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Originally posted by AURaptor:
It's almost as if you display more disgust at what took place 100 years ago as you do what's happening TODAY.

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You must like being stampeded like a panicked cow.

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Radical Islam is less a threat to your life than being struck by lightening.

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It's not going to bring down the Western world's dominance - no, by mismanaging the economy we've done that to ourselves.

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Nor is it a threat to the survival of the planet - though you have no problem dismissing global warming and our current Great Extinction, which is.

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It's not the only horrific display of man's inhumanity to man, or the first. In terms of numbers and brutality, it's not the worst. Or the most widespread. It's not even the only one going on right now. It's not even the most 'evil'. And it won't be the last.

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That's a perspective based on reality. Which is distinctly different from yours, and yours resembles, more than anything else, a panicked stampeding cow.

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NO TIME TO THINK! NO TIME TO WONDER! NO TIME TO CHOOSE A RESPONSE. OR PICK A DIRECTION! RUN! RUN! RUN!

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
So if it doesn't affect me, I should pretend it's not happening & ignore the rapes, sex slaves, torture, genocide happening NOW, but curl up in the fetal position and shudder at what took place 100 + years ago...

Wow. Proggies sure do pick & choose their righteous indignation where it suits them.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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So if it doesn't affect me, I should pretend it's not happening & ignore the rapes, sex slaves, torture, genocide happening NOW, but curl up in the fetal position and shudder at what took place 100 + years ago...

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Wow. Reichwings sure do pick & choose their righteous indignation where it suits them.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Yes I know! You're SO CONCERNED about rape a torture that you're willing to kill 100,000+ to fix the situation!

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The one who is "picking and choosing" is you. I figure that killing people is killing people, it doesn't matter who's doing it and for what reason (except direct self defense). After that, it's just a question of looking at the numbers. In that sense radical Islam is not "the worst".

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Wow. Reichwings sure do pick & choose their righteous indignation where it suits them.
- Falsified it for ya.

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Landwings ? That makes no sense, what so ever.

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Yes I know! You're SO CONCERNED about rape a torture that you're willing to kill 100,000+ to fix the situation!-SIGNY

Nice imaginary number you grabbed out of the air, dimness.-RAPPY

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Scientific surveys of Iraqi deaths resulting from the first four years of the Iraq War found that between 151,000 to over one million Iraqis died as a result of conflict during this time.

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The so-called Islamic State has recently declared its official presence in war-torn Yemen. The jihadists posted a video online, threating to “cut the throats” of Shiite Houthi rebels.

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So, again- QUICK! Houthis versus Saudis/ISIS!
Who do we back???

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

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So, again- QUICK! Houthis versus Saudis/ISIS!
Who do we back???

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This is a real doozy for Obama. I mean, John Kerry has been wearing out his knee pads trying to appease the Iranians, but then Yemen has been Obama's GREAT success in the war on - someone , so this really is a pickle.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Well, it's only a pickle if you have the best interests of the USA population at heart. Not so much of a pickle if you're looking at the situation from a well-protected, handsomely-paid government/military sinecure, like being Scy of State or Scy of Defense. Then, quite frankly, you probably don't worry about radical Islam because it's never going to touch you personally.

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(Beirut) – Credible evidence indicates that the Saudi-led coalition used banned cluster munitions supplied by the United States in airstrikes against Houthi forces in Yemen, Human Rights Watch said today. Cluster munitions pose long-term dangers to civilians and are prohibited by a 2008 treaty adopted by 116 countries, though not Saudi Arabia, Yemen, or the United States.

Photographs, video, and other evidence have emerged since mid-April 2015 indicating that cluster munitions have been used during recent weeks in coalition airstrikes in Yemen’s northern Saada governorate, the traditional Houthi stronghold bordering Saudi Arabia. Human Rights Watch has established through analysis of satellite imagery that the weapons appeared to land on a cultivated plateau, within 600 meters of several dozen buildings in four to six village clusters.

“Saudi-led cluster munition airstrikes have been hitting areas near villages, putting local people in danger,” said Steve Goose, arms director at Human Rights Watch. “These weapons should never be used under any circumstances. Saudi Arabia and other coalition members – and the supplier, the US – are flouting the global standard that rejects cluster munitions because of their long-term threat to civilians.”

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Casting aside U.S. concerns about aiding extremist groups, Turkey and Saudi Arabia have converged on an aggressive new strategy to bring down Syrian President Bashar Assad. ....[which means, CONTINUING to aid Nusra, al Qaida, and ISIS ... yanno, like they've been doing all along!-SIGNY]

The two countries — one a democracy, the other a conservative kingdom — have for years been at odds over how to deal with Assad, their common enemy. But mutual frustration with what they consider American indecision has brought the two together in a strategic alliance that is driving recent rebel gains in northern Syria, and has helped strengthen a new coalition of anti-Assad insurgents, Turkish officials say.

That is provoking concern in the United States, which does not want rebel groups, including the al-Qaida linked Nusra Front, uniting to topple Assad. The Obama administration worries that the revived rebel alliance could potentially put a more dangerous radical Islamist regime in Assad's place, just as the U.S. is focused on bringing down the Islamic State group. A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issues, said the administration is concerned that the new alliance is helping Nusra gain territory in Syria.

The coordination between Turkey and Saudi Arabia reflects renewed urgency and impatience with the Obama administration's policy in the region. Saudi Arabia previously kept its distance and funding from some anti-Assad Islamist groups at Washington's urging, according to Turkish officials. Saudi Arabia and Turkey also differed about the role of the international Islamist group, the Muslim Brotherhood, in the Syrian opposition. Turkey supports the group, while the Saudi monarchy considers it a threat to its rule at home; that has translated into differences on the ground — until recently.

"The key is that the Saudis are no longer working against the opposition," a Turkish official said. He and other officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media.

Turkish officials say the Obama administration has disengaged from Syria as it focuses on rapprochement with Iran. While the U.S. administration is focused on degrading the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq, they say it has no coherent strategy for ending the rule of Assad, Iran's key ally in the region.

The new Turkish and Saudi push suggests that they view Assad as a bigger threat to the region than groups like Nusra. Turkish officials discount the possibility that Nusra will ever be in a position to hold sway over much of Syria.

Under Turkish and Saudi patronage, the rebel advance has undermined a sense that the Assad government is winning the civil war — and demonstrated how the new alliance can yield immediate results. The pact was sealed in early March when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan flew to Riyadh to meet Saudi's recently crowned King Salman. Relations had been tense between Erdogan and the late King Abdullah, in great part over Erdogan's support of the Muslim Brotherhood.

The Saudi shift appears to be part of broader proxy war against Iran that includes Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen against Iran-backed Houthi rebels. The new partnership adds Saudi money to Turkey's logistical support.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So, if you're REALLY worried about radical Islam, focus on Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So, if you're REALLY worried about radical Islam, focus on Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey.

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If Saudi Ariabis, Qatar, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, UAE, Yemen all wipe each other out, how is that a worry?

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So, if you're REALLY worried about radical Islam, focus on Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey.

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If Saudi Ariabis, Qatar, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, UAE, Yemen all wipe each other out, how is that a worry?

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Well for one thing, you can say goodbye to oil and gas from the region.

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For another, there is the problem of "blowback". And finally, I guess all of this weeping and wailing about the barbarity of radical Islam ... the beheadings the rapes, the tortures ...

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Oil and natural gas from the region ...SIGNY
Which we don't need, right? -JSF

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Bobo will need to find something else to celebrate - golf anyone? Only reasonable people and other conservatives will be off-put, and this you cherish, right?

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
JSF -Oh, and as for you REAL loyalties ... I doubt Israel would survive the conflagration.

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Oil and natural gas from the region ...SIGNY
Which we don't need, right? -JSF

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Wrong.

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Bobo will need to find something else to celebrate - golf anyone? Only reasonable people and other conservatives will be off-put, and this you cherish, right?

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I have no idea what this particular fantasy is about. You would feel a lot less dizzy if you kept at least ONE eye on the "real" world". Your fantasies are boring and stupid.

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