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RE: Foreign Policy -- The Complicated Road Ahead - 9/19/2014 4:26:35 AM   
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Well, it's good to know that overthrowing democratically elected governments or invading a country and killing more than 100,000 civilians with out any initial provocation from either isn't considered going to extremes or anything.



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RE: Foreign Policy -- The Complicated Road Ahead - 9/19/2014 5:24:29 AM   
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"Jihad" doesn't mean "Holy War". It means "War". "Islamic Jihad" means "Holy War". "Islam" means "Holy".

Therefore, we are involved in a Jihad with a bunch of groups that believe that they are involved in an "Islamic Jihad" with us.

Unfortunately, when you're faced with extremists and extremism, you have to go to extremes. My mind immediately harkens to Hitler and Hirohito. We had to engage in extreme measures.

I'm on the fence about this issue because I don't recall ISIS attacking us but, I also put some stock in "Civus Romanus".







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If you follow Just Was Theory, jus ad bellum conditions have been met.

Unfortunately, Obama ending the war in Iraq without Jus post bellum, leading to this mess.

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RE: Foreign Policy -- The Complicated Road Ahead - 9/19/2014 7:14:46 AM   
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Yes, the only way to avoid violence is abject surrender.


Wasnt that the u.s. mantra...unconditional surrender?

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RE: Foreign Policy -- The Complicated Road Ahead - 9/19/2014 7:21:39 AM   
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What do we do, going forward, to help foment peace in the Middle East?

Appologize for being a jerk.
Pay reparations.
Refrain from acting like a jerk in the future.
Why is it that baldheaded fat guys cant figgure that out?

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RE: Foreign Policy -- The Complicated Road Ahead - 9/19/2014 7:24:36 AM   
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Unfortunately, when you're faced with extremists and extremism, you have to go to extremes.

Which is more extreme: executing a couple of civilian journalist or bombing a country back into the stone age?

My mind immediately harkens to Hitler and Hirohito. We had to engage in extreme measures.

Stalin took care of those two punks. The u.s. had very little to do with their demise.




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RE: Foreign Policy -- The Complicated Road Ahead - 9/19/2014 8:10:55 AM   
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With posts like the, DS will quickly put you on *ignore.*

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RE: Foreign Policy -- The Complicated Road Ahead - 9/19/2014 8:15:17 AM   
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Are they at war with us, or do they simply want us to stop meddling in their region. After the Russians pulled out of Afghanistan, Islamists left them alone.

Obama doesn't feel we have another TRILLION to spend; one would think more conservatives would be on board with that notion.

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RE: Foreign Policy -- The Complicated Road Ahead - 9/19/2014 8:57:25 AM   
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Yes, the only way to avoid violence is abject surrender.


Like the US 'abjectly surrendered' to 15 different S American and C American countries when we completely blew them up and set them to decades of ruin when they hadn't done a freaning thing to us before?

Or are you talking about when the US abjectly surrendered to Vietnam by killing 2 million of them? Or when we 'abjectly surrendered' to every other country we have directly invaded and destroyed by military or other indirect means?

If after all this you are still too stupid to figure out that when you hit somebody with a 32 lb. sledge hammer with out any legitimate provocation and they then happen to find a pebble and smack you in the head with it on their way down, that even token recognition of why they might have thrown the pebble in response to your initial unprovoked attack constitutes 'abject surrender,' it makes me wonder what the heck you got hit in the head with as a child.

If you don't want the violence, then don't commit it in the first place, end of story.

Otherwise, quit your sobbing and moaning about 'surrender' because you made the mistake of hitting the wrong guy and got surprised by the response, which one get's the feeling that you did on at least a few occasions in your youth, and you're still pissed off about it.

You are the most indefatigable chickenshit I've ever seen, I'll say that.


When you return to earth let me know.
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RE: Foreign Policy -- The Complicated Road Ahead - 9/19/2014 8:58:37 AM   
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AH! You provided your definition at last.

And let me tell you Bama, you didn't disappoint.



I have done so repeatedly .
Now it is your turn to answer my questions.

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RE: Foreign Policy -- The Complicated Road Ahead - 9/19/2014 9:00:18 AM   
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Wait.. you need to have it explained to you now?
I thought you were the fucking "expert".

Why don't you share some of your deep insight, fuck knows I need a good old belly laugh.

I want you to give your deep and thoughtful interpretation of Jihad, I need the laugh. I have told you what it is and you keep telling me I am wrong, so set me straight. I know, we just have to see their side of things, act accordingly and set up some schools to set things right. You never have explained how you set up those schools without establishing the stability needed for people to go to said schools without getting killed for it.


Revert of course.

I think there is a typo, didn't you mean convert?
Yes, the only way to avoid violence is abject surrender.


No, actually I meant revert.

Muslims believe that all people are born with a natural faith in God. According to Islam, children are born with an innate sense of God, which is called the fitrah. Therefore, some people see conversion to Islam as a "return" back to this original, pure faith. For this reason, many Muslims prefer to say that they have "reverted," rather than converted to Islam. A common definition of the word "revert" is to "return to a former condition or belief."

http://islam.about.com/od/converts/g/revert_gt.htm

You can also find numerous pages on FB and the interwebz in general for new reverts to Islam support.

It is actually the "more correct" term.

Ok, I see your point.

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RE: Foreign Policy -- The Complicated Road Ahead - 9/19/2014 9:03:53 AM   
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Are they at war with us, or do they simply want us to stop meddling in their region. After the Russians pulled out of Afghanistan, Islamists left them alone.

Obama doesn't feel we have another TRILLION to spend; one would think more conservatives would be on board with that notion.

They think they are, even Obama has admitted it. Although that was two or three days ago, he may have changed his mind by now.

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RE: Foreign Policy -- The Complicated Road Ahead - 9/19/2014 9:07:55 AM   
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Would one of you brilliant people stop telling me why it is all the fault of the U S, and how taking any military action is so evil and tell me how you are going to establish these schools when going to one or teaching in one is a capital offense.

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RE: Foreign Policy -- The Complicated Road Ahead - 9/19/2014 9:15:34 AM   
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"I taught the sheriff ...

But they say that it's a ca-pi-tal oh-fense ... "

Yeah, mon, I got theme song for you for dat one.


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RE: Foreign Policy -- The Complicated Road Ahead - 9/19/2014 9:16:08 AM   
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Would one of you brilliant people stop telling me why it is all the fault of the U S, and how taking any military action is so evil and tell me how you are going to establish these schools when going to one or teaching in one is a capital offense.


They cannot. This is because The International Community of the Ever So Caring and Sensitive (ICOTESCAS, Marca Registrada) Cannot admit that Islam - as a complete political, social, and legal system - is different in kind from every other _major_ religion, such that it is questionable - I believe impossible - to be both a devout Muslim and a good citizen. (You can be a fine citizen and a crappy Muslim, however.)

As an exception to the above, there is a strain of Islam that really is capable of both devoutness and citizenship, but it is a small minority strain. This is called "Quranic," as in, as one branch (here) phrased it, "The Quran, the whole Quran, and nothing but the Quran." In other words, all the hadiths and sunna are _out_. You would be surprised how much more reasonable it is without them, though there are still things in there that God has already legislated on and which man has no right to change, amend, modify, or limit.

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RE: Foreign Policy -- The Complicated Road Ahead - 9/19/2014 9:16:53 AM   
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Had we put schools in as begged for by Charlie Wilson after we drove the Russkies out of Afghanistan, we would not be having issues with the Taliban today (you know what taliban means, right?)

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RE: Foreign Policy -- The Complicated Road Ahead - 9/19/2014 9:20:13 AM   
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OTOH, perhaps we could build smarter 'smart bombs' that didn't blow up half the schools in those countries when we scorch-earth them.

Not to mention that the kids have a harder time making it to school when one of them in a group notices that bright shiny thing and picks it up to show his friends, too bad it was actually a cluster bomb or a mine.

-oops...






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RE: Foreign Policy -- The Complicated Road Ahead - 9/19/2014 9:24:10 AM   
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Would one of you brilliant people stop telling me why it is all the fault of the U S, and how taking any military action is so evil and tell me how you are going to establish these schools when going to one or teaching in one is a capital offense.


How bout we don't go there and do anything? Why don't we let them build their own schools?


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RE: Foreign Policy -- The Complicated Road Ahead - 9/19/2014 9:27:54 AM   
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They cannot. This is because The International Community of the Ever So Caring and Sensitive (ICOTESCAS, Marca Registrada) Cannot admit that Islam - as a complete political, social, and legal system - is different in kind from every other _major_ religion, such that it is questionable - I believe impossible - to be both a devout Muslim and a good citizen. (You can be a fine citizen and a crappy Muslim, however.)

Pretty much true of christians too.Didnt hobby lobby just get a dispensation from following the law because of their belief in their imaginary friend?

As an exception to the above, there is a strain of Islam that really is capable of both devoutness and citizenship, but it is a small minority strain. This is called "Quranic," as in, as one branch (here) phrased it, "The Quran, the whole Quran, and nothing but the Quran." In other words, all the hadiths and sunna are _out_. You would be surprised how much more reasonable it is without them, though there are still things in there that God has already legislated on and which man has no right to change, amend, modify, or limit.

Kinda like christians only without the nukes.

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RE: Foreign Policy -- The Complicated Road Ahead - 9/19/2014 9:31:16 AM   
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Would one of you brilliant people stop telling me why it is all the fault of the U S, and how taking any military action is so evil and tell me how you are going to establish these schools when going to one or teaching in one is a capital offense.


They cannot. This is because The International Community of the Ever So Caring and Sensitive (ICOTESCAS, Marca Registrada) Cannot admit that Islam - as a complete political, social, and legal system - is different in kind from every other _major_ religion, such that it is questionable - I believe impossible - to be both a devout Muslim and a good citizen. (You can be a fine citizen and a crappy Muslim, however.)

As an exception to the above, there is a strain of Islam that really is capable of both devoutness and citizenship, but it is a small minority strain. This is called "Quranic," as in, as one branch (here) phrased it, "The Quran, the whole Quran, and nothing but the Quran." In other words, all the hadiths and sunna are _out_. You would be surprised how much more reasonable it is without them, though there are still things in there that God has already legislated on and which man has no right to change, amend, modify, or limit.

No , I wouldn't. When I went to DLI most of my instructors were Sunni (much more laid back at that time) and one or two were Shia (even they were far more civilized than the Wahabi followers)
The problem is that Isis and Al Qaeda are Wahabists and only follow the more militant portions of the Koran.
It is as if a branch of Christianity were suddenly led by 15th century inquisitionists.
The last time an Islamic sect like this showed up the Sunnis and Shites joined forces (sort of) and exterminated them.

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RE: Foreign Policy -- The Complicated Road Ahead - 9/19/2014 11:18:38 AM   
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Would one of you brilliant people stop telling me why it is all the fault of the U S, and how taking any military action is so evil and tell me how you are going to establish these schools when going to one or teaching in one is a capital offense.


It's not a matter of whose fault it is. Maybe the US does share some portion of fault in all of this, but one of you brilliant people might consider explaining why all of this is the responsibility of the US that we are the only ones who can stop this "evil."

That's pretty much what's being said: If "we" don't face up to and stop this "evil," then nobody else will, it will spread and eventually cover the whole Middle East, and then the entire world...just like The Blob.


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