Recent content by dino

Try not to remind them that Saddam, for all his faults, kept the Christians there protected, was brutal against Islamist uprisings, and made his VP a Christian as an extra "**** you" to theocrats. You would think that for all their post-9/11 "we can't afford to be choosy" cynicism (which only...

My parents are both practicing Muslims and well over 1/2 of their really close friends are "infidels" even though they lived in areas with plenty of Muslims to hang out with if they wanted to remain exclusive. Are my parents just setting them up for an al-Qaeda beheading video 20~ years in the...

There are plenty of examples of how it's not, like say Muslims cooperating with us in the most dangerous parts of the world. But it's pointless to argue with your type because your main goal is to sound "tough" and you immediate gravitate toward any position makes you feel manly, as long as it's...

Well in an ideal world, anyone who contributed to the weekly bombings and continuous sanctions in Iraq in the 1990s and the unprovoked invasion in 2003 knowing the scale of the civilian casualties they would cause ought to be handed over to a randomly selected group of 500 able-bodied ordinary...

The Judaism practiced in Israel is a lot like the Islam there, unapologetically hostile to the encroachment of other religions. Israel's chief rabbi repeatedly came out in favor of civilian targets and collective punishment, defending them as correct under Jewish law. While in Israel you pretty...

If the holes in my logic are so gapingly obvious then why don't you point them out? This whole "you're so ridiculous that I can't even argue back" charade is fooling no one, not even your blockhead fellow teabaggers. As if I'm arguing that 9/11 was a conspiracy by the CIA in conjunction with...

I always found it interesting that as much as Republicans of the Limbaugh variety love to indulge in tough-talk and "Political Incorrectness" because it makes them feel like the testosterone-gushing bad asses they never were in real life, the foreign policy link to 9/11 is sort of like their...

Then why don't you enlighten us with examples of visible involvement of these countries in mass-killings in the Middle East sometime in the past, say, 30 years

An even better example for your case would be France's war of attrition in Algeria, which also isn't a cause for major anti-France sentiment today. Because the occupation of Algeria and the construction of the Dimona nuclear plant in Israel were both several generations ago, and the example you...