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("R. Hubbell" wrote)
Looks like you're new to usenet. Don't get too worked up. I hope you don't plonk everyone you disagree with. But then again I guess that's the republican way. So little tolerance for opposing or alternate views. I don't have a horse, a donkey, or an elephant in this fight but...... It's my observation that a person will be labeled intolerant, unless they (whole-heartedly) swallow whatever "alternative" viewpoints the left is sponsoring. Big John, please consider *unplonking* David ...for the holidays g -- Montblack http://lumma.de/mt/archives/bart.gif |
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In your view, what were his REAL motives for ousting Saddam?
Probably large to one-up his father. A flippant -- and certainly not a very lucid -- answer. I find it hard to believe you don't have a better theory up your sleeve. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 05:12:41 GMT "Jay Honeck" wrote:
In your view, what were his REAL motives for ousting Saddam? Probably large to one-up his father. A flippant -- and certainly not a very lucid -- answer. I find it hard to believe you don't have a better theory up your sleeve. Not sure if the OP meant this or not. But yes he certainly is trying to clean up after his Dad's screw ups. Guess who took us to Somalia where we got our asses kicked. Dad Bush. Guess who sent help to the Somalians? That's a guy name Osama Bin Laden. Who put Saddam in power? Who was intrumental in getting Dubya elected? Dad Bush, ex-cia chief, ex-president. And father with lots of unfinished business. That's my boy! I guess the only thing Dubya has left to do is keep his food down on his next visit to Japan! R. Hubbell -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 22:41:29 -0600 "Montblack" wrote:
("R. Hubbell" wrote) Looks like you're new to usenet. Don't get too worked up. I hope you don't plonk everyone you disagree with. But then again I guess that's the republican way. So little tolerance for opposing or alternate views. I don't have a horse, a donkey, or an elephant in this fight but...... You can't expect us to believe that! It's my observation that a person will be labeled intolerant, unless they (whole-heartedly) swallow whatever "alternative" viewpoints the left is sponsoring. No "swallowing" involved as you can see from the definition for tolerance: "sympathy or indulgence for beliefs or practices differing from or conflicting with one's own" It's another step toward enlightenment to understand opposition. Big John, please consider *unplonking* David ...for the holidays g Now that's a good idea! This is supposed to be a place for discourse. A little decorum would do us all good, if only for the holidays. Make better humans of us all. Maybe even throw in a dash of humility to round things out. R. Hubbell -- Montblack http://lumma.de/mt/archives/bart.gif |
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It's all about China folks. If you don't think so, just wait a few more
years...you'll see. chinese teenage population outnumbers the total population of the USA. Well, calculate what will happen in 1 or 2 generations. Sony must be salivating, with THAT kind of market for their Playstation games... -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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In article , Martin Hotze
writes: "Montblack" wrote: It's all about China folks. If you don't think so, just wait a few more years...you'll see. chinese teenage population outnumbers the total population of the USA. Well, calculate what will happen in 1 or 2 generations. We probably would have been better off leaving them as communists. Teaching them capitalism takes the hobbles off. -- Wm. Donald (Don) Tabor Jr., DDS PP-ASEL Chesapeake, VA - CPK, PVG |
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In article 5_Ozb.422240$HS4.3350892@attbi_s01, "Jay Honeck"
writes: In your view, what were his REAL motives for ousting Saddam? -- They're not going to like it, but the real motive was to change the character of the middle east and make it a less volitile place, while killing as few people in the process as possible. The alternative would have been to pascify the place by killing a LOT of Moslems. Leaving as it was, and putting up with terrorism forever, as Europe seems willing to do, was not an acceptable option. -- Wm. Donald (Don) Tabor Jr., DDS PP-ASEL Chesapeake, VA - CPK, PVG |
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"Wdtabor" wrote in message
... In article 5_Ozb.422240$HS4.3350892@attbi_s01, "Jay Honeck" writes: In your view, what were his REAL motives for ousting Saddam? -- They're not going to like it, but the real motive was to change the character of the middle east and make it a less volitile place, while killing as few people in the process as possible. Yet when Saddam was at the height of his military strength and at the height of his terrorist atrocities, the US *supported* him on the grounds that his regime was a *stabilizing* influence. Leaving as it was, and putting up with terrorism forever, as Europe seems willing to do, was not an acceptable option. As the CIA pointed out, invading Iraq will likely increase, not decrease, our vulnerability to terrorist attacks. --Gary |
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In article Tn1Ab.32648$_M.137701@attbi_s54, "Gary L. Drescher"
writes: Leaving as it was, and putting up with terrorism forever, as Europe seems willing to do, was not an acceptable option. As the CIA pointed out, invading Iraq will likely increase, not decrease, our vulnerability to terrorist attacks. That would be the same CIA that has been totally wrong about terrorist intentions for the last 20 years? -- Wm. Donald (Don) Tabor Jr., DDS PP-ASEL Chesapeake, VA - CPK, PVG |
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"Martin Hotze" wrote in message ... | | | Well, socialism by its _ideals_ is not that bad, the idea itself is good. | Socialism is nothing but organized banditry. It is a terrible concept. | Unfortunately, the Europeans | cannot be entrusted to not hurl nuclear weapons at each other, so the | presence of our troops will be necessary for a long time to come. | | and you still want to have some of the European countries share your ideas | within NATO? Or: if this is your mindset, than you have a really bad mindset. | | | 3 questions: | do you have a passport? | can you point at Europe on a globe? | have you ever been outside of your county/state/USA? | Yes to all three, if it is any of your business. The express purpose of NATO is to keep Europeans from indulging in their penchant for slaughtering one another by ensuring that an attack on one is deemed an attack on all. Despite this, most of the NATO members have consistently refused to honor their NATO commitments, including their obligations incurred by the last attacks by terrorist groups. Italy, for example, still protects terrorists that are wanted in Turkey. NATO would not function at all without the presence of US peacekeeping troops to keep a lid on things. The United States in many ways served the same function in keeping the peace in western Europe as the Soviet Union did in the east. Now that Russia is no longer able to fulfill its obligations there, the US has had to intervene in much of eastern Europe as well, even in some of the former Soviet republics. Your comments about America's "youth" and your unfounded assumptions of my own lack of exposure to European culture reflect the typical European ignorance of American history and culture that I previously condemned. America is not 200 years old; it is a blend of cultures at least as old as anything Europe has to offer. The United States as a national political entity is older than Germany, Poland, and several other European nations. Great Britain might reasonably claim to be older than the United States, but the other European countries are little older than WW II, built on the ashes of earlier entities that have little in common in either boundaries or culture other than name. Even allowing that post-war France is somewhat the same country is pre-war France and giving the French some claim to being an older country, most other European nations did not come into existence before Napoleon. Before that, most of Europe was nothing but a collection of tiny feudal estates ruled by petty overlords whose chief form of recreation seems to have been burning down other feudal estates. But let us not forget Spain and Portugal, who might really have legitimate claims to being old. Oh, too late, the rest of Europe did forget about them and continues to ignore them to this day. I dare say that those two countries find far more respect in America than they do anywhere in Europe. You would do well to remember why the Europeans who came to America did so in the first place, and the heritage they brought with them. Even if European culture really was older than that of the US, you fail to demonstrate how it is somehow 'better.' Little enough of that ancient European culture remains -- mostly reverently preserved in museums. France of 2003, for example, has almost nothing in common with the empire of Charlemagne. The language, people, customs, architecture, art, music, political institutions, and everything else in modern Europe would probably be completely unrecognizable and horrify the benighted barbarians you so proudly claim as your heritage. Only the violence remains. The modern European has nothing more to do with castles and Stonehenge than the modern American has to do with Chichen Itza or ancient cliff dwellers of the southwest. You want to rest on the laurels of the long vanished tribes of 1000 years ago, go right ahead. And don't even get me started on the supposedly ancient nations of Asia and Africa. |
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