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1855 posts, Jae, and you're still haven't figured out Vinman? If you were brand new here that would be a different story, but...

Please don't make the throw my name into the mod conscription ring. These days that seems akin to signing up for the Iraqi police. But I'll take on a few tossed molotovs if that's what it means to not have to wade through personal insults all the time in this forum.

I don't care if you're Jewish or Palestinian. Anybody who thinks they have a birthright over generations to claim rights to a plot of land is a complete retard. I mean, where do you draw the line? Should France be turned over to people claiming to be direct descendents of the Gauls? Iraq to...

For some comic relief on this heavy topic... One of my favorite stories from a former British coworker was when he first came to work in California about 15 years ago. Walking into a bank to open an account, he encountered a sign that said, "Open your IRA accounts here!" His reaction was one...

The truth is they don't. Most Americans haven't set foot outside of the U.S. before. I think I saw some statistic once that showed that only 1/3 of Americans have ever been issued a passport. Not surprisingly, there's a lot of xenophobia in this country. Perhaps not quite as intense as, say...

In old Christian theology, this is essentially one of the four horsemen of the Apolcalypse: "false religion", or perverting the power of religion and leveraging that for personal or other selfish gain through mass public deception.

Yeah. Osama is kind of pointless these days. He's just a figurehead now. These cells don't really need him, so taking Osama out is more about past deeds than anything about the future. This is basically like a cancer of modern civilization. But over the course of history I truly believe this...

:howler: Kaiser Franco, you're on fire with the quotes lately! "That's soooo last jihad."

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There have always been people who have respect, and are worthy of respect -- and people who don't have it nor deserve it. Some people admire Michelangelo's David while others would be the first to smash its arm off. Some people respectfully observe the giant coastal redwoods up the coast from...

But it's not. It's no more inevitable than me taking a knife to the eyeball of my boss at work. It's not like people don't have a choice and have no free will in the matter. Everyone asks "why" after a murder of a child, or the murder of some nice old guy who lived up the street. Sometimes...

Didn't say you're a fanatic per se. Just that you haven't got a clue - as evidenced by equating the actions of UK troops in Iraq with lunatics blowing up London commuters as a target. So what you seem to be saying is this: 1) Today's bombings were the work of pissed off Iraqis :confused...

There's definitely a big difference. This is a real war -- not the "war on drugs" or "war on poverty" garbage. A real war. Without the traditional national boundaries, but then civil wars are like that all the time. If Dian's right in equating the UK military actions in Iraq to terrorist...