa. Why did we not see an exponential increase in non-muslim african terrorists? America has had a grip on South America for years as part of its self interest. Many South Amercians are surely angry. Other than drug trafficking, and localized militia why do we not give a shit compared to dealing with Osama's whackjobs? The western world has loaded the gun. Why has the trigger not been pulled? Why do mere Danish cartoons allow people to so easily pull the trigger? Political islam. The true root and source of anger. The true conflict in ideologies is what has set this in motion irrespective of what the western world has or has not done in the past. These countries in the UNHRC are fighting an ideological war. Where our ideologies collide, there is a battleground..be it Iraq, Afghan, Palestine etc. One such battleground is now being waged over the right to criticize one ideology by the other. |
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Get over yourself... because clearly you have zero abilities to read. How the fuck is it my fault that Islam restricts women from going to school and then extremists go blow up innocent school girls in iraq and afghanistan? thats a problem with the inherent religion which imo is outdated.
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2009-04-08, 00:17 | Link #2173 |
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'Down with Communism!'
Nice!! This is what happens when politicians try to get away with a "rigged" poll and hope that its citizens would pretend to be blind. Obviously, the Communists don't have the slightest clue as to what they are doing. I just hope that none of the rioters get hurt in the process. Hope their "coup d'etat" will succeed!! |
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Let me also tell you another thing. A religious leader who wants to turn Turkey into an Islamic regime, kind of like Humeyni, has been given long-lasting permission to stay in US. And the witnesses that person used to seal that permission were people from your government, like the CIA leader. And, by the acts of the same religious person, and his people forging documents, right now, people who has strong Westerner beliefs are being put into jail, the media is being oppressed at a level that has never been seen before. People who carries strong beliefs against those radicals in Turkey has been turn into terrorists with those forged documents. Many of those documents came from a place called Utah, where that religious leader currently stays. Do you really want me to believe your country have nothing to do with anything. Your country still continues to mess up other countries to create regimes that he feel like he can control. The same thing has been going on for age Last edited by Sazelyt; 2009-04-08 at 12:11. |
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2009-04-08, 18:14 | Link #2177 |
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Pick and Choose, pick and choose. You avoid the whole entire point of my argument. Islam restricts women to be subservient to men which is not true, yet radicals continue to enact violence against women who seek to become educated. A religion that says that women are nothing more than servants to men is flawed because innocent people are still being butchered over what most of the DEVELOPED world considers fact that men and women are equal in mental capacity, and it is not genetic that men are superior to women.
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2009-04-08, 19:01 | Link #2178 |
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If you carry guns on a boat in international waters it doesn't look like a merchant vessel anymore now does it? It either looks like a pirate vessel or some kind of a government military/intelligence vessel. Governments are very picky about this.
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2009-04-08, 19:18 | Link #2179 | |
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Olympics: Tokyo Gov. Ishihara spells out reasons for hosting Olympics+
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2009-04-08, 19:52 | Link #2180 |
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i"d prefer madrid or rio de janeiro, those locals are really lovely, and really asia has gotten quite a couple of wins from the olympics commitee the past two decades so europe or sa actually would be a nice change, because you can't really just forget nagano was a decade ago.
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