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[QUOTE=CM]Just a point to note i do truly love it that western "intellectuals" define the conflict between Islam (religion) and western ideals (freedoms). Its such an uneven and biased comparision its amazing. These same people of course forget that western society is responsible for racism, slavery ...

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Also currently reading Crime & Punishment, although it will have to wait for me to cram some more academic stuff for my Cambridge interview[/QUOTE]

Oh, what are you applying to Cambridge for? I'm reading AJP Taylor's 'Origins of the Second World War', since I told Oxford that I ...

[QUOTE=Chanak]but a study of the outcome of WW1 will demonstrate how Germany was ripe for the facism which ushered in the Third Reich. Instead of helping Germany to recover, it was punished beyond reason (IMO). Perhaps if that was done, Hitler might not have had such leverage to use.

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Originally posted by fable
Judging from the last few days of hearings, I thought it was all about White House deniability, blaming the FBI and CIA, claiming the nation couldn't be successfully protected for another five years, but demanding more funds.

Well yeah, but that all comes down to the ...

So when do we get a result?

Originally posted by fable
@fable: What (if any) is the signifigance of the distincition between child soldiers and children who fight in wars?

Who was discussing that? I was answering RT's remark:



I was just wondering if the statistic you gave us applied to guerillas, or only soldiers ...

@Aegis: The convention was last updated in 1949, long after the era of 50m cannon.
I can't find anything about Hobbes' rules of engagement. Could you post a link which summarises them? I would have thought that Hobbes wouldn't be the kind of thinker to inspire someone like Dunant :confused:

In ...

Originally posted by pepsi
And my point is that any person in the white house would have done that. Be him Gore or Bush, it would have happened.

Which is almost entirely irrelevant.
The White House had a duty, which it failed to carry out. That, and only that, is what this is about.

I'm fairly sure I read it in the Economist, but I could be wrong. I'm going away for a while now, but when I get back see what I can find.
Even so, the rest of what I said still stands. The US know that they have to keep Sistani on side.

Re: Re: Plan of Action for Iraq

Originally posted by Tom2
I don’t believe that the current administration wants a democratic Iraq (nor do most Iraqi’s now). Sistani has sided with the USA up till now but when he backed democratic elections and the US didn’t neither side was very happy ...

What Aegis posted about child soldiers in the Fallujah thread was interesting. To quote:
Now, I personally don't find anything wrong if a man, woman, or child decides to pick up a weapon and fight, as long as they aren't simply meat shields, then there is a problem.

So, is it justified for ...

Re: Re: Oh, look, yet another place we can all discuss the evils of the US

Originally posted by Aegis
The Iraqi's who are fighting the Coalition forces are fighting for their Iraq


No they're not. They're fighting for Muqtada Al'Sadr, because US forces have an arrest warrant for him, in ...

I suspect one of us has misunderstood the other, @pepsi

I was implying that terrorism should have been given higher priority, and thus, that George w. is a failure, and Richard Clarke is not a 'douche'.

Originally posted by RandomThug
@Beo

I don't believe they treated it as a low priority, if you read the report it says that the FBI had a bunch of investigations going on at the time. If I was a man in charge of a large corporation and my security team told me they were on top of it I'd believe ...

Originally posted by pepsi


Nobody could even concieve of this type of terror attack happening to the US. I mean back then we thought 'We're the USA nobody messes with us. Nobody.'



Not at all. The US government was well aware that Al-Qaeda were planning to 'mess' with them. The experience of ...

Has the deadline passed yet?

Originally posted by maverick8088
If Evolution is a well established fact then where are the missing links? Surely you don't mean to show me the piltdown man? If it truly is "Survival of the Fittest" then why do we have Men and apes but no ape-men? Was there a mistake?


You're misunderstanding ...

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday Aegis :cool: :cool:

Remember, you are now a mature, responsible adult, and must mark the occasion by spending the day in a haze of inebriation and beautiful women - they're good for what ails you ;)

LOL.....Mah, everytime I get wrapped up in sheets I wind up with a lot of ...

Get 'The Ship Song' by Nick Cave.

But why do you not feel the Muppets are romantic?