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pgardn 01-06-2009 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Quiet Chris
Who cares if it is on the front page? Gossip makes the front page.

These are two groups of people that have failed to evolve. They are religious wackos living in the stone ages. Both of them.

If the world is around in 1000 years, these two neanderthal groups will still be fighting.

You are right.
The only people that have an impact
on "our" lives in any way are family and friends.
Make the world as small and as comfy as possible.

It just like a little family squabble.
Just gossip. No one cares and it really
does not matter.

Cannon Shell 01-06-2009 11:40 PM

The US education system is a disgrace....

Quiet Chris 01-06-2009 11:56 PM

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Originally Posted by hoovesupsideyourhead
Every time these religious wackos in Israel and Gaza start fighting the price of gas goes up. So basically my gas costs more because of neanderthals in the middle east. Ridiculous.

thats one large anti semetic statement..im quite possitive you dont have a ****ing clue about anything outside your apt building.dont make the mistake of grouping the hamas and the people of isreal in same fanatical tone.[/quote]


No, it is not anti-semetic, it is anti religious wackos. There are plenty of religious wackos that are muslims and christians.

The fact is Israel is a nation built on a religion, just like a lot of muslim countries. This is 2009, intelligent people know religions are man made and have no place in the governing of people.

All I know is the US is not run by a religion and we don't seem to have the problems the neanderthals in the middle east have.

What makes these religious wackos any more important than poor people in Africa? I have no problem giving money to poor people, I have a problem giving my money to crazy countries to buy weapons and blow each other up.

If backwards countries like Israel and Egypt want weapons they should use their own people's tax dollars, not mine.
I prefer my tax dollars go to American schools and healthcare for people in MY OWN COUNTRY.

declansharbor 01-06-2009 11:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
The US education system is a disgrace....

because of Quiet Chris? :rolleyes:

As Linc Stark said " You can't be that BONE PHUCKING stupid." Sadly, QC is.

declansharbor 01-06-2009 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Quiet Chris
thats one large anti semetic statement..im quite possitive you dont have a ****ing clue about anything outside your apt building.dont make the mistake of grouping the hamas and the people of isreal in same fanatical tone.


No, it is not anti-semetic, it is anti religious wackos. There are plenty of religious wackos that are muslims and christians.

The fact is Israel is a nation built on a religion, just like a lot of muslim countries. This is 2009, intelligent people know religions are man made and have no place in the governing of people.

All I know is the US is not run by a religion and we don't seem to have the problems the neanderthals in the middle east have.

What makes these religious wackos any more important than poor people in Africa? I have no problem giving money to poor people, I have a problem giving my money to crazy countries to buy weapons and blow each other up.

If backwards countries like Israel and Egypt want weapons they should use their own people's tax dollars, not mine.
I prefer my tax dollars go to American schools and healthcare for people in MY OWN COUNTRY.[/quote]

Okay Einstein,

What are we to do if and when they blow each other off of the map? Answer this honestly.

Cannon Shell 01-06-2009 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Quiet Chris
thats one large anti semetic statement..im quite possitive you dont have a ****ing clue about anything outside your apt building.dont make the mistake of grouping the hamas and the people of isreal in same fanatical tone.


No, it is not anti-semetic, it is anti religious wackos. There are plenty of religious wackos that are muslims and christians.

The fact is Israel is a nation built on a religion, just like a lot of muslim countries. This is 2009, intelligent people know religions are man made and have no place in the governing of people.

All I know is the US is not run by a religion and we don't seem to have the problems the neanderthals in the middle east have.

What makes these religious wackos any more important than poor people in Africa? I have no problem giving money to poor people, I have a problem giving my money to crazy countries to buy weapons and blow each other up.

If backwards countries like Israel and Egypt want weapons they should use their own people's tax dollars, not mine.
I prefer my tax dollars go to American schools and healthcare for people in MY OWN COUNTRY.[/quote]





Tax dollars didnt do much for your education

I want to blast you but simply dont know where to start....

Cannon Shell 01-07-2009 12:04 AM

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Originally Posted by declansharbor
because of Quiet Chris? :rolleyes:

As Linc Stark said " You can't be that BONE PHUCKING stupid." Sadly, QC is.

I just dont know where to start. The scary thing it that there are so many out there with the same twisted and idiotic views.

declansharbor 01-07-2009 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
I just dont know where to start. The scary thing it that there are so many out there with the same twisted and idiotic views.

Amazing, isnt it?

I'd say he's trolling to get a rise out of some people, but I think he might ACTUALLY feel this way. Talk about clueless.

Quiet Chris 01-07-2009 12:11 AM

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Originally Posted by declansharbor
because of Quiet Chris? :rolleyes:

As Linc Stark said " You can't be that BONE PHUCKING stupid." Sadly, QC is.

I am just going to guess a guy that trains horses for a living is not as educated as I am. :eek:

I love all you people who think you know everything about the world. I have been in 16 countries on 4 different continents. Most of you probably have never even lived more than a week outside the country.

I am a strict isolationist. I don't believe a country $10 trillion in debt that will be running a $2 trillion deficit in 2009 should give a nickel to neanderthal countries like Egypt and Israel. We should never have spent a nickel in Iraq either. This entire part of the world is still living in the stone ages.

Let's get down on our knees 5x a day to pray to God and then leave little girls in buildings to burn because they don't have on the right "headgear".

Or let's not mix milk and meat because God doesn't like it especially when we don't cover our head with a piece of cloth.

These are the type of wackos running countries. Ridiculous.

Should we really be surprised these crazy people have been killing each other for thousands of years.

Quiet Chris 01-07-2009 12:15 AM

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Originally Posted by declansharbor
Amazing, isnt it?

I'd say he's trolling to get a rise out of some people, but I think he might ACTUALLY feel this way. Talk about clueless.


Oh, I am not trolling. I am actually in the majority. Americans don't like giving money to crazy people to blow each other up when we have people in our own country that need health care and jobs, many of which are muslims and jews, and they are AMERICANS.

SCUDSBROTHER 01-07-2009 12:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Quiet Chris
I don't really care what Israel does. It isn't America. They can defend themselves. I never understood why they were such wimps and let these crazy people constantly terrorize them. But the fact is they are not as crazy as the Arabs, but they are pretty close.


They aren't like the Arabs. My guess is Israeli men get arrested for beating their wife up, but it's a guess. I haven't heard Israelis suggest that Arab countries should be wiped off the face of the Earth. As you can see, when rockets are shot into Israel, the Arabs (who shot them) target Kindergarten Schools etc. (not troops in particular.) They often fail to kill kids because the kids are kept home in bomb shelters that each Israeli house seems to have. Israeli soldiers are out away from other citizens. Compare that to Hamas members that surround themselves with women and children, and then claim Iraelis target civilians. Evidently, the people of Gaza voted for Hamas. They are quiet when Hamas shoots rockets into another country, but it's a different story when those bombs come right back at Hamas members. Arabs kill each other all the time, and it's only when they are harmed by Israelis that human life seems all that important to them. Same with other Muslims. Turks and Kurds kill each other all the time, and are proud of it. Soon as Israel started going after their fellow Muslims( Hamas members,) the leader of Turkey brought out the crime against humanity line.

Quiet Chris 01-07-2009 12:19 AM

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Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER
They aren't like the Arabs. My guess is Israeli men get arrested for beating their wife up, but it's a guess. I haven't heard Israelis suggest that Arab countries should be wiped off the face of the Earth. As you can see, when rockets are shot into Israel, the Arabs (who shot them) target Kindergarten Schools etc. (not troops in particular.) They often fail to kill kids because the kids are kept home in bomb shelters that each Israeli house seems to have. Israeli soldiers are out away from other citizens. Compare that to Hamas members that surround themselves with woman and children, and then claim Iraelis target civilians. Evidently, the people of Gaza voted for Hamas. They are quiet when Hamas shoots rockets into another country, but it's a different story when those bombs come right back at Hamas members. I don't think the Israelis are like the Arabs. Arabs kill each other all the time, and it's only when they are harmed by Israelis that human life seems all that important to them. Same with other Muslims. Turks and Kurds kill each other all the time, and are proud of it. Soon as Israel started going after their fellow Muslims( Hamas members,) the leader of Turkey brought out the crime against humanity line.

Great. So they should raise their taxes and pay for the military they need to protect them. This is not my problem or any taxpayer in americas problem.

Why should I be paying higher taxes so Israelis and Egyptians can pay lower taxes?

We have a situation where some working class americans are paying taxes to give aid to countries like Israel and Egypt, and there are plenty of wealthy people in their countries living better lives than working class americans. Let their people buy their own weapons. Not my problem.

Danzig 01-07-2009 12:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Quiet Chris
I am just going to guess a guy that trains horses for a living is not as educated as I am. :eek:

I love all you people who think you know everything about the world. I have been in 16 countries on 4 different continents. Most of you probably have never even lived more than a week outside the country.

I am a strict isolationist. I don't believe a country $10 trillion in debt that will be running a $2 trillion deficit in 2009 should give a nickel to neanderthal countries like Egypt and Israel. We should never have spent a nickel in Iraq either. This entire part of the world is still living in the stone ages.

Let's get down on our knees 5x a day to pray to God and then leave little girls in buildings to burn because they don't have on the right "headgear".

Or let's not mix milk and meat because God doesn't like it especially when we don't cover our head with a piece of cloth.

These are the type of wackos running countries. Ridiculous.

Should we really be surprised these crazy people have been killing each other for thousands of years.

wow, i would have never guessed. :rolleyes:

declansharbor 01-07-2009 12:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quiet Chris
I am just going to guess a guy that trains horses for a living is not as educated as I am. :eek:

I love all you people who think you know everything about the world. I have been in 16 countries on 4 different continents. Most of you probably have never even lived more than a week outside the country.

I am a strict isolationist. I don't believe a country $10 trillion in debt that will be running a $2 trillion deficit in 2009 should give a nickel to neanderthal countries like Egypt and Israel. We should never have spent a nickel in Iraq either. This entire part of the world is still living in the stone ages.

Let's get down on our knees 5x a day to pray to God and then leave little girls in buildings to burn because they don't have on the right "headgear".

Or let's not mix milk and meat because God doesn't like it especially when we don't cover our head with a piece of cloth.

These are the type of wackos running countries. Ridiculous.

Should we really be surprised these crazy people have been killing each other for thousands of years.

You are right. We should just pull out all of our intelligence gatherers and our military presence from the region. Let them go lawless for a decade or so, build up another Afghanistan or two. That'll end well. :rolleyes:

The fact remains Chris, that we are not the only country in the world believe it or not. You, being Christopher Columbus, the world traveler, should realize this. Sometimes the crap that happens abroad has as much affect on the US as the domestic stuff, sometimes more. Are we to just look the other way??? I sure as $hit hope we wouldnt.

Quiet Chris 01-07-2009 12:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Danzig
wow, i would have never guessed. :rolleyes:

I seemed to have been proven right on this over and over, just like the man who founded this country warned us.

That UN has worked out real well. :eek:

When they aren't screwing up the world they are molesting little girls all over the world. Great.

That globalization has worked real well too. Tell it to all the people that lost their manufacturing jobs to slave labor in China.

Cannon Shell 01-07-2009 12:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Quiet Chris
I am just going to guess a guy that trains horses for a living is not as educated as I am. :eek:

I love all you people who think you know everything about the world. I have been in 16 countries on 4 different continents. Most of you probably have never even lived more than a week outside the country.

I am a strict isolationist. I don't believe a country $10 trillion in debt that will be running a $2 trillion deficit in 2009 should give a nickel to neanderthal countries like Egypt and Israel. We should never have spent a nickel in Iraq either. This entire part of the world is still living in the stone ages.

Let's get down on our knees 5x a day to pray to God and then leave little girls in buildings to burn because they don't have on the right "headgear".

Or let's not mix milk and meat because God doesn't like it especially when we don't cover our head with a piece of cloth.

These are the type of wackos running countries. Ridiculous.

Should we really be surprised these crazy people have been killing each other for thousands of years.

Well I would think that an educated guy like yourself would have a little better grasp of the world than you've shown. Though neither of my degrees is in history I have read a little bit about it and do spend time trying to understand world affairs unlike yourself who obviously lives in a vaccum or is just an idiot. Either way I have a few grooms that work for me that have visited many countires and even worked in them and none has applied for MENSA yet. And they even speak more than one language....

Quiet Chris 01-07-2009 12:26 AM

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Originally Posted by declansharbor
You are right. We should just pull out all of our intelligence gatherers and our military presence from the region. Let them go lawless for a decade or so, build up another Afghanistan or two. That'll end well. :rolleyes:

The fact remains Chris, that we are not the only country in the world believe it or not. You, being Christopher Columbus, the world traveler, should realize this. Sometimes the crap that happens abroad has as much affect on the US as the domestic stuff, sometimes more. Are we to just look the other way??? I sure as $hit hope we wouldnt.

Last I checked it was our giving weapons to the Afghan army to fight the Russians that allowed the problems in Afghanistan to come about.

Learn something about history before making moronic statements.

The US created the Taliban with its ridiculous interventionist policies.

Danzig 01-07-2009 12:27 AM

makes you wonder what chris would do if he was walking down the street and witnessed a guy attacking a girl. i'm betting he'd pull his hat down a bit lower, stick his hands in his pockets, begin to whistle and act nonchalant, while pretending not to see what was happening. after all, it's not chris' problem. people get attacked every day, why should he care?
there were isolationists back during WW2 as well..
fact remains, altho the 'majority' chris proclaims to speak for may feel we should remain locked in our own little world, the realities of these situations is quite different. anyone other than uneducated horse trainers (j/k cannon, i'm cracking wise because of a certain remark above somewhere) would know that you don't pretend to not see what's going on, especially when it's your allies taking the heat. thankfully for this country, we were the recipient of aid back when we needed it. and now, altho we may not be quite as rich as we thought we were, we can certainly take care of our own, as well as those abroad who are less fortunate. especially when it's one of the lone democracies in that area. we have influence, and have every reason to use it-always wisely hopefully.

Quiet Chris 01-07-2009 12:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
Well I would think that an educated guy like yourself would have a little better grasp of the world than you've shown. Though neither of my degrees is in history I have read a little bit about it and do spend time trying to understand world affairs unlike yourself who obviously lives in a vaccum or is just an idiot. Either way I have a few grooms that work for me that have visited many countires and even worked in them and none has applied for MENSA yet. And they even speak more than one language....

All I know is history is on my side, not yours. The Middle East has been a cesspool for centuries. That is what happens when religious wackos run every country in the region.

Let me know when they get a sustained peace there, then you can tell me the billions and billions of dollars we have sent into the cesspool of a region actually has worked. Keep waiting, it isn't ever going to happen. Crazy religious people are just that, crazy.

Cannon Shell 01-07-2009 12:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Quiet Chris
I seemed to have been proven right on this over and over, just like the man who founded this country warned us.

That UN has worked out real well. :eek:

When they aren't screwing up the world they are molesting little girls all over the world. Great.

That globalization has worked real well too. Tell it to all the people that lost their manufacturing jobs to slave labor in China.

It keeps getting better....

Cannon Shell 01-07-2009 12:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Quiet Chris
Last I checked it was our giving weapons to the Afghan army to fight the Russians that allowed the problems in Afghanistan to come about.

Learn something about history before making moronic statements.

The US created the Taliban with its ridiculous interventionist policies.

I'm sure that they would have been fine citizens of the USSR.

Quiet Chris 01-07-2009 12:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Danzig
makes you wonder what chris would do if he was walking down the street and witnessed a guy attacking a girl. i'm betting he'd pull his hat down a bit lower, stick his hands in his pockets, begin to whistle and act nonchalant, while pretending not to see what was happening. after all, it's not chris' problem. people get attacked every day, why should he care?
there were isolationists back during WW2 as well..
fact remains, altho the 'majority' chris proclaims to speak for may feel we should remain locked in our own little world, the realities of these situations is quite different. anyone other than uneducated horse trainers (j/k cannon, i'm cracking wise because of a certain remark above somewhere) would know that you don't pretend to not see what's going on, especially when it's your allies taking the heat. thankfully for this country, we were the recipient of aid back when we needed it. and now, altho we may not be quite as rich as we thought we were, we can certainly take care of our own, as well as those abroad who are less fortunate. especially when it's one of the lone democracies in that area. we have influence, and have every reason to use it-always wisely hopefully.

I would help the girl because my actions would actually mean something.

What is going to happen in the Middle East to change anything.

Please tell me, and while you are at it tell every Secretary or State and President this country has ever known. None of them have done a thing except throw billions of dollars into the cesspool of a region.

Danzig 01-07-2009 12:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Quiet Chris
Last I checked it was our giving weapons to the Afghan army to fight the Russians that allowed the problems in Afghanistan to come about.
Learn something about history before making moronic statements.

The US created the Taliban with its ridiculous interventionist policies.

or, you could look at our aid to the afgans as one tool in our fight to win the cold war. you do know we won that, right?

declansharbor 01-07-2009 12:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Quiet Chris
Last I checked it was our giving weapons to the Afghan army to fight the Russians that allowed the problems in Afghanistan to come about.

Learn something about history before making moronic statements.

The US created the Taliban with its ridiculous interventionist policies.

You said this while looking into a mirror and thought it would be a good one, right?

We gave the weapons to the Afghans??? Get out!!:rolleyes: Thanks for the history lesson. :D

Danzig 01-07-2009 12:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Quiet Chris
I would help the girl because my actions would actually mean something.

What is going to happen in the Middle East to change anything.

Please tell me, and while you are at it tell every Secretary or State and President this country has ever known. None of them have done a thing except throw billions of dollars into the cesspool of a region.

apparently you're refusing to believe that anything has happened over the years to change things. do the names sadat and begin mean anything at all to you?

Quiet Chris 01-07-2009 12:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
I'm sure that they would have been fine citizens of the USSR.

Yeah, last I checked the country of Afghanistan is virtually impossible to take over. If you think differently, go spend a few weeks there and explore the terrain. It is an impossible country to take over, which the idiots in our government are about to find out. Our intelligence agencies have said for decades that Afghanistan is a dead end for anyone that tries to occupy it.

Quiet Chris 01-07-2009 12:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Danzig
apparently you're refusing to believe that anything has happened over the years to change things. do the names sadat and begin mean anything at all to you?


Nothing has changed. Last I checked they were still killing each other this weekend.

The crazy people always take a few years off to regroup and pretend they will have a sustained peace and in exchange they get more US tax dollars.

I can assure you in 1000 years they still will be killing each other because that is what crazy religious people do.

Cannon Shell 01-07-2009 12:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Quiet Chris
All I know is history is on my side, not yours. The Middle East has been a cesspool for centuries. That is what happens when religious wackos run every country in the region.

Let me know when they get a sustained peace there, then you can tell me the billions and billions of dollars we have sent into the cesspool of a region actually has worked. Keep waiting, it isn't ever going to happen. Crazy religious people are just that, crazy.

Great argument. So we should have let Hitler win in Europe? Let Japan take Eastern Asia? Let Russia park missiles in Cuba? Let Korea become Communist? The World would be a better place then? The middle East may be a pain in the ass but last I looked some of those wacko religious countries were sponsoring terrorism and developing nuclear bombs. Should we just let Isreal take them out first and worry about the fallout later?

declansharbor 01-07-2009 12:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Quiet Chris
Yeah, last I checked the country of Afghanistan is virtually impossible to take over. If you think differently, go spend a few weeks there and explore the terrain. It is an impossible country to take over, which the idiots in our government are about to find out. Our intelligence agencies have said for decades that Afghanistan is a dead end for anyone that tries to occupy it.

Do us a favor. You do it. Enjoy it and stay there.

Danzig 01-07-2009 12:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
Great argument. So we should have let Hitler win in Europe? Let Japan take Eastern Asia? Let Russia park missiles in Cuba? Let Korea become Communist? The World would be a better place then? The middle East may be a pain in the ass but last I looked some of those wacko religious countries were sponsoring terrorism and developing nuclear bombs. Should we just let Isreal take them out first and worry about the fallout later?

c'mon cannon, most of those folks were just whackos...but not religious whackos. no comparison.
thankfully, not the well travelled intelligentsia like QC mapping out our foreign policy.

SCUDSBROTHER 01-07-2009 12:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Quiet Chris
Great. So they should raise their taxes and pay for the military they need to protect them. This is not my problem or any taxpayer in americas problem.

Why should I be paying higher taxes so Israelis and Egyptians can pay lower taxes?

We have a situation where some working class americans are paying taxes to give aid to countries like Israel and Egypt, and there are plenty of wealthy people in their countries living better lives than working class americans. Let their people buy their own weapons. Not my problem.

Well, the Saudis are raising money all the time to give to those willing to destroy Israel. Are we supposed to sit back like the world did when the Nazis killed all those Jews for being of a specific race? Would you have been willing to fight to stop that from taking place? They don't want you to, but I think a little help for actual friends is money well spent. Whether we like it or not, we have a common enemy(Islam is not a friend of those who value freedom.)

Quiet Chris 01-07-2009 12:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Danzig
or, you could look at our aid to the afgans as one tool in our fight to win the cold war. you do know we won that, right?

We didn't need to give aid to Afghanistan and we still would have won the cold war. Afghanistan is impossible to take over.

Go watch a movie like Charlie Wilson's War and you will see how the US never wanted the Afghans to win the war, they just wanted the Russians bogged down there.

And you still don't address the fact that our aid to Afghanistan created the Taliban. I guess you just like to look past that part. :eek:

Danzig 01-07-2009 12:41 AM

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Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER
Well, the Saudis are raising money all the time to give to those willing to destroy Israel. Are we supposed to sit back like the world did when the Nazis killed all those Jews for being of a specific race? Would you have been willing to fight to stop that from taking place? They don't want you to, but I think a little help for actual friends is money well spent. Whether we like it or not, we have a common enemy(Islam is not a friend of those who value freedom.)

yep, apparently that's exactly what we're supposed to do. same as in darfur, has nothing to do with us. or somalia, bosnia, etc....

Quiet Chris 01-07-2009 12:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
Great argument. So we should have let Hitler win in Europe? Let Japan take Eastern Asia? Let Russia park missiles in Cuba? Let Korea become Communist? The World would be a better place then? The middle East may be a pain in the ass but last I looked some of those wacko religious countries were sponsoring terrorism and developing nuclear bombs. Should we just let Isreal take them out first and worry about the fallout later?

No. Because those battles involved American interests. There were real powers involved that were a threat to the US. Not some little crazy middle east countries that are full of religious wackos.

Danzig 01-07-2009 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Quiet Chris
We didn't need to give aid to Afghanistan and we still would have won the cold war. Afghanistan is impossible to take over.

Go watch a movie like Charlie Wilson's War and you will see how the US never wanted the Afghans to win the war, they just wanted the Russians bogged down there.

And you still don't address the fact that our aid to Afghanistan created the Taliban. I guess you just like to look past that part. :eek:

you're barking up the wrong tree if you think i will go watch a movie to get an actual, usable history lesson. do you think the movie jfk was real too? and i would disagree that we didn't need to give aid. if the ussr was for something, generally it would be bad for the u.s. you do remember that we were their sworn enemy?
we also backed iraq when they fought iran-that probably gives you the heebie-jeebies just thinking about it.

Quiet Chris 01-07-2009 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Danzig
yep, apparently that's exactly what we're supposed to do. same as in darfur, has nothing to do with us. or somalia, bosnia, etc....

Oh yes. Let me guess, you wanted to send people like my brother to go fight in crazy African countries, but I am going to guess you never joined the military to go help. :eek:

Give me a break. All that happens when you help these crazy people is good american men and women who serve their country get killed for nothing.

Darfur is not an American problem. It is an African problem.

Please explain to me what America is supposed to do. I love all you people with all the ideas but with no solutions.

Cannon Shell 01-07-2009 12:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Quiet Chris
I would help the girl because my actions would actually mean something.

What is going to happen in the Middle East to change anything.

Please tell me, and while you are at it tell every Secretary or State and President this country has ever known. None of them have done a thing except throw billions of dollars into the cesspool of a region.

Maybe the fact that the majority of the worlds oil and refineries are there makes it a bit important? Despite your comments about oil independence the reality of the situation is that the worlds modern economies run on oil. If you drastically cut the supply from the middle east then the wonderful people from Venezuela and Russia gain power. Is that a good thing? Think Russia and old Hugo will sell us bargin rate oil? Think the Russians may use the extra money they get in becoming the worlds leading oil producer to rebuild their military and nuclear programs? Is that a good thing?

Danzig 01-07-2009 12:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Quiet Chris
No. Because those battles involved American interests. There were real powers involved that were a threat to the US. Not some little crazy middle east countries that are full of religious wackos.

chris....re-read what you just wrote. if you think that these middle eastern countries, iran and syria for instance, post no threat, and don't involve american interests, you're out of your gourd.

declansharbor 01-07-2009 12:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Quiet Chris
We didn't need to give aid to Afghanistan and we still would have won the cold war. Afghanistan is impossible to take over.

Go watch a movie like Charlie Wilson's War and you will see how the US never wanted the Afghans to win the war, they just wanted the Russians bogged down there.

And you still don't address the fact that our aid to Afghanistan created the Taliban. I guess you just like to look past that part. :eek:

Kind of like you and my question of what we are to do as a country if and when the Israelis and Palestinians blow each other off the map??

Sit back and finish off our cheddar fries?

Quiet Chris 01-07-2009 12:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Danzig
you're barking up the wrong tree if you think i will go watch a movie to get an actual, usable history lesson. do you think the movie jfk was real too? and i would disagree that we didn't need to give aid. if the ussr was for something, generally it would be bad for the u.s. you do remember that we were their sworn enemy?
we also backed iraq when they fought iran-that probably gives you the heebie-jeebies just thinking about it.

The US built up Saddam. And thousands of members of the military died in a pointless war to get rid of him.

I love all you people who have nobody in the military in your family that love to use the military like it is your little game of chess.


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