master mind in Afganistan... US sends troops to Iraq...
Gee maybe it's not about avenging 9/11 and it's more about preventing the next attack by introducing democracy into a region that has been unstable for the better part of the last century?
BTW, did you know that Aragorn's administration attacked Mordor when it was Saruman (from Isengard who was funded by middle earth and has ties with Gandalf) who attacked the castle at helms deep?
PS. They also sent troops to Afghnistan and in case you didn't notice, that country is on course to the 21st century.
Yes, we all know that locking your door is pointless. You need to stop the criminals at their source, not after they've walked into your house
Typical of slashdot to mod you up. How would you like to have to manually lock 20 thousand doors everytime you left your house?
So, you're saying that scanning containers is impossible, but somehow it is possible to find every single terrorist hiding spot
No. I'm saying that scanning *all* containers from now until the end of time is impossible and that destroying and keeping the terrorists and the reason they exist is a lot easier.
95% of shipping containers coming into this country aren't being inspected
John Kerry, is that you?
Are you insane? Do you know how many containers come into the country every day? It would be impossible to search for all of them and have a viable economy. What you need to do is to stop terrorists at their source not after they've gotten their goods into the harbours.
Since the start of the war (when saddam left power) there have been devestating bombings all over the world. remember Bali, Spain, and the hotel bombing in kenya.
Don't be patronising; I know what the crusades were. Crusade also means "A vigorous concerted movement for a cause or against an abuse" (ref. You can't seriously believe that that single statement from bush in 2001 proves that this is a christian war against muslims. Muslims in the US *still* have far greater freedoms than muslims in the middle-east! Bush has said over and over and over again that this is not a war against islam.
I guess yout think the Buddhists in Thailand are waging a holy war against innocent muslims too?
We've already had "witches", "heretics", "pagans", and "commies
How quickly we forget history. Terrorism actually dropped after 9/11
Where do you get your numbers? The Bali bombings occured after 9/11 but before the invasion of Iraq. I guess you think that it was just a minor blip? I wouldn't be suprised if the number of attacks have risen a bit since Iraq but that happens (hopefully temporarily) when you disturb the hornet's nest.
There is a direct corellation between # of world-wide attacks and our being bogged down by a small group in iraq.
Yep. Kindda like how there's a direct correleation between the number of terrorist attacks in the world and the number of security bulletins microsoft have released?
There were few reports[emph mine] of terrorism during that time
Or could it just be that these terrorist attacks have been going on for a long, long time (and they have) and the media is only reporting them now because it has become a US issue as well...? The conflicts in Thailand, Russia and indeed, all over the world, have been going on well before even 9/11. The terrorists are now in Iraq but it's not like they didn't exist before the invasion. I doubt that they were kindergarden teachers before 2003.
The number of terrorist attacks in Israel have dropped since the invasion of Iraq. Do you believe that there is a direct correlation there as well?
yes, the war in iraq has created an image that the US is on a war against muslims
And so logical, intelligent members of the muslim community suddenly turn into terrorists and blame......thai buddhists because the US is on a war against muslims?
If the US was on a war against muslims, why are they rebuilding a muslim country (Afghnistan)? Why aren't they just nuking everyone? They're on a war against fascim and terrorism. I suppose you think they're on a war against dark haired people too? Or maybe they're on a war against people with beards?
Objectively speaking you can definately say that the world was a better place with Saddam in power. Just in the last month there have been bombings in France, Egypt, indonesia, israel, palestine, and of course all over Iraq. That's just in one month. Since the start of the war (when saddam left power) there have been devestating bombings all over the world. remember Bali, Spain, and the hotel bombing in kenya.
The world is much worse off since Saddam has been removed from power no matter how you measure it.
Gee. Maybe it could have something to do with the rise of terrorism since 9-11. You think that muslims are beheading old men and woman in Thailand has to do with the war in Iraq?
Is that when you're fighting guerilla warfare, adding more technology doesn't work
I would have thought the oppisite. Unmanned drones and non-lethal weapons (to name a couple) are high technology will be of obvious help in a gueilla war.
OMFG I never would have thought of that! They want war all the time so they can sell more weapons! They are pure evil! More evil than satan! What amazing insight. I want to subscribe to your newsletter.
Technology is the least of our Middle East problems. Support for Israel may be the greatest cause of our problems.
Yes. How stupid are we to support the only liberal democracy in the middle east (iraq not withstanding). How stupid we are to support the only place in the middle east where both Jewish and Arab Muslim have citizenship and live together to reserach and produce amazing products and technologies. We should just allow Israel to be destroyed.
Personally, I wish manufacturers would pay more attention to power consumption of computers, as all that heat still has to be dissipated, even if it's not going to be an effective heater. I'd rather not have my PC whirring like a helicopter just to do some web browsing...
If all you want to do is web browsing, why not get a second mini-itx PC or small laptop?
There's no evidence that the US government has replaced anything. There has been an election in Afghanistan without the final results and there is still an absence of a traditional government.
LOL. As opposed to 3 years ago when the traditional taliban government was in place. How revealing of you.
G Dub has declared war on the UN. We are not friends with the world right now. I for one do not welcome my warmongering overlords. No one has a right to invade another country without going through the UN.
WTF? According to who? The UN are a bunch of corrupt non-democracies. I wonder when they're going to elect Sudan to the security council again.
I am more worried about North Korea and their very real WMDs than I am of the make-believe boogeyman Bush is conjuring up.
And if they liberated north korea you'd be complaining about how Iraq & Saddam were such bigger threats and you'd be describing on and on about the years of ignored resolutions and the corrupt oil for food program.
Ofcourse, Afghnistan was all about an oil pipe line and there weren't any boogeyman there.
Trust me, with all the oil being found in Russia and Russians being the new rich, it won't be long before we are at war with THEM.
The latter only occured when Japan directly attacked Pearl Harbour. Trivial, basic historical knowledge
Well duh. Noone ever said the US was being entirely altruistic. It took 9/11 for them to change Afghnistan and Iraq. Just because their action is Afghnistan and Iraq is in their interests doesn't make it against the interests of the countries in question.
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master mind in Afganistan
Gee maybe it's not about avenging 9/11 and it's more about preventing the next attack by introducing democracy into a region that has been unstable for the better part of the last century?
BTW, did you know that Aragorn's administration attacked Mordor when it was Saruman (from Isengard who was funded by middle earth and has ties with Gandalf) who attacked the castle at helms deep?
PS. They also sent troops to Afghnistan and in case you didn't notice, that country is on course to the 21st century.
Yes, we all know that locking your door is pointless. You need to stop the criminals at their source, not after they've walked into your house
Typical of slashdot to mod you up. How would you like to have to manually lock 20 thousand doors everytime you left your house?
So, you're saying that scanning containers is impossible, but somehow it is possible to find every single terrorist hiding spot
No. I'm saying that scanning *all* containers from now until the end of time is impossible and that destroying and keeping the terrorists and the reason they exist is a lot easier.
95% of shipping containers coming into this country aren't being inspected
John Kerry, is that you?
Are you insane? Do you know how many containers come into the country every day? It would be impossible to search for all of them and have a viable economy. What you need to do is to stop terrorists at their source not after they've gotten their goods into the harbours.
2 billion huh? That's an awful lot of money! Only about 100 times less than what George Shrubya Bush spent on the useless war against Iraq so far
he said 2 trillion you moron. how much universal healthcare can you buy for 2 billion?
and that he'll at least try to keep this promise
Would that be the promise for or the promise against?
The big difference between that conflict and the present one is a major player other than the US is in the region and has a whole lot of nukes.
Israel?
Since the start of the war (when saddam left power) there have been devestating bombings all over the world. remember Bali, Spain, and the hotel bombing in kenya.
Bali? Bali? That happened before the Iraq war.
Don't be patronising; I know what the crusades were. Crusade also means "A vigorous concerted movement for a cause or against an abuse" (ref. You can't seriously believe that that single statement from bush in 2001 proves that this is a christian war against muslims. Muslims in the US *still* have far greater freedoms than muslims in the middle-east! Bush has said over and over and over again that this is not a war against islam.
I guess yout think the Buddhists in Thailand are waging a holy war against innocent muslims too?
We've already had "witches", "heretics", "pagans", and "commies
You forgot infidels.
Palestine (due to incredible resistance of Jews, based mostly on Jews' sense of being "the Chosen Nation", so based on religion)
Dear Skinny Rav,
Liar!!
Yours Sincerely,
Yasser Arafat
How quickly we forget history. Terrorism actually dropped after 9/11
Where do you get your numbers? The Bali bombings occured after 9/11 but before the invasion of Iraq. I guess you think that it was just a minor blip? I wouldn't be suprised if the number of attacks have risen a bit since Iraq but that happens (hopefully temporarily) when you disturb the hornet's nest.
There is a direct corellation between # of world-wide attacks and our being bogged down by a small group in iraq.
Yep. Kindda like how there's a direct correleation between the number of terrorist attacks in the world and the number of security bulletins microsoft have released?
There were few reports[emph mine] of terrorism during that time
Or could it just be that these terrorist attacks have been going on for a long, long time (and they have) and the media is only reporting them now because it has become a US issue as well...? The conflicts in Thailand, Russia and indeed, all over the world, have been going on well before even 9/11. The terrorists are now in Iraq but it's not like they didn't exist before the invasion. I doubt that they were kindergarden teachers before 2003.
The number of terrorist attacks in Israel have dropped since the invasion of Iraq. Do you believe that there is a direct correlation there as well?
yes, the war in iraq has created an image that the US is on a war against muslims
And so logical, intelligent members of the muslim community suddenly turn into terrorists and blame......thai buddhists because the US is on a war against muslims?
If the US was on a war against muslims, why are they rebuilding a muslim country (Afghnistan)? Why aren't they just nuking everyone? They're on a war against fascim and terrorism. I suppose you think they're on a war against dark haired people too? Or maybe they're on a war against people with beards?
Objectively speaking you can definately say that the world was a better place with Saddam in power. Just in the last month there have been bombings in France, Egypt, indonesia, israel, palestine, and of course all over Iraq. That's just in one month. Since the start of the war (when saddam left power) there have been devestating bombings all over the world. remember Bali, Spain, and the hotel bombing in kenya.
The world is much worse off since Saddam has been removed from power no matter how you measure it.
Gee. Maybe it could have something to do with the rise of terrorism since 9-11. You think that muslims are beheading old men and woman in Thailand has to do with the war in Iraq?
Is that when you're fighting guerilla warfare, adding more technology doesn't work
I would have thought the oppisite. Unmanned drones and non-lethal weapons (to name a couple) are high technology will be of obvious help in a gueilla war.
OMFG I never would have thought of that! They want war all the time so they can sell more weapons! They are pure evil! More evil than satan! What amazing insight. I want to subscribe to your newsletter.
Technology is the least of our Middle East problems. Support for Israel may be the greatest cause of our problems.
Yes. How stupid are we to support the only liberal democracy in the middle east (iraq not withstanding). How stupid we are to support the only place in the middle east where both Jewish and Arab Muslim have citizenship and live together to reserach and produce amazing products and technologies. We should just allow Israel to be destroyed.
Grow a brain
Personally, I wish manufacturers would pay more attention to power consumption of computers, as all that heat still has to be dissipated, even if it's not going to be an effective heater. I'd rather not have my PC whirring like a helicopter just to do some web browsing...
If all you want to do is web browsing, why not get a second mini-itx PC or small laptop?
Hydrogen has a tendency to penetrate ANYTHING you try to store it in
Or you store it in a molecule like water.
Me too. Sounds like they had heaps of time to think of a way to down it without killing that 18 year old.
Yeah just like they destroyed the paradise that was Afghnistan.
Idiot.
Absolutely! Once again Afghanistan opium is flowing. Hurray for freedom!
I take it you don't think liberty is as important as opium control? (a simple yes or no will suffice).
Hmmm do you support the war on drugs then? From your comments, it looks like you've got a killer supply of them.
If so, they would invade most muslim countries and India and everywhere else women are oppressed
Would it make you happier if they did do that? It takes time to build nations you know. A couple at a time...
You don't think there are multiple reasons and one of them was woman being oppressed?
"Most muslim countries"? "India"? You're comparing them to TALIBAN CONTROLLED AFGHANISTAN?
What is wrong with you?
There's no evidence that the US government has replaced anything. There has been an election in Afghanistan without the final results and there is still an absence of a traditional government.
LOL. As opposed to 3 years ago when the traditional taliban government was in place. How revealing of you.
G Dub has declared war on the UN. We are not friends with the world right now. I for one do not welcome my warmongering overlords. No one has a right to invade another country without going through the UN.
WTF? According to who? The UN are a bunch of corrupt non-democracies. I wonder when they're going to elect Sudan to the security council again.
I am more worried about North Korea and their very real WMDs than I am of the make-believe boogeyman Bush is conjuring up.
And if they liberated north korea you'd be complaining about how Iraq & Saddam were such bigger threats and you'd be describing on and on about the years of ignored resolutions and the corrupt oil for food program.
Ofcourse, Afghnistan was all about an oil pipe line and there weren't any boogeyman there.
Trust me, with all the oil being found in Russia and Russians being the new rich, it won't be long before we are at war with THEM.
So go live there.
Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.
Oh; you quoted 1984. How intellectual of you.
The latter only occured when Japan directly attacked Pearl Harbour. Trivial, basic historical knowledge
Well duh. Noone ever said the US was being entirely altruistic. It took 9/11 for them to change Afghnistan and Iraq. Just because their action is Afghnistan and Iraq is in their interests doesn't make it against the interests of the countries in question.
Whoops, forgot the link.
Do you read?