Arab Nations cuts ties with Qatar

dialamah · June 15, 2017

Let's sell them all the best and biggest guns .... Cause Muslim refugees and immigrants fleeing from the Middle East are so darn popular we need more of them!

eyeball · June 15, 2017

18 hours ago, OftenWrong said:

And when it all starts to come apart, who do they have to send in to fix it? Not a bleeding heart liberal. Someone with strength and fortitude.

Ah...you mean someone with principles - like a Shining Beacon for democracy, liberty and freedom or did you mean something else?

eyeball · June 15, 2017

4 hours ago, dialamah said:

Let's sell them all the best and biggest guns .... Cause Muslim refugees and immigrants fleeing from the Middle East are so darn popular we need more of them!

Well we might as well because if we don't someone else will.

Hudson Jones · June 15, 2017

On 6/13/2017 at 8:53 PM, OftenWrong said:

Good thing we're fighting them over there, so we don't need to fight them here, hey? Thanks to GWB for taking the initiative.

We weren't really fighting ISIS before. In fact, ISIS never existed until we (the barbarians) went into Iraq and created the perfect situation for them to come to be. So we created a fire and now, we are unsuccessfully trying to put it out.

Also, haha @ praising GWB. That's the icing on the cake.

DogOnPorch · June 15, 2017

5 minutes ago, Hudson Jones said:

We weren't really fighting ISIS before. In fact, ISIS never existed until we (the barbarians) went into Iraq and created the perfect situation for them to come to be. So we created a fire and now, we are unsuccessfully trying to put it out.

Also, haha @ praising GWB. That's the icing on the cake.

Might have to actually try putting it out. These aren't supermen.

OftenWrong · June 16, 2017

28 minutes ago, Hudson Jones said:

We weren't really fighting ISIS before. In fact, ISIS never existed until we (the barbarians) went into Iraq and created the perfect situation for them to come to be. So we created a fire and now, we are unsuccessfully trying to put it out.

There was no Islamic terror before Iraq. Sept 11 was our fault, for not genuflecting in submission appropriately before the Ayatollahs.

OftenWrong · June 16, 2017

7 hours ago, eyeball said:

Ah...you mean someone with principles - like a Shining Beacon for democracy, liberty and freedom or did you mean something else?

Someone with principles, yes. And the strength... THE STRENGTH... to do what needs to be done.

Omni · June 16, 2017

29 minutes ago, OftenWrong said:

There was no Islamic terror before Iraq. Sept 11 was our fault, for not genuflecting in submission appropriately before the Ayatollahs.

Sorry but you're not getting away with trying to glaze over the fact that has been pointed out that GWB and his illegal Iraq war begat ISIS. Terror begets terror in simpler terms.

DogOnPorch · June 16, 2017

1 minute ago, Omni said:

Sorry but you're not getting away with trying to glaze over the fact that has been pointed out that GWB and his illegal Iraq war begat ISIS. Terror begets terror in simpler terms.

D-Day led to ISIS by degrees of separation.

But, those that can recall Vietnamization see a direct correlation in leaving the green Iraqi Army alone to face a much more dedicated partisan army...and the rise of ISIS. Leaving before "Mission Accomplished" and all that.

Iraq was a blunder in many, many ways. But leaving was the greatest blunder after going. War is for results...politics by other means. A nation must fight to win...not show.

Omni · June 16, 2017

13 minutes ago, DogOnPorch said:

D-Day led to ISIS by degrees of separation.

So many degrees of separation as to be irrelevant.

14 minutes ago, DogOnPorch said:

the green Iraqi Army alone to face a much more dedicated partisan army.

Which army's are you talking about?

14 minutes ago, DogOnPorch said:

Iraq was a blunder in many, many ways

And one of the biggest ways was leaving a man in charge who fired all of the people who ran the country because they were Sunni. And then along came ISIS. get it?

OftenWrong · June 16, 2017

29 minutes ago, Omni said:

Sorry but you're not getting away with trying to glaze over the fact that has been pointed out that GWB and his illegal Iraq war begat ISIS. Terror begets terror in simpler terms.

What a revisionist view of history. ISIS was a product of the Obama administration, though t evolved from some other islamic terror group that was in Iraq before. There's all sorts of terrorists groups in the middle east, have been for a long time. Everyone there belongs to one group or another. Terrorism is just part and parcel of the region, and religion.

Omni · June 16, 2017

1 minute ago, OftenWrong said:

What a revisionist view of history. ISIS was a product of the Obama administration, though t evolved from some other islamic terror group that was in Iraq before. There's all sorts of terrorists groups in the middle east, have been for a long time. Everyone there belongs to one group or another. Terrorism is just part and parcel of the region, and religion.

There were terrorists, just not ISIS.

DogOnPorch · June 16, 2017

Just now, Omni said:

So many degrees of separation as to be irrelevant.

Which army's are you talking about?

And one of the biggest ways was leaving a man in charge who fired all of the people who ran the country because they were Sunni. And then along came ISIS. get it?

-History is never irrelevant.

-Everybody else. I see no distinction between men yelling Allahu Akbar, wearing face-masks and shooting AK-47s...all are "bad guys".

-Hindsight is 20-20. Von Clausewitz is studied...you less so. Wars are for winning...if one must be had. You can pretend they are for losing if you wish. France might agree.

Omni · June 16, 2017

1 minute ago, DogOnPorch said:

Wars are for winning...if one must be had

Well the US sure blew that one eh.

DogOnPorch · June 16, 2017

Just now, Omni said:

Well the US sure blew that one eh.

The US 'blew' a few since Korea.

As BC-2004 pointed-out, tactical thinking is the US's forte'. Not so much strategic thinking as the overall strategy changes with each new President.

Islam...now there's strategic thinking.

Omni · June 16, 2017

7 minutes ago, DogOnPorch said:

The US 'blew' a few since Korea.

As BC-2004 pointed-out, tactical thinking is the US's forte'. Not so much strategic thinking as the overall strategy changes with each new President.

Islam...now there's strategic thinking.

You're free to support Islam at your whim.

DogOnPorch · June 16, 2017

4 minutes ago, Omni said:

You're free to support Islam at your whim.

You'll be defending Islam's next terror attack.

Omni · June 16, 2017

2 minutes ago, DogOnPorch said:

You'll be defending Islam's next terror attack.

I'll leave that, and your daily Quran readings on your agenda. I have beer and baseball to attend to. The dems are winning bigly.

DogOnPorch · June 16, 2017

Just now, Omni said:

I'll leave that, and your daily Quran readings on your agenda. I have beer and baseball to attend to. The dems are winning bigly.

...and it's like The Dead Pool guessing where Islam will strike next.

Denver? Rome? Palermo? Viking Sea Cruises?

Any bets?

It is a wise idea to keep many transparent flags ready to go for your icons...

Omni · June 16, 2017

1 minute ago, DogOnPorch said:

...and it's like The Dead Pool guessing where Islam will strike next.

Denver? Rome? Palermo? Viking Sea Cruises?

Any bets?

It is a wise idea to keep many transparent flags ready to go for your icons...

Update: dems won 11-2. That's bigly. Trump will probably be ticked off... again!

eyeball · June 16, 2017

1 hour ago, OftenWrong said:

Someone with principles, yes. And the strength... THE STRENGTH... to do what needs to be done.

Well, I guess that pretty much rules out us and our allies.

I would have chosen folks like the Dalai Lama, Aung San Suu Kyi, Stephan Hawking...but then I should have stipulated I also meant intelligent people with the moral and ethical background it's going to require to really do what needs to be done, which mostly involves simply growing up.

DogOnPorch · June 16, 2017

1 minute ago, Omni said:

Update: dems won 11-2. That's bigly. Trump will probably be ticked off... again!

Palermo is kind of a safe bet...powder keg. But, a long-shot might be Tokyo...far fewer Islam problems.

OftenWrong · June 16, 2017

2 minutes ago, eyeball said:

Well, I guess that pretty much rules out us and our allies.

I would have chosen folks like the Dalai Lama, Aung San Suu Kyi, Stephan Hawking...but then I should have stipulated I also meant intelligent people with the moral and ethical background it's going to require to really do what needs to be done, which mostly involves simply growing up.

Us and our allies created the bastion of freedom that lets even the most vile scum criticize it. Try that in your native Islamabad.

eyeball · June 16, 2017

1 minute ago, OftenWrong said:

Us and our allies created the bastion of freedom that lets even the most vile scum criticize it.

Our creation rests on bastions of dictatorship we created.

Are you implying this represents a strong principled approach to resolving our issues with other people on this planet? You've got to be kidding.

OftenWrong · June 16, 2017

13 minutes ago, eyeball said:

Our creation rests on bastions of dictatorship we created.

Are you implying this represents a strong principled approach to resolving our issues with other people on this planet? You've got to be kidding.

Moderate dictatorships are fine, given they cannot understand how to live in peace even among themselves.

Tell you what- When those "other people on this planet" start applying the strong principled approach that you seek, we'll talk. But they won't do that, because they are too busy killing themselves even more than we kill them. Why is that you ask? Their feudal wars have lasted centuries, and are become part of their culture. They will never let that conflict go any more than they would let you go, unless the cultural memory is erased.

I recommend you do not go there seeking to make some kind of atonement for western sins. You will be simultaneously disemboweled and beheaded while their women and children cheer.