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  1. Argus

    Why should western soldiers fight and die to protect a people who refuse to fight to protect themselves?

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    2. Shady

      Shady

      Yes, the buck stops with everyone else but bumbling Biden.

    3. Argus

      Argus

      He's already said the buck tops with him - a phrase you never heard from Donald Diaperboy Trump during his entire time in office. Everything that went wrong was always someone else's fault and you still worshiped him.

    4. Shady

      Shady

      Ok.  I’m sure you’d make the same excuse if the same thing had happened if Trump was still president.  That’s why I’m still unsure as to what you guys were trying to blame him for?  Making the right decision?

  2. Argus
    Afghanistan is not a country. It's not a nation. Its people's loyalty are to their tribes and clans, not the 'country'. The government was irredeemably corrupt from top to bottom. It appointed incompetent crooks to run the military who stole the men's salaries and sold their equipment. Many of the soldiers hadn't been paid in months and struggled to find food since their officers tended to sell that whenever they could find a buyer. The people in charge of the military were political appointees, often with no experience, whose only interest in the job was what they could steal through it. No real confusion about why they collapsed. Why should they fight on behalf of that government and for those officers? Especially when the outcome was inevitable?
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    You set a pretty low bar, friend.
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    I'm guessing you took advantage of marihuana being legalized. Which of these people do you actually think ought to be described as 'very good'? And why?
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    https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/12/us/texas-covid-surge-hospital-staff-masks/index.html https://www.tpr.org/san-antonio/covid-19-tracker https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/delta-covid-variant-overwhelms-hospitals-across-texas-vqq0cmx3z
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    It's a pretty sad thing, and very unhealthy for democracy that we have an election in which the great majority of voters find ALL the candidates unattractive. The door is wide open for a populist to show up and claim power if he or she shows some determination and has a little charisma. In the meantime, Trudeau is spending half a billion taxpayer dollars on the hope he gets his majority back - even though the NDP has been his bitch throughout the brief minority period. Sheer ego combined with a total lack of concern for taxpayer funds.
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    It's really not as bad as the catastrophizers would have you believe. It also mentions climate upsides like the fact that more CO₂ in the atmosphere has acted as a fertilizer and created a profound global greening of the planet. One NASA study found that over a period of 35 years, climate change has added an area of green equivalent to two times the size of Australia. But don’t expect to read about this in any of the breathless articles on climate impact. ... Because of economic development, the UN estimates that the average person in the world will become 450 per cent as well-off by 2100 as they are today. But climate change will have a cost, in that adaptation and challenges become somewhat harder. Because of climate change, the average person in 2100 will “only” be 436 per cent as well off as today. This is not the apocalypse but a problem to which we should find smart fixes. https://financialpost.com/opinion/opinion-ipcc-global-warming-report-is-more-chill-than-you-have-read
  10. Argus

    I'm proposing we send Shady to Tennessee, where his people are and where he'll be much happier.

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    2. BubberMiley

      BubberMiley

      After they came to power in around 2017. They closed several hospitals. 

      So why are you making the conscious decision not to use them? Stupid or evil?

    3. Shady

      Shady

      So what?  Adults have the option to get completely vaccinated.  You still want other people to give up rights in order to subsidize the bad decisions of others.  

    4. BubberMiley

      BubberMiley

      Is it a bad decision to be under 12?

  11. Argus

    Afghan president flees country as Taliban enter Kabul. Well, that was fast.

    1. Shady

      Shady

      Heckuva job by your boy Biden! ??

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  12. Argus
    The Afghan government couldn't survive without Western troops because it never succeeded in establishing loyalty from the tribal and clan chiefs, and because its innate corruption and theft at every level also meant it never obtained any sense of loyalty from the soldiers who were expected to fight and die to preserve it. All the higher level officers were political appointees with little ability who stole everything they could. Small wonder none of their men would fight.
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    Canada to bring over 20,000 of the world's most rigid, backward, brutally misogynistic Muslims to live in Canadian cities. Welcome to Canada, guys. Try not to be too angry at the girls in shorts and all these gay people and Jews. I know you have no job skills and don't speak English, but the welfare office is over that way. Enjoy.

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    2. QuebecOverCanada

      QuebecOverCanada

      The 50% unemployment rate is from 2016. Real number is down by more than half which is better, not good as it stands at around 20%, but encouragin, as 80% of the refugees have had to ... learn to speak the language of Shakespeare or Molière when arriving here. Now 90% of Syrians speak English functionally.

      Plus, good news on civic integration;

      This sense of welcome has translated into new Syrian-Canadians reporting a strong sense of belonging both to Canada (90 per cent) and to local communities (84 per cent). 

      https://theconversation.com/syrian-refugees-in-canada-four-years-after-the-welcome-126312

  16. Argus
    While I certainly agree Trump's reign was disastrous for US power around the world the idea China is rebuilding infrastructure throughout Africa without strings is painfully naïve. https://www.theafricareport.com/81857/africas-debt-dance-with-china-in-creating-the-belt-road-initiative/
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    Since I don't accept your premise in the first place, I didn't have a lot of interest in your belief as to how we should absolve ourselves of our guilt.
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    HR McMaster was on the BBC this morning talking about the deal. He called it the 'capitulation deal' whereby the US surrendered and begged the Taliban to leave them alone. He also says the Afghani fight was easily manageable for the US, who only had about 7k troops there last year. He went on to say the war there was between civilization and barbarity, and that everyone had an interest in seeing the barbarians held back.
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    What I wonder is - how often does this happen? He wrote five apologies but evidently didn't grovel enough or retract his views. How many others, faced with expulsion, gave up and just told them what they wanted to hear? I am remembering that quasi-interrogation of Lyndsay Shepherd at Wilfred Laurier where she faced something like zealots from the cultural revolution questioning her motives and morality.
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    There's been a lot of scary scary headlines about the latest IPCC report on climate change. I think this puts things into better perspective. UN Secretary-General António Guterres called the findings a “code red for humanity” saying we can only avert catastrophe by acting in the next couple of months. Of course, the UN has a long history of claiming catastrophe is right around the corner: The first UN environment director claimed half a century ago that we had just ten years left, and the then-head of the IPCC insisted in 2007 that we had just five years left. In contrast to the hyperventilating media, the report is actually serious and sensible (and very, very long). It doesn’t surprise, since it is a summary of already published studies, but it reconfirms that global warming is indeed real and a problem. https://financialpost.com/opinion/opinion-ipcc-global-warming-report-is-more-chill-than-you-have-read Oh, and for the suspicious wondering about his background... Bjørn Lomborg (Danish: [ˈpjɶɐ̯ˀn ˈlɔmˌpɒˀ]; born 6 January 1965) is a Danish author and President of the think tank, Copenhagen Consensus Center. He is former director of the Danish government's Environmental Assessment Institute (EAI) in Copenhagen. He became internationally known for his best-selling and controversial book, The Skeptical Environmentalist (2001), in which he argues that many of the costly measures and actions adopted by scientists and policy makers to meet the challenges of global warming will ultimately have minimal impact on the world's rising temperature
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    From what I've read of Trump he doesn't know HOW to negotiate. His business life was one of bribery and blackmail. If he couldn't bully you or twist your arm in some way, like refusing to pay his bills unless you gave him a bigger discount, then he had nothing else left. Negotiation requires empathy, the ability to see the other side's point of view in order to guess how they would respond to a prospective deal. Trump is a sociopath and wouldn't have any such ability. Small wonder he couldn't negotiate with congress. He couldn't threaten or bribe them. That left him bewildered and sullen.
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    And the Republican Party would tell you that just eliminating Social Security would do the job even better and that's what they'd rather go with, thanks.
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    How do you take sides without saying you're taking sides? As always, the CBC shows the way! Erin O'Toole made an announcement today advising all Canadians to get a vaccine shot. Sounds reasonable. Can't have that! So the CBC, instead of simply reporting that, also adds in what some back bench Tory MP from nowhere Alberta said yesterday and plays them up both equally in order to give the breathless impression this is another example of how the Conservatives are 'tearing each other apart' as many of the Canadian media have been eagerly and excitedly reporting the last couple of weeks. In fact, they aren't even contradicting each other, and even Trudeau has expressed opposition to mandatory vaccinations for all Canadians. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/otoole-mandatory-vaccine-1.6137392
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    Typical 'vaccine hesitant' person is a 42-year-old Ontario woman who votes Liberal: Abacus polling.

    https://www.macleans.ca/society/typical-vaccine-hesitant-person-is-a-42-year-old-ontario-woman-who-votes-liberal-abacus-polling/

    1. OftenWrong

      OftenWrong

      Also known as a health care worker. Did you see that in your google search? Just cause I'm wondering, why so many health care workers are lumped into that group.

      Tell us Argus, why izzit?

  25. Argus

    Arnold Schwarzenegger has a message for Americans who argue that face masks encroach on their rights: "Screw your freedom."

    "Because with freedom comes obligations and responsibilities," the Republican former California governor said in a YouTube video released Wednesday. 

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    2. OftenWrong

      OftenWrong

      Boges is like those people who only give crap about themselves. 

      Otherwise it’s 

      “what, me worry?”

      ;) 

    3. Argus

      Argus

      Seems to me the whole argument of anti vaxxers and anti maskers is that they shouldn't be asked to care about anyone but themselves. And don't.

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