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You could face some trouble in the fossil fuel department when your group of enemies grows significantly; but that can be solved through nuclear power and other developments (be it a financial burden stretched over several years). And Europe and the USA together could be completely...

I can't see that happening, Andy. The United States of America aren't just a bit more powerful than any other nation in the world; they are more powerful than the forces of the EU and the former USSR combined. There is no way a war in a relatively small nation such as Iran is going to cause the...

As for the UN; any intergovernmental organisation is only as powerful as the amount of power given to it by its member nation states. Europe keeps the UN alive to some degree as the former empires of France and the UK most notably see it as one of very few tools remaining for them to maintain...

I would never deny that the IRA keeps a religious division in place, however, without the religious aspect, their cause would still exist. Which I thought wasn't true for Osama Bin Laden, but if what you say is right then I guess he could be placed in roughly the same category as the IRA...

Well people like to disregard that. The masses like clarity and labels. Personally I grew up going to church every Sunday. A church community that would later throw me out; clearly having forgotten respect and an absence of judgement are fundamental to Christianity.

I would argue Bin Laden's motives are strongly religious and I base my opinion on what I know of that particular part of history. His strong involvement in the Soviet-Afghan war was frequently marked by religious statements indicating he saw it as a war of Muslims vs Atheists (the Soviet regime...

I used the children issue as an example. I could dissect the whole article, but I'm not going to. This is juventuz.com and nobody would pay much attention to it. Racism people seem to ignore? Indeed. The article was drenched in it, yet you hailed it..?

It's a ridiculous article. Europeans in the past didn't have families with ten children out of love; they had them because the more children they had, the bigger the guarantee was there would be somebody in the future to care for you when you got old. It was a pure selfish thing. Furthermore...

Well at least we made it 5 pages without someone bringing in Hitler...

ETA, the Balkan wars and even the IRA have little to do with religion. Religion might be an aspect those cases but was never the driving force. The IRA's main goal is the unification of the Irish island as I recall. ETA wishes to establish their own state and the Balkan wars were mostly about...

That is true. Also I'd like to remind people the majority of Muslims live in Indonesia, not the Middle-East so the generalisation Arab=Muslim or vice versa simply doesn't go. What's fascinating to witness is the different interpretations of Islam found in Indonesia. I wish I had the time to...