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[quote who="maudlin27" reply="1" id="1848890"]So am I right in thinking that you're saying if 2000 people died, the invasion was justified, but if 133 died it wasn't? By that reasoning, how many people would have needed to die in the attack on the World Trade Centres before the invasion of Afghanistan was/wasn't justified? If only 200 had been killed would the US have shrugged it's shoulders and decided not to invade? More interestingly, think about it in terms of the % of that countries civi

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I keep hearing people brandishing about this "2000 South Ossetians civiliains killed by the Georgians" as justification of the Russian invasion, showing how Georgia instigated this attack. What those people either fail to realize or willfully ignore is that figure was a ballpark number given to the media by the Russian generals who executed the invasion. The only hard, non-propaganda data we have on the number of civilians killed by Georgian forces is from the South Oss

[quote who="Artysim" reply="3" id="1845357"]They did nothing wrong, threatened no nation, made no war. So, a surprise attack on a defenceless city with artillery and aerial bombardment in the middle of the night in which almost 2,000 civillians were killed is doing no wrong? Cause that's what Georgia did. Russia interjected in the claim of special regional interest, the same justification that the U.S used to invade Panama and Grenada!!![/quote] <p

Wow, an anti-McCain protester was removed from a McCain rally. Shocking! I wonder if it's related to the removal of the Muslim women from an Obama rally photo-op?

Is it just me, or does your post have nothing to do with your topic. How disappointing.

a pet peeve of mine...it is "accept" not "except" I have to ask, have you been reading these forums at all? Lurk a bit? Because I don't think your, well, opinion fits in very well on these discussion boards? "So think about it some 15 year old girl telling you change i normal except it and you'll be excpeted." On second thought, I think you're a troll! Are you trying to make fun of Obamabots? That's not very nice of you, lol!

I worked at NASA for two years helping (in a minor way) to lay the groundwork for a Lunar Mining vehicle/module, and can say with great certainty that 1. You're right, he Moon is the most plentiful source of Helium-3 we have access to. (and, in short, Helium-3 is an optimal candidate for nuclear fusion fuel) 2. We're more likely to get hydrogen fuel cells working before we develop a functional fusion reactor (a stable tokamak reactor, for instance). 3. When we finally

The inconvenient truth is that the more a government redistributes the wealth of an economy, the smaller the total pie of the economy becomes. In other words, rather than fight inequality the US has thrived by growing the pie larger and larger, so that even the poor are relatively well-off (ie those in poverty with color television, etc.). Bigger pie means everyone gets a larger piece! It's the old joke, in Soviet Russia, everyone is equal, equally poor! Sad

[quote]You would think differently if you met me, but whatever you almighty one. I shall kneel to your all knowing 1 quote of vague proof.[/quote] After reading what you have said since coming to this forum, I agree with Parated8k, though I think idiotic is a bit too harsh. I think you are just a bit of a greenhorn, with a fun mix of naivety and ignorance that makes you very fun to hang out with but appear lacking in discussions such as this one. Perhaps it would be wise to li

Cultural suicide...sounds like a good term for the EU. What happens when the birth rate is negative and the country is being flooded with quickly-reproducing immigrants who reject the native culture (Arab/Muslims in Britain, France, Denmark)? In the terms of the great game, Sid Meier's Civilization, a cultural conversion! Europe fails...

Wasn't this train headed to National Service? Oh wait, dammit, this train's been hijacked...I'm getting off now. Literally.

Leave it to the Russians to remind us how the rest of the world fights their wars... with savage brutality with zero no-fire zones with no mercy.

Wait a second, we haven't been drilling because it would take "10 years" before we see any benefit, right? It has taken much longer than 50 years to develop an alternative to oil, and we STILL have seen no effective alternative solution. Since that's WAY longer than 10 years, we shouldn't be wasting money on alternative fuel development, right? The sad truth is we have 90% of the tech we need to convert to a nuclear/electric vehicle based economy RIGHT NOW. All that is needed i

Inflation and deflation are the results of a change in either the amount of currency circulation through an economy, or the total value of goods and services produced by the economy. A good way to explain this is via a small town with one bank that prints money, and five farming families. The bank prints 5 promissory notes, which we'll call simoleons for fun, and gives one to each family. The value of each family's farm and crops grown, assuming all families are equal, then, is one simole

[quote]True, but it is an awful admission of incompetence of command for the first five years. Furthermore, it is axiomatic--until Vietnam, that is--that a foothold is not secure if it is not held for good.[/quote] Indeed, it is embarrassing for the generals and the pentagon...but that has always been our problem. Our military complex is always busy training to fight the last war. We used Napoleonic tactics (designed with inaccurate muskets in mind) with the first ever mass-produce

Are none of you familiar with the Anbar Awakening? There has been significant political peacemaking throughout the country thanks to the breathing space provided by the surge. For the first time in years, Shia militias aren't attacking Sunni neighborhoods! If that's not political progress, what the hell do you expect? You expect the Iraqi government to solve all its problems within a few months of the violence slowing? Our own government cannot seem to pull us out of our own energy cris

The republicans don't have an alternative energy plan? Last time I checked, McCain wanted to build over 30 nuclear power plants ASAP, and match that with massive funding of electric car development. It's an answer that we can do with today's technology, right now, if the nation actually decided to go for it. Considering that both Britain and France have ordered construction of dozens of nuclear power plants, what the hell are the Democrats waiting for? They should uni

What you are missing is that along with the "surge" of troops, the Military adopted the new doctrine of Gen. Petraeus. We quite literally changed the way we used our troops in conflict, as dramatically as the British developing tanks because trench warfare wasn't working in WWI. Rather than thinking in fronts of enemy activity, where we would move into a town or district of Baghdad and push out the insurgents, and then return to HQ, we began using an ambush and encirclement tactic.

I think I'd prefer voting for Dr. Pepper over my rep, Dennis Kucinich!

[quote]I think a free market with certain government interventions is best. We need the government to promote the common good of all people over the common good of an individual, and to realize economies of scale in certain industries where an individual's resources are not enough on one's own to do whatever it is that needs to be done. I suppose in a truly free market situation that a corporation could be formed instead of the government, but in the area of actual human necessities (food, wat

[quote]He doesn't mention the violence, but you're a man of the world, have you ever heard of an unregulated free market economy that doesn't end in repression?[/quote] Have you ever heard of a command economy that doesn't end in the Gulag?

[quote]Everyone takes advantage of cheap labor wherever they can. Right, screw humanity.[/quote] The reality is that the majority of unskilled labour that humans do simply will not support an American lifestyle. America has had a labour bubble after WWII, where Americans were the only ones with an intact economy that could afford to pay its laborers a middle-class wage. Now, the rest of the world has finally caught up, and thus the value of the individual human's efforts simply

[quote]Because many of us are smart enough to understand that the culture of dependence is a trap that's almost impossible to extricate oneself from. This is not true. There are many people that can get off of being dependent of others. What matters is role models around them and how they are encouraged. If they are simply handed stuff with no end in sight then they will stay dependent, however if there is a goal, end or role model to help them they will get off of be

I fail to see how letting our domestic oil production "die off," as you put it, will improve our situation any? Otherwise, good job on pointing out a fact few in the media seem to care about.