Gunny
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pfft. I have the answer keys to standardized tests.
Damn ...given out too much rep. I owe you one.
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pfft. I have the answer keys to standardized tests.
Not to use digression in the pejorative sense, but we have certainly digressed-
I would add my thoughts on the Iran matter but GunnyL seems to have spoken the majority of what was in my head (so I tip my hat, sir).
However I was perusing Commentary Magazine and stumbled across a remarkably well-constructed, eloquent analysis and recommendation for how to deal with the amorphous-but-certainly-still-volatile nation that is Iran.
I think we can agree on the incompetence of Amedenijhad and I would love to hear any arguments in favor of his remaining in office because I'm in need of a good laugh.
First post, so I can only give you text, but here's a text link:
w ww.commentarymagazine.com/cm/main/viewArticle.html?id=10882
Some choice quotes for those too lazy to read:
"The military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq cannot be understood if they are regarded as self-contained wars in their own right. Instead we have to see them as fronts or theaters that have been opened up in the early stages of a protracted global struggle. The same thing is true of Iran. As the currently main center of the Islamofascist ideology against which we have been fighting since 9/11, and as (according to the State Departments latest annual report on the subject) the main sponsor of the terrorism that is Islamofascisms weapon of choice, Iran too is a front in World War IV."
"I call this new war World War IV, because I also believe that what is generally known as the cold war was actually World War III, and that this one bears a closer resemblance to that great conflict than it does to World War II. Like the cold war, as the military historian Eliot Cohen was the first to recognize, the one we are now in has ideological roots, pitting us against Islamofascism, yet another mutation of the totalitarian disease we defeated first in the shape of Nazism and fascism and then in the shape of Communism..."
Intriguing, am I right?
-Xenophon
pfft. I have the answer keys to standardized tests.
Not to use digression in the pejorative sense, but we have certainly digressed-
I would add my thoughts on the Iran matter but GunnyL seems to have spoken the majority of what was in my head (so I tip my hat, sir).
However I was perusing Commentary Magazine and stumbled across a remarkably well-constructed, eloquent analysis and recommendation for how to deal with the amorphous-but-certainly-still-volatile nation that is Iran.
I think we can agree on the incompetence of Amedenijhad and I would love to hear any arguments in favor of his remaining in office because I'm in need of a good laugh.
First post, so I can only give you text, but here's a text link:
w ww.commentarymagazine.com/cm/main/viewArticle.html?id=10882
Some choice quotes for those too lazy to read:
"The military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq cannot be understood if they are regarded as self-contained wars in their own right. Instead we have to see them as fronts or theaters that have been opened up in the early stages of a protracted global struggle. The same thing is true of Iran. As the currently main center of the Islamofascist ideology against which we have been fighting since 9/11, and as (according to the State Departments latest annual report on the subject) the main sponsor of the terrorism that is Islamofascisms weapon of choice, Iran too is a front in World War IV."
"I call this new war World War IV, because I also believe that what is generally known as the cold war was actually World War III, and that this one bears a closer resemblance to that great conflict than it does to World War II. Like the cold war, as the military historian Eliot Cohen was the first to recognize, the one we are now in has ideological roots, pitting us against Islamofascism, yet another mutation of the totalitarian disease we defeated first in the shape of Nazism and fascism and then in the shape of Communism..."
Intriguing, am I right?
-Xenophon
It may come as a surprise, but your religious supremacist Islamosfascist doppelgangers think exactly the same as you do.
Only in their insane scenario YOU are the galactic satanic source of all evil.
Seeing as you know the score on WASPingtons War on Terrrortory, I assume we wont see the artful forgetfulness and sympathy-seeking snivelling from you if The Reich suffers another 9/11 Holocaust?
Will you just resignedly say, Cest la Guerre! whenever a bus backfires or a steam pipe groans and the gun-shy Gyrenes here hysterically demand nooklah retaliation against San Marino or Sealand?
You need to make up your mind. If I am the "galactic satanic source of all evil," then xenophon cannot be.
And this "gyrene" only want nuclear retaliation againt YOUR house.
As in Rice Christian, or a "Souper" - a starving Scot or Irishman who converted from his native Catholicism to Protestantism for a bowl of Proddie broth.
funny, islamic extremists just flashed through mine.
Oh youre alright, Guns. In fact if you had been born in Australia to Cafflik parents you would probably be a good guy to know.
Sure, you are as evil as demons shit, but I dont really personally condemn you for that. I mean, what hope did you have growing up in THE Axis of Evil - where egotism is a virtue?
I just think that by collectively blaming and punishing ALL Americans for the sins of the successive regimes of the right-wing control freaks, that they relentlessly elect, it might effect some personal reflection in one or two of the excruciatingly arrogant arseholes here.
You know, sarcastically hit them with a few balls of the same condescending shit, that they simplistically apply to collectively incriminate and punish entire peoples; purportedly for the heinous sins of their American appointed leaders, but in reality to appropriate their possessions and property.
Hopefully to get them wondering how they would feel if the jack boot was on the other foot and they were in their victims situation for once in their self-centred lives.
But above all - to get them wondering WHERE their perceived born-to-rule birthright comes from.
To paraphrase George Santayana, Those who wont face their national philosophy are condemned to repeat it! - ad fucking nauseam.
In hindsight I should have called myself Reverso when I first signed in here.
In other words, you have no REAL basis for an argument ... only unsubstantiated allegations based on penis envy?
My arguments are only unsubstantiated in your patently programmed American mind.
Im not in the slightest bit surprised at your purblind refusal to face universally accepted facts. Not when America meticulously ignores what the entire world thinks is fact.
So who am I to imagine Im going to be successful getting through to poor indoctrinated drones like you, who think global truth is Commumuslim inspired anti-Christian cant?
This is why I dont waste my time arguing with you or the rest of rabid members of the stay-at-home USMC on USMB. "Those who are convinced against their drill are unconvinced still."
You and your surplus to operational requirements Marine Corpse mates, and their sickeningly arse-licking admirers here, are like the WW2 Japanese who held out in the Philippines until the 1970s.
Until their old CO is located to personally tell them otherwise, they will hold out against patent reality and fight for your inebriate Emperors right to rule the world until their last brainwashed breath.
This is also why exasperated people crash aircraft into your buildings
Distemper Fi!
My arguments are only unsubstantiated in your patently programmed American mind.
Im not in the slightest bit surprised at your purblind refusal to face universally accepted facts. Not when America meticulously ignores what the entire world thinks is fact.
Problem with you is, you talk out both sides of your mouth. Since when did you start giving a damn what anyone else, much less "the world" thinks?
Yet you presume to admonish me for it?
The basic flaw to your argument in regards to a CO is that you assume any of us Marines ever listened to officers and their schoolbook antics. I spent most of my time to unfuck everything they got their hands on, and actually accepting what they say as fact completely out of the question.
I think the basic problem here is you have always sectretly dreamed of being a Marine Private ... we could live in a veritable utopia and YOU would find something to grumble about.
Problem with you is, you talk out both sides of your mouth. Since when did you start giving a damn what anyone else, much less "the world" thinks?
My arguments are only unsubstantiated in your patently programmed American mind.
Im not in the slightest bit surprised at your purblind refusal to face universally accepted facts. Not when America meticulously ignores what the entire world thinks is fact.
So who am I to imagine Im going to be successful getting through to poor indoctrinated drones like you, who think global truth is Commumuslim inspired anti-Christian cant?
This is why I dont waste my time arguing with you or the rest of rabid members of the stay-at-home USMC on USMB. "Those who are convinced against their drill are unconvinced still."
You and your surplus to operational requirements Marine Corpse mates, and their sickeningly arse-licking admirers here, are like the WW2 Japanese who held out in the Philippines until the 1970s.
Until their old CO is located to personally tell them otherwise, they will hold out against patent reality and fight for your inebriate Emperors right to rule the world until their last brainwashed breath.
This is also why exasperated people crash aircraft into your buildings
Distemper Fi!
Hmmmm, me wonders if ya've been getting the news down in Oz for the last 50 years. If you weren't tanked up on piss your entire life, you'd probably already know that the Aussies are tied to America's foreign policy. Apparently, the Aussies were afraid that the Polynesians would invade their little island with a fleet of dinghies and re-claim their rightful lands. The defenseless criminals from Queersland were so scared of the tiki toters that they worked up a little pact and sought US protection. Tell me ol' chap, how do you feel about ANZUS and Australia's puppy dog role in US operations since World War II?You mean hypocrisy? This is precisely the point of my posts!
Something has brainwashed Americans from birth to believe they are the sole culture-carrying font of all freedom and decency who, Shmoo-like, selflessly delight in dying for lesser beings freedom.
When quite the opposite has been transparently true ever since your fascistic forefathers first fouled the continent with their Jesus-in-Jackboots footprints.
So what is it?
Even pardoning all of Americas criminal past, from Plymouth Rock up until its propaganda expedient Year Zero, (2001) if the world were to treat America as it treats it's repeat felony offenders it would still have collectively gassed, shot, and electrocuted the lot of you for numerous cases of crimes against humanity. (Hows that for a sickeningly smug Seppo sounding piece of self-righteousness! )
Only those too narcissistically inclined to reason could consider Americas protracted high and mighty history of militarily and clandestinely interfering in others affairs; the gargantuan size of its defence forces, and its exclusive brand of rabid Faith-without-wealth-is-dead Christianity, and NOT come up with the same conclusion.
They are only substantiated in your programmed anti-American mind.
Universally accepted = "Chips and the anti-American crowd say so."
You aren't going to successfully get anything into my head since I don't listen to one sided bullshit, but I WILL point out I have rather successfulyl kept your chain pulled for a couple of pages now.
Hmmmm, me wonders if ya've been getting the news down in Oz for the last 50 years. If you weren't tanked up on piss your entire life, you'd probably already know that the Aussies are tied to America's foreign policy. Apparently, the Aussies were afraid that the Polynesians would invade their little island with a fleet of dinghies and re-claim their rightful lands. The defenseless criminals from Queersland were so scared of the tiki toters that they worked up a little pact and sought US protection. Tell me ol' chap, how do you feel about ANZUS and Australia's puppy dog role in US operations since World War II?
Thats Chips and the global moral MAJORITY of anti-Americans, thank you! Which, going by you professed principles, makes Murka a renegade state like Nazi Germany.
No sweat! And thanks for unwittingly providing me with a permanent pretext to air my anti-American views.
I used Guns, he used me
But neither one cared
We were gettin our share
Workin on our night moves
Tryin to lose the awkward Stone Age blues
Workin on our night moves
And it was summertime
If you trawl back through my posts youll find I couldnt agree more with your sarcastic asessment of the disgustingly sychophantic Chester B Goode role we play to The Evil Empire.
"The receiver of stolen goods is worse than the thief."
Or in this case, "The receiver of swollen goods is worse than Commander in Chief"