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Terrorism is the new Red Scare. The Bush Administration is using it as a convenient excuse to transfer more and more power to the Executive Branch.

Despicable, really.

Sorry if I'm a little late in on this thread, but you don't seem to realize what Communism is. The Manifesto itself states that a brutal despot has to take power to force communism onto the land, and...

I just love it when people say soldiers in Iraq are "Defending their country."

It really couldn't be farther from the truth. We invaded a country that posed no threat to us--at all. We're not...

I'll certainly check it out. It appears to be very moddable, at any rate--so that's a plus.

I don't think I'd jump onto the "Bush Planned" it wagon so quickly... but I can't discount it. It's an evil administration, of that there ios no doubt. There is also no doubt that Bush totally...

A good laugh. The USA is not united and strong, you're right. But we're experts in forcing unity. Look at the Bush administration--easily a third of the country hates it, but society (not the...

Please.. why ask the questions if you already have your mind made up? Nationalism is a dangerous thing, especially when it breeds such self-imposed ignorance. Now, where to begin?




I'm no...

Hoo-boy.. where to start?

The USSR was doomed from the moment Lenin started the Cheka. By the time Stalin's reign was over, the government was full of yes-men who were so out of touch with their...

The successful examples you listed are examples of how occupation can succeed if the occupying force has no problem with absolutely terrorizing the populace into submission. There is no force in...

Occupation of a hostile state far away from home, with Guerilla Resistence, has never, to my knowledge, succeeded in modern history. The only possible exception being Japan after WWII, who happened...

The answer is, mostly, in the french mindset. The french, at the time, were hardcore warmongers, and they took pride in the fact that the allies won WWI. The Maginot Line was, to them, the absolute...

Well said. Although to be honest, the current failings in Iraq are due to leniency. If we simply started terrorizing the populace until the attacks stopped, we'd see a drastic reduction in...

Yeah.. uhm.. first off, no Nation in the World could even get past that defence, as it stands now. And second, the US is far larger and more populated than Iraq. A Guerilla war wouldn't be...

Misguided.. what an interesting phrase. Consider:

I don't follow the wordings of a book written over 2000 years ago.

You do.

I let modern circumstance and my own opinions influence what my...

Please.. stop.. the irony is killing me.

And that's exactly why I view the "Christian Lobby" as ignorant, megalomaniacal, and quite plainly: evil.

Fight all you want, but without an amendment to the constution you're fighting on grounds that many--myself included--would consider megalomaniacal, imposing, ignorant, and unethical.

I don't say no Church in Government.. the Constitution does ;) Sorry pal.

Need I paraphrase the constitution? "Congress shall not make any law respecting an establishment of religion."

If banning gay marriage on the premise that it offends christians isn't making a law...

Amen. The UN has proven to be incompetent and corrupt. I think we need to start from scratch.

Oh, the naming deal. That's so unimportant to me that I actually overlooked that that was the issue you had a problem with ;) Personally I don't think a marriage in the eyes of "god" should grant you...

Let's stop being ignorant here, and look at the consequences of what an Invasion of America would be. First, let's look at the known facts:

+Americans can easily obtain guns.
+Americans can...

The Majority of americans had no problem with discrimination against blacks before the Civil Rights Movement, now did they? Honestly, if there's one thing we all should have learned from that it is...

If someone tried to invade the US they'd have to deal with the 700,000 National Gaurdsmen *rolls eyes*

I'm fairly convinced that a good politician could get not only the media, but a large amount of the Mexican Immigrants who are here legally, to be on their side. It's just a matter of attitude, good...

If that's the case, why bother? Why should we have to deal with their **** anyway? I wish we could get a president in office who cared about this issue, because in my mind a failure on their part to...

I agree 99%. Some minor grievances, but not worth posting about. Well said.

I can't speak for other parts of the US, but here in Oregon we've got Illegal Immigrants working for some 15 cents a day in the agricultural business. The argument that "Nobody else will do it" never...

*looks around* I'm better at responding to arguments than starting them, but here we go:

Illegal Immigration is a crime. It's economic murder, and if I lived near the border I would probably be...

Says who? Where is proof of that argument, except in this wierd little philosphical tangent you and the other fellow seem to find so appealing? It's as baseless as alot of other arguments in this...

That is such a cowardly argument. I can't even put into words my disdain for an argument that attemtps to skirt around every rule of scientific debate. He can't be proven, so you must believe or you...

The guy is clearly bias. I don't put any more stock into something like that than I would into the Intelligent Design BS being spewed all over the place these days. I'll look up something to back...

Most archaeologist/historians will lean towards it being a small flood--but large considering that the biblical world was rather small. Many believe it was a sudden increase in size of the Black Sea...

The body begins decomposing almost immediately, however. Within a hundred years even your bones are beginning to fall apart. Burying you doesn't "leave the body intact", it just puts you under ground...

It's quite possible that the Exodus occured, actually. The obvious solution to the question is that, like most stories in the bible, it was blown far out of context. It could just have been that it...

As an amatuer historian, it is my opinion that most of the events in the Old Testement did happen, to some extent, but have been blown far out of proportion by the Bible either on accident or for...

Capitalism is sustainable. Absolutely, it is. Even the current "Globalized" exploitative form is sustainable, to an extent.

That said, I think the current trend of Globalization is proving to be...

This rather damages the idea of stability and efficiency on RTR though. From an outside perspective, it makes the mod look less-professional.

This is ludicrous. I was looking forward to 6.0 but now..? Not sure sure.

*cheers loudly for the looming failure of the EU*