Okay, I see your point. I just don't agree.

Really? It's perfectly acceptable to whack the hell outta somebody for 'thought crime'?

Last time we waited for Nazis to behave, they burned Europe down.

And ISIS kinda speaks for itself. Their idea of behaving is to kill a person prior to cutting their head off with a pocket knife.

You make an excellent and convincing case for more foreign wars.

Now all I need is for everyone to agree with me, elect me president, and hand me a friendly congress.

I mean, in my opinion, we have been in exactly two justifiable wars since the end of the war of 1812, which would be world war two and the Korean war.

On the Iraq thing, our adventures allowed ISIS to become a threat, by creating a power vacuum.

But we're not talkin' about then, we're talkin' about now; we're not talkin' about an army or government, we're talkin' about some nimrod sportin' a swastika.

Okay, you're havin' lunch, at the table next to you a fellow is spoutin' off about his admiration of ISIS and how he plans to join them. You gonna punch him in the head? For bein' stupid?

Punch him in the head! How crude.

Through the town, we are stalkin'
ISIS recruit, while he's walkin'
A first round kill from the top of a hill
Walking in a sniper wonderland

Or in his dwelling we could plant a time bomb
And we'd set it to go off at twelve
He'd be leaving in a million pieces
When it goes and blows him all to Heh, eh, e...

Later on, we may conspire
Instead to set his place on fire
We'll laugh as he cries
While we burn him alive

Walking in a sniper wonderland

plug him after he joins, not before
 

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:thumbsup:

Either way.

If Allah wills that he be ISIS, he'll survive it.

If he dies, it's because Allah decided he was too stupid to live anyway.

"Last time we waited for them to behave" is a case for more foreign intervention. There are power vacuums all over the place, and Nazis of different stripes all over the place.

Kosovo was certainly defensible from that perspective

HA!

When we *know a jackhole nation is gunnin' for us or our friends, actin' preemptively can be justfied. When we get all adventuristic that's when we screw up.









*not 'suspect', know...Iggy Rabinowitz: If you know someone is coming to kill you, get up early and go kill him first....know is a high standard and we ought to work hard to meet it, without exception

How about having your heart broken for a little bit today?

Here ya go.



From this story on NPR.ORG today. Very, very worthy.

She says we're repeating this blue-eyed/brown-eyed experiment every day.

That experiment is old, I first read about it at least a dozen years ago. Of course it's not an experiment any more, now it's an excellent teaching tool.

I must admit I have hated successive Tory governments here in the UK, and continue to do so.

But I like the quote from the comic strip Pogo:

'We have met the enemy and he is us'

We have a strong tendency to repeat the mistakes of those before us, to blame others rather than ourselves, which reinforces our own sense of normality and self-justification. It is a lot easier to assign some other group as the enemy and offload on them than to deal with our own problems.

To inject a humorous angle on this I'll reference Richard Herring (Here's the bit, the first 1:15)


"I chose to live my life by the motto 'My enemy's enemy is my friend.' Unfortunately, as it turns out, my enemy is his own worst enemy. So I have to invite him to barbecues and stuff. It's quite annoying because I don't really like him.


"It's doubly annoying because he lives his life by the motto, 'Keep your friends close but keep your enemies closer.' I'm just helping him out there; it's an annoyance."

Ha! Brilliant.