On Monday, June 16, 2014 1:49:08 AM UTC+great feat saying that one is
anti-war, when they claimed is merely, anti-American military. This is
clear today, it was clear three decades ago, when "anti-war" protesters,
protested only against Pershing missiles in west Europe, and then years
before this, during the Vietnam war, where they were against American
involvement, but said absolutely nothing about the Khmer Rouge slaying a
million Kampucheans. It's just not their world-wide, and what the Soviets
did was ok fine. So it was never war they were and are against. Nowadays
the same people are against US involvement, but Islamist warfare, is
something that they have zero comment over. Rhetorically, speaking, I
wonder why? But we both know, really. People can often never be in favor of
an idea or a policy, but there is a always the certainty of hated, that
quickness the blood, and defines who they are. It's an old game, after all.
What is the standard for authentic patriotism in the camp you're in? You
are talking about Islamic warfare...there isn't a lot of that on the
American continent. So where do you envisage this war talking place, next?
Are you able to list what interests the American people have in the region
you mention, and what is the dollar cost, you think, for what military
objective? How will success or failure be measured?
What value has the American people accrued from the Iraq war? It cost about
a trillion and half. That's enough to have retooled American industry into
a knock down competitive force. American might have had a very different
last decade.
A lot of people in America are poor, increasing numbers have job
insecurity. What is your equation that fighting another war in the middle
east (presumably) at presumably another trillion dollars, is a good way to
spend those Americans taxes?
Or is it a case of, guys that advocate for wars, in a time when vast
resources have been poured down the toilet for similar wars with zero value
as a result for American people, are by definition good patriots? I
mean...what if your motivations aren't patriotic? What's the standard? How
can anyone tell?
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> >>I style myself as informed about the aggressor.
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> Then I take it you have never ever lived in or even visited a Muslim
> country… you probably do not know any Arabs or other Muslims on a personal
> level, and have never shared food with them. And yet you consider yourself
> informed. Strange way of getting informed.
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> >> The clash of civilizations is already here, and has been here, off and
> on for a few decades, in its contemporary form.
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> Yes… I can see that this is what you have concluded, based on second and
> third hand accounts, written by propagandists with axes to grind. You are
> so sure of all of your conclusions, without ever having actually been to a
> Muslim country, without ever having actually met and lived amongst Arabs or
> other Muslims. You are sure because you read it somewhere, or more likely
> heard some talking head rave on about this “clash of civilizations”.
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> This does not seem all that rigorous to me; actually it seems rather more
> like the weak gruel of a regurgitated diet of cherry picked sound bites.
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> >>I do point out that many of the elites side with Saudi royals and
> accept donations from them, and many are liberals, the liberal elites, like
> the Clintons, and on the conservative side, the Bushes. To fight back
> against the Islamist imperialism takes foresight and determination. It also
> is good to know what you stand for and what you stand against? When people
> are anti-war, in the US, it invariably means they are against the US. It is
> never, ever, against the Islamists going to war. Now, I ask, rhetorically,
> why this is?
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> Haha – are you suggesting that calling into question your extremist and
> ill-informed world views is a form of anti-American treasonous activity?
> Typical, and exactly what I expected from an armchair general such as
> yourself. You have never actually seen war; you do not know what war really
> is; you are prejudiced and you pine for a genocidal clash of civilizations
> – but a bloody hell, for other people to go die in and kill for…. because I
> don’t see you volunteering, chickenhawk!
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> It is cowards, who demand war from the safety of their living rooms.
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> Chris
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> A few questions. Have you ever been to Afghanistan? Have you ever been to
> any Muslim country at all?
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> I ask, because you seem to style yourself an expert on the thinking and
> inner mind of people in the Middle East. So naturally I am curious about
> the nature of your expertise and from what fount of knowledge you drink.
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> Also… you leave me, still left wondering if you have ever actually been in
> a war zone and seen what war actually is about?
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> Why do I ask? It is to understand some kind of reason for the enthusiasm
> you seemingly display for a violent clash of civilizations.
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> Chris
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> I submit that with the official religion of Afghanistan, and with the
> enablement of Sharia, or a watered down form of it under the Afghani
> royals, is was a sucker for the Soviets. But the Soviets, under Brezhnev,
> war would have come anyway. It just would not have seemed such a slam dunk.
> The people, for example in Syria and Iraq, are part of the problem. As far
> as national complicity, against the Jihad and all that it means, I would
> have inflicted a lot more.
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> Afghanistan – which I have lived in before the Russians – has suffered war
> imposed on it by the great powers (of the era) since the British Raj. It is
> easy to blame these victims of a forty year state of war – counting from
> the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; it is a little bit harder to understand
> the degree to which their lives have become shattered by war. Maybe because
> it is uncomfortable to admit our national complicity in the deaths of so
> many goat and sheep herders.
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> Yes, its called the United States. The people that you cite want to go to
> paradise, Jannah, so sacrificing sons, and brothers is a noble feat for
> them, the ticket to women and wine literally. Peace, under Quran, Soonah,
> Bukhari, is not permitted between a Kurfar (infidel) and a Muslim, on a
> hudna, a truce is permitted. You cannot separate Afghanistan from its
> belief systems. You cannot separate Iraq and Syria from its belief
> systems.
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> A few questions. Have you ever been to Afghanistan? Have you ever been to
> any Muslim country at all?
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> I ask, because you seem to style yourself an expert on the thinking and
> inner mind of people in the Middle East. So naturally I am curious about
> the nature of your expertise and from what fount of knowledge you drink.
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> Also… you leave me, still left wondering if you have ever actually been in
> a war zone and seen what war actually is about?
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> Why do I ask? It is to understand some kind of reason for the enthusiasm
> you seemingly display for a violent clash of civilizations.
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> Chris
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> *Have you ever lived in a war zone? I have. I have witnessed the horror of
> modern war (as a young teenager); I have looked into empty soul dead eyes
> of profoundly traumatized people… have you ever had such experiences?*
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> *Those who have truly experienced war tend not to be so enthusiastic about
> violence as a means to solving problems, unless they are psychopaths who
> enjoy it that is.*
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> Yes, cycles absolutely can be broken, last things first, but first, people
> have to see in themselves that something is wrong. This, we must conclude
> is fairly, rare. The kind of people I am referring to, are the kind of
> people, that over your dead body, get to heaven in a little green boat, as
> the kiddie ditty went. On top of this we have unmedicated, and
> undermedicated, people with deep personality disorders. The Hatfield-McCoy
> thing when applied elsewhere in the world lack the cultural background.
> Also, there's no reward to stopping a bad habit, and there's no sufficient
> incentive to starting good ones. With the mental problem aspect there is
> something we can do, which is medication and therapy. With
> cultural-religious driven attacks, this is more complicated. But first, one
> must have the will and desire to radically change things, on the ground.
> The ruling elites, have no great incentive to do things which halt what is
> going on, nor, is there a great enough punishment, if they are doing
> political malpractice. Thus, the world rolls on as it has.
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> It seems to me that you are ignoring a massive incentive to violence
> arising from the utter fragmentation of all social structures resulting
> from an unending state of war, imposed on the suffering goat herders you
> seem to enjoy demoniz
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