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Goel
|  06 Sep '10 18:03 : 0 recs
It's okay: the Iraq war is back on again.
Meanwhile:
“The Frugal Superpower: America’s Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era” is actually the title of a very timely new book by my tutor and friend Michael Mandelbaum, the Johns Hopkins University foreign policy expert. “In 2008,” Mandelbaum notes, “all forms of government-supplied pensions and health care (including Medicaid) constituted about 4 percent of total American output.” At present rates, and with the baby boomers soon starting to draw on Social Security and Medicare, by 2050 “they will account for a full 18 percent of everything the United States produces.”
This — on top of all the costs of bailing ourselves out of this recession — “will fundamentally transform the public life of the United States and therefore the country’s foreign policy.” For the past seven decades, in both foreign affairs and domestic policy, our defining watchword was “more,” argues Mandelbaum. “The defining fact of foreign policy in the second decade of the 21st century and beyond will be ‘less.’ ”
...America is about to learn a very hard lesson: You can borrow your way to prosperity over the short run but not to geopolitical power over the long run. That requires a real and growing economic engine. And, for us, the short run is now over. There was a time when thinking seriously about American foreign policy did not require thinking seriously about economic policy. That time is also over.
An America in hock will have no hawks — or at least none that anyone will take seriously.
Superbroke, Superfrugal, Superpower?
The American empire is bust - where have you read that before?
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3dc
| 02 Sep '10 17:41 : 0 recs
Indoctrination Nation |
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George Sore Ass
| 01 Sep '10 11:36 : 0 recs
Goel
The US ends combat operations?
Apparently there are 50,000 US troops on holiday in Iraq then.
What a joke.
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Warren BuffetCar
| 01 Sep '10 11:22 : 0 recs : edited 1 time : last edit 01 Sep '10 11:37
Merlin,
the IRA did not bomb for the pope.
9/11 was for Islam.
I've no doubt that was the motivating factor of those who did it. But clearly the vast majority of muslims didn't support it. If most muslims were in favour of dying to kill westerners, I'd be dead already. But they aren't.
The IRA was Catholic, and the Loyalists were Protestant. So you can't separate them from the religion either (even if most Catholics wouldn't have supported their actions, that is no different to 911).
The Catholic church itself certainly has been involved in aiding and abetting child abuse. But they still have churches near schools and play grounds, and are even allowed to run sunday schools.
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Warren BuffetCar
| 01 Sep '10 11:19 : 0 recs
George,
I am curious as to what the appropriate exclusion zone around ground zero is? 2 blocks seems a tad arbitrary.
Any takers? Is 3 blocks ok? 5?
If 2 blocks is too close, then there must be some acceptable distance, so what is it?
I think there is a quite objective way to determine that.
Its whatever the Fox News Poll says.
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prudence
| 31 Aug '10 23:23 : 0 recs
9/11 was for Islam. (your words)
.... and now Islamists want to build a mosque near the site of the attacks.......... |
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Goel
| 31 Aug '10 22:10 : 0 recs
The Iraq War over?
Iraq's prime minister has said the country is "independent" as the US formally ends combat operations.
Nouri Maliki said the country's security forces would now deal with all threats, domestic or otherwise.
Iraq 'independent' as the US 'combat operation ends'
I'm not entirely convinced...
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Merlin
| 31 Aug '10 19:54 : 0 recs : edited 1 time : last edit 31 Aug '10 19:55
The answer to prudences question is that no catholic churches have been built near IRA bomb sites. A Christian one was rebuilt in the City.
But so what ?
the IRA did not bomb for the pope.
9/11 was for Islam. |
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prudence
| 31 Aug '10 11:12 : 0 recs
GSA ..... you are, of course, free to make yourself look silly but I have never said I supported the IRA.
Still when someone has to resort to strawman argument to make a point, it simply emphasises how untenable their position is.
Now which other poster does that remind me of.......... |
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George Sore Ass
| 31 Aug '10 10:15 : 0 recs
Let us not forget that while Britain was busy fighting the Nazis during WW2, the IRA were busy bombing Britain, and helping the Nazi cause.
Curious that Prudence is such a fan of the IRA, considering. |
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George Sore Ass
| 31 Aug '10 10:13 : 0 recs
We are talking about the bui;lding of a mosque at ground zero.
A short sentence and you managed two errors.
1) They are not talking about 'building a mosque'. No minarets, domes, etc. simply a place to pray in private.
2) It is not 'at' ground zero. It is two blocks away.
I am curious as to what the appropriate exclusion zone around ground zero is? 2 blocks seems a tad arbitrary.
Any takers? Is 3 blocks ok? 5?
If 2 blocks is too close, then there must be some acceptable distance, so what is it?
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prudence
| 30 Aug '10 12:09 : 0 recs
Weak and dishonest.>>
What rubbish!...........
Strawman arguments put up by you and others are just stupid.
We are talking about the bui;lding of a mosque at ground zero.
You have been trying to find parallel examples.
So far you have failed to do so.
Can't you raise your game................. |
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George Sore Ass
| 30 Aug '10 09:04 : 0 recs : edited 3 times : last edit 30 Aug '10 09:06
Prudence, let's certainly close down all catholic schools, and catholic churches within 2 blocks (which is now the de facto distance that religious offence can be emitted) of primary schools.
Aside from the obvious risk priests pose to children, it's just too early and the memories too recent. It is an insult to any parent to have the catholic church near places where children congregate.
The bottom line is that all catholics are part of the same evil religion, and every single one of them either kiddy fiddles, or supports kiddy fiddlers.
And where are Terry Wogan and Graham Norton on this? Aside from ignoring the IRA atrocities, they're unreasonably silent on child molestation too.
Hang em all.
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Merlin
| 29 Aug '10 22:52 : 0 recs : edited 1 time : last edit 29 Aug '10 22:52
Weak and dishonest. |
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prudence
| 29 Aug '10 20:44 : 0 recs
How many catholic churches have been built in London on or close to sites of IRA bomb attacks?............ |
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3dc
| 29 Aug '10 16:48 : 0 recs
I hate the media web site.... |
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George Sore Ass
| 29 Aug '10 10:41 : 0 recs
Prudence,
I propose that all catholic churches be expunged from London, as they insult the memory of those killed there at the hands of the IRA.
Reasonable?
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3dc
| 29 Aug '10 05:38 : 0 recs
Hate crimes against Muslims rare, FBI data shows |
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prudence
| 28 Aug '10 19:11 : 0 recs
Do you think muslims have a problem with American attacks on them ?
Which has what to do with whether or not a mosque should be at ground zero?........ |
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Merlin
| 28 Aug '10 15:15 : 0 recs
Prudence
Do you think muslims have a problem with American attacks on them ? |
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