No, the invasion wasn't idiotic. Germany thought they could defeat France, bomb the UK into submission, then turn the entire German military east and defeat the Soviets. And the all most did. Moscow was the city to far, just like Market Garden in '44, Moscow was just a little ways too far away. Then the snows and winter came, and the Soviet spies in Japan found out the Japanese wouldn't attack, so that freed up resources.
Germany couldn't have invaded the UK, they didn't have the sealift that was needed, Sealion was just a plan, it never got past that stage. Had Germany thrown all the resources they used on Russia against the UK with aviation and naval power, they probably have made a peace or could have gotten the UK to ally against a Soviet Union that would have dominated Finland and looked south towards Persia and British India further on in the 1940s.
He could if he wanted to. He is behind the appointment of the department heads and he has that whole Executive Order power. He ran on making those changes quickly and he hasn't done a darned thing. Well, strike that, he has pissed of Israel and disappointed the Palestinian Authority, pissed off Poland and told Eastern Europe that we won't lift a hand to defend them against Russia.
I know about China's civil rights, they are after all a Communist country. But does that make the nation uncivilized?
I don't think we can paint them with that brush.
In a multi-cultural world, we can't say that a nation has to be a republic or democracy to be "civilized". Yes, China is authoritarian, but that doesn't remove their culture or civilization.
Most of the nations on that list do have elections, usually free elections, although there are times when things aren't as free as one would hope, like Iran and Afghanistan this year. On that list, the only surprise for me was Saint Kitts and Nevis.
The United States, Japan and the People's Republic are "civilized" right? Those three countries have "institutionalised murder a.k. as capital punishment."
Or are over 1.7 billion people uncivilized because of capital punishment?
Really? The Nazis weren't anti-intellectuals? During the period "intellectual" meant Jewish or Bolshevik, look at the brain drain from Germany in the 20s and 30s to France, the US, UK.
Lew Rockwell is no better than Beck. Did you read the post you link to?
"Tonight, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow had a sickeningly sycophantic interview with war criminal Madeline Albright about her new book on the creepy pins she wears. Is Albright a witch, or does she just look like one? One of her pins is a poisonous serpent. Ha ha ha."
That place is a nest of Pro-Confederacy, anti-Jewish and OMG fascism lunatics. I think I started surfing it in 2000, then after 9-11 the crazy really kicked in there.
No, he is an entertainer, there is a bigger market pandering to the right on Fox than there is pandering to the left on CNN/MSNBC/etc because the market is saturated with left leaning commentators and entertainers.
Now he is an adherent to Mormonism through conversion after a rough patch, so yea, as many newly converted are, he is extra hyper about his religion and whatever world view he has now.
I'm a moderate Conservative and personally he and Limbaugh disgust me.
Its not just a US thing. Being too intellectual has been a focus or slander alot of places in the last 120 years. Vietnam during the war, Cambodia, Germany from before the First World War until the end of the Second, Pre and post Revolution Russia, post Revolution China.
And in the US its not just been the Right, in the 60s the Left was against business and intellectuals like McNamara. Anti-intellectualism seems to have started in the US in the 17th century and in Europe with Cato the Elder.
Go back farther and there have been anti-intellectual movements into the Classical period.
Better long term solution, change DUI to Driving While Distracted and if a cop sees you on the phone or computer while driving, hits you with the same fines and jail time as a intoxicated driver.
Why would removing a defensive system make the Russians feel safer? The BMD can't deal with a saturated strike like the Russians are capable of delivering, it wasn't going to be part of a integrated air defense network, if the Russians wanted to take out Eastern Europe, they could have cruise missiles the BMD sits from the Tu-22 and Tu-26, then struck Poland and whomever.
Same goes for the US parts of it, they are good for small arsenals (DPRK, Iran), OK for medium arsenals (PRC) and poor for large arsenals (Russia, France, UK). So why exactly is a defensive system a bad thing?
As for Russian short-range nuclear missile deployment, well they still have a truck load of ICBMs and air launched cruise missiles than can hit any "Old" European capital in 15 minutes.
Did he apologize for entering World War Two and oppressing the German, Italian and Japanese people? For bombing France, the Low Countries, Eastern Europe and North Africa?
Did he apologize for Operation Crossroads? MKULTRA? Cause those all need to go up on his teleprompter.
Hoover was 4, FDR was 12, then the Constitution changed. Truman was 7, Ike was 8, JFK was 2.5, LBJ was 5, Nixon was 5, Ford was 2.5, Carter was 4, Reagan was 8, H.W Bush was 4, Clinton was 8, W was 8.
Actually, chemical weapons were found in Iraq following OIF, which is a WMD and a violation of the cease fire of 1991 and all the UN resolutions that followed, but hey, don't let facts stand in in the way of your rant.
Bush wasn't up for election in 2008, the news, might want to pay attention to it over the near 2 years that people ran for the nomination in the US.
Actually, the gear the US sent Israel in the '73 war was a big help. Over 55,000 tons of munitions and equipment, Maverick and TOW missiles as well as ECM pods made a huge difference during the course of the war.
The US used the atomic weapons on Japan, not to show off and not to "kill millions of people", but to force the Empire of Japan to surrender before the invasion of Japan was needed.
Yes the two bombings killed over 200,000 people, but it ended the war, saved hundreds of thousands more from bombing, starving, massacre and further conflict.
Had the US/UK invaded Japan in the fall of '45 and/or spring of '46 hundreds of thousands of Allies would have been killed and wounded, more than a million Japanese soldiers would have died and millions of Japanese civilians would have died.
I know Rio is, I post about it up in the thread. The difference is, does the violence in Rio make the "big news"? Nope it does not, but on CNN its up on the main page.
Go to news.bbc and search - chicago then rio and see on the first page of searches which seems more violent, Chicago has dog fighting, Rio has nothing about the constant killings.
The murder rate in Rio is over double that of Chicago right now.
Russia got the 2014 Olympics and its been at war on terror and separatism longer than the US has been at war. The United Kingdom got the 2012 Olympics and its been at war just as long as the US and yea there is crime there too.
In the state Rio is in, there are three times more police killings of civilians a year than in the entire United States.
Chicago, along with other major US cities, experienced a significant reduction in violent crime rates through the 1990s, eventually recording 448 homicides in 2004, the lowest total since 1965 (15.65 per 100,000.) Chicago's homicide tally remained steady throughout 2005, 2006, and 2007 with 449, 452, and 435 respectively.
And I'd bet you crime statistics are better reported in Chicago than Rio.
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No, the invasion wasn't idiotic. Germany thought they could defeat France, bomb the UK into submission, then turn the entire German military east and defeat the Soviets. And the all most did. Moscow was the city to far, just like Market Garden in '44, Moscow was just a little ways too far away. Then the snows and winter came, and the Soviet spies in Japan found out the Japanese wouldn't attack, so that freed up resources.
Germany couldn't have invaded the UK, they didn't have the sealift that was needed, Sealion was just a plan, it never got past that stage. Had Germany thrown all the resources they used on Russia against the UK with aviation and naval power, they probably have made a peace or could have gotten the UK to ally against a Soviet Union that would have dominated Finland and looked south towards Persia and British India further on in the 1940s.
He could if he wanted to. He is behind the appointment of the department heads and he has that whole Executive Order power. He ran on making those changes quickly and he hasn't done a darned thing. Well, strike that, he has pissed of Israel and disappointed the Palestinian Authority, pissed off Poland and told Eastern Europe that we won't lift a hand to defend them against Russia.
So he has done somethings.
I know about China's civil rights, they are after all a Communist country. But does that make the nation uncivilized?
I don't think we can paint them with that brush.
In a multi-cultural world, we can't say that a nation has to be a republic or democracy to be "civilized". Yes, China is authoritarian, but that doesn't remove their culture or civilization.
Most of the nations on that list do have elections, usually free elections, although there are times when things aren't as free as one would hope, like Iran and Afghanistan this year. On that list, the only surprise for me was Saint Kitts and Nevis.
The United States, Japan and the People's Republic are "civilized" right? Those three countries have "institutionalised murder a.k. as capital punishment."
Or are over 1.7 billion people uncivilized because of capital punishment?
Has there been hyperinflation yet?
No, if anything there has been deflation. Zim's monetary policies lead to hyperinflation very quickly.
So when hyper, or heck, regular, 1970s style inflation kicks in, I'll be worried.
Really? The Nazis weren't anti-intellectuals? During the period "intellectual" meant Jewish or Bolshevik, look at the brain drain from Germany in the 20s and 30s to France, the US, UK.
Lew Rockwell is no better than Beck. Did you read the post you link to?
"Tonight, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow had a sickeningly sycophantic interview with war criminal Madeline Albright about her new book on the creepy pins she wears. Is Albright a witch, or does she just look like one? One of her pins is a poisonous serpent. Ha ha ha."
That place is a nest of Pro-Confederacy, anti-Jewish and OMG fascism lunatics. I think I started surfing it in 2000, then after 9-11 the crazy really kicked in there.
The US doesn't have enough odd fetish prostitutes to be the Weimar Republic, and no hyper inflation.
No, he is an entertainer, there is a bigger market pandering to the right on Fox than there is pandering to the left on CNN/MSNBC/etc because the market is saturated with left leaning commentators and entertainers.
Now he is an adherent to Mormonism through conversion after a rough patch, so yea, as many newly converted are, he is extra hyper about his religion and whatever world view he has now.
I'm a moderate Conservative and personally he and Limbaugh disgust me.
Its not just a US thing. Being too intellectual has been a focus or slander alot of places in the last 120 years. Vietnam during the war, Cambodia, Germany from before the First World War until the end of the Second, Pre and post Revolution Russia, post Revolution China.
And in the US its not just been the Right, in the 60s the Left was against business and intellectuals like McNamara. Anti-intellectualism seems to have started in the US in the 17th century and in Europe with Cato the Elder.
Go back farther and there have been anti-intellectual movements into the Classical period.
There are people who can drink and drive all safely too, do they get a test and permit too?
Better long term solution, change DUI to Driving While Distracted and if a cop sees you on the phone or computer while driving, hits you with the same fines and jail time as a intoxicated driver.
Clinton tried to pull that with the CTBT after the Senate didn't ratify it, they told him he couldn't do that.
This sort of thing is generally attacked by the eco movements, so I wonder what their reply will be?
The Russians have ABM systems already, so the deployment of an ABM system in Europe is not a threat or a posture to towards them.
Why would removing a defensive system make the Russians feel safer? The BMD can't deal with a saturated strike like the Russians are capable of delivering, it wasn't going to be part of a integrated air defense network, if the Russians wanted to take out Eastern Europe, they could have cruise missiles the BMD sits from the Tu-22 and Tu-26, then struck Poland and whomever.
Same goes for the US parts of it, they are good for small arsenals (DPRK, Iran), OK for medium arsenals (PRC) and poor for large arsenals (Russia, France, UK). So why exactly is a defensive system a bad thing?
As for Russian short-range nuclear missile deployment, well they still have a truck load of ICBMs and air launched cruise missiles than can hit any "Old" European capital in 15 minutes.
They should have given it to the Iranian protestors.
Did he apologize for entering World War Two and oppressing the German, Italian and Japanese people? For bombing France, the Low Countries, Eastern Europe and North Africa?
Did he apologize for Operation Crossroads? MKULTRA? Cause those all need to go up on his teleprompter.
8 years and occasionally 12?
Hoover was 4, FDR was 12, then the Constitution changed. Truman was 7, Ike was 8, JFK was 2.5, LBJ was 5, Nixon was 5, Ford was 2.5, Carter was 4, Reagan was 8, H.W Bush was 4, Clinton was 8, W was 8.
They are elected in 4 year blocks.
Actually, chemical weapons were found in Iraq following OIF, which is a WMD and a violation of the cease fire of 1991 and all the UN resolutions that followed, but hey, don't let facts stand in in the way of your rant.
Bush wasn't up for election in 2008, the news, might want to pay attention to it over the near 2 years that people ran for the nomination in the US.
Actually, the gear the US sent Israel in the '73 war was a big help. Over 55,000 tons of munitions and equipment, Maverick and TOW missiles as well as ECM pods made a huge difference during the course of the war.
The US used the atomic weapons on Japan, not to show off and not to "kill millions of people", but to force the Empire of Japan to surrender before the invasion of Japan was needed.
Yes the two bombings killed over 200,000 people, but it ended the war, saved hundreds of thousands more from bombing, starving, massacre and further conflict.
Had the US/UK invaded Japan in the fall of '45 and/or spring of '46 hundreds of thousands of Allies would have been killed and wounded, more than a million Japanese soldiers would have died and millions of Japanese civilians would have died.
Nope, was just on tourist visa for Egypt and Austria, was on a work visa in Israel
I know Rio is, I post about it up in the thread. The difference is, does the violence in Rio make the "big news"? Nope it does not, but on CNN its up on the main page.
Go to news.bbc and search - chicago then rio and see on the first page of searches which seems more violent, Chicago has dog fighting, Rio has nothing about the constant killings.
The murder rate in Rio is over double that of Chicago right now.
Russia got the 2014 Olympics and its been at war on terror and separatism longer than the US has been at war. The United Kingdom got the 2012 Olympics and its been at war just as long as the US and yea there is crime there too.
In the state Rio is in, there are three times more police killings of civilians a year than in the entire United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_de_Janeiro#Social_conditions
In 2006, 2,273 people were murdered in the city giving it a murder rate of 37.7 cases for every 100,000 people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago#Crime
Chicago, along with other major US cities, experienced a significant reduction in violent crime rates through the 1990s, eventually recording 448 homicides in 2004, the lowest total since 1965 (15.65 per 100,000.) Chicago's homicide tally remained steady throughout 2005, 2006, and 2007 with 449, 452, and 435 respectively.
And I'd bet you crime statistics are better reported in Chicago than Rio.