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__Bonk__  Posts: 5,122
Registered: 2009-7-25 03:04:52
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Desnoxvu posted:
__Bonk__ posted:
Whatever the reason however justified it seems at the time I am all for a major US foriegn policy shift which results in the US meddling less with teh internal affairs of foreign countries.
That is a good sentiment. Unfortunately it won't be the anti-war americans that stop the wars. It will be a collapse of America that ends our empire.
But there will still be just a few of us trying to get people to understand Austrian economics and Jesus's golden rule.
The AMerican empire is near collaspe. It just hasnt happened yet. First the money runs out. Then the empire falls.
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IMHO  Title: Official Outpost Greeter
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Registered: 2001-11-1 03:55:02
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Manegarm posted:
IMHO posted:
WHAT IF THEY WERE CHRISTIANS??
I don't see how that is relevant?
I know you don't.
That's why I started this thread. You do nothing but disparage Christians, yet a bonafide crazy Muslim wants a bomb and you think he is the next Mahatma Gandhi. 
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Taliesihne Title: Wind on the Deep Waters
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Wow, you are either very limber or in a lot of pain IMHO.
I wasn't aware the human mind could twist like that. 
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Phlegm573  Posts: 528
Registered: 2002-6-12 17:43:34
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I don't know how many times I see liberals who are self-professed "atheists" or "haters of all religions"...
... fall over themselves to defend asshole Islamic states/institutions like Iran or the Palestinians. If a Christian or Jewish state was even one-tenth as evil as either one of those groups, Manglow would be at the forefront here denouncing them.
Manglow, why are you so PC that you feel that you must defend Islamic extremists? Are you ok with what happened to your own city of Malmo?
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Desnoxvu  Posts: 363
Registered: 2002-3-21 11:48:50
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I am Buddhist. Want to see Irony? Well Buddhists believe in impermanence. Which means nothing last forever. I have spent time with Tibetan Monks who spent hours making sand mandelas and once they were finished they would destroy them into the breeze.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I6ikrF1qEE
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Manegarm Title: European Imperialist Good Guy
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Registered: 2003-8-11 10:01:52
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IMHO posted:
Manegarm posted:
You think for a second that the leaders of Iran are concerned about anything else then keeping their power?
Your whole post is fail.. You failed to grasp the simple truths of power and you utterly fail at understanding the Iranian culture.
Iran is a theocracy, but as they come it's pretty lenient.. It's a somewhat open society with a lot of western influences especially in Tehran, if their leaders were as insane as you suggest they would have murdered thousands during the latest demonstrations that that took place last summer, they would have also made Iran into a totally insular society shielding their country from any western influence if their leaders were as religiously insane as you suggest they would have done as the Taliban did with Afghanistan; outlawed music, forced all women to wear bhurkas etc etc, it's in no way a free society but it's not even near as closed as it could be.
So why isn't Iran as oppressive as Afghanistan was? Because the Iranian leadership is somewhat pragmatic they are ultra-conservatives brutal and cruel at times but in no way insane, within the Iranian parliament there are liberal forces at work, and there is some democratic freedom.
I have discussed Iran with a lot of Iranians, people whose families fled to Sweden during the 60's whom have visited and have family in Iran, I suggest you do the same IMHO..
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IMHO Title: Official Outpost Greeter
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Taliesihne posted:
Wow, you are either very limber or in a lot of pain IMHO.
I wasn't aware the human mind could twist like that.
How so?
...for pointing out how irrational Atheists are?
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Sea_of_inK Posts: 488
Registered: 2004-10-18 12:57:37
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Iran has existed two and a half milennia. Why would they end it all the second they got a weapon? Who starts a fight they know they'll lose miserably?
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Sin_of_Onin Posts: 1,307
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The real fear is that they will use it as leverage to do whatever they want.
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IMHO Title: Official Outpost Greeter
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Phlegm573 posted:
I don't know how many times I see liberals who are self-professed "atheists" or "haters of all religions"...
... fall over themselves to defend asshole Islamic states/institutions like Iran or the Palestinians. If a Christian or Jewish state was even one-tenth as evil as either one of those groups, Manglow would be at the forefront here denouncing them.
Manglow, why are you so PC that you feel that you must defend Islamic extremists? Are you ok with what happened to your own city of Malmo?
This
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