I also like his cunning plan of fooling Kim Jong-Un into thinking America didn't want North Korea to have nuclear weapons when all along he planned on...
No, he planned it all from the start. He knew Iran would fire dozens of missiles at an American base in retaliation for his attack and these missiles ...
In fairness, you take a lot of flak on Trump from just about every angle and manage to stay remarkably good-natured about it, which is admirable. And ...
If anyone wants to argue about war crimes in the context of America vs Iran, I'll give you ten American atrocities for every one Iranian. Despite that...
The American military has tortured and sponsored torture and the murder of innocent civilians in Iraq and elsewhere. You think because they don't do i...
I'm waiting for the moral argument that justifies killing Soleimani rather than Bush or Trump that goes beyond they're American and he's not. I don't ...
He helped the US fight the Taliban. He also fought ISIS, Al-Nusrah, and Al-Qaeda in Syria. He was a high-ranking military official of a sovereign nati...
I'm not a pacifist; sometimes the use of military force is justified. The main point I'm making above is that a moral argument would require looking a...
If someone assassinated Bush Jr for his part in the Iraq war, would you consider that justice? What about stormin' Norman? Does he deserve to die? And...
On your first day in McDonald's, you learn to flip burgers or you're out. That principle of employee competence might be worth applying to the most im...
Trump is an ignoramus who knows nothing about international or military affairs. There is no 'there' there behind the stupidities apparent in his inte...
Iran gave Trump the finger, but did it in a smart way. They've called his bluff with a direct and open attack on US military forces, but done it in su...
Risky to make bluffs that have your own guys contradicting you, especially when those guys are the ones you'll need to rely on for military action. Mi...
Stupid of Trump to threaten terrorist attacks on cultural sites. Even the Pentagon told him to fuck off. If he's trying to unite the world, including ...
Fair enough. The ontology of concepts is thorny. My claim regarded early cognitive and linguistic development. You've already developed beyond that st...
That one re the OP (the other is true too though). A "sense" of self vs a "conception" of society is an asymmetric comparison. Developmentally, senses...
You've concluded I know nothing about the Middle East because I didn't ask you what you meant about something? You're an odd one. And I'm pretty sure ...
And sorry if I hurt your feelings. Let's be friends again and show the US and Iran a good example. :love: Just to clarify my argument by the way. My c...
You don't give the impression of someone with anything much to contribute @"frank". You'll just have to own that until you actually say something othe...
What are these, specifically, and why do they require you to get into an armed conflict with each other as opposed to finding some kind of mutually le...
Why? Which is why he helped you fight the Taliban? No, it doesn't. You're not thinking. Try the analogy again. Try to think about not fucking yourself...
@"ssu" Funnily enough, I read recently that Trump was losing support among Evangelicals and the religious in general and was concerned to shore that u...
For students of bad rhetoric, unsupported argument, vacuity, and cliche, please see the above. Or try the "America fuck yeah" video in the Iran thread...
You make the argument on a case-by-case basis looking at other factors besides the propensity for lies. And you have to do that with every politician....
@"BitconnectCarlos" Here's another analogy. A: Check out this guy sticking pins in us. B: What shall we do about it? A: Well, we can't just let him ge...
It would only take the minutest step back from hyperbole to concede the point. Even if Trump is 99.9% a sham, he would still be capable of believing i...
If you're going to reduce yourself to the absurd claim that Trump is not capable of believing in any policy of his because he's a liar, you'll find yo...
A good way not to start a war would be not to assassinate the heads of foreign armies. You can punish your enemies in more subtle ways than that. It's...
Because he's a serial liar doesn't mean he's not capable of having a policy he actually believes in. He said he wants a wall and he actually does want...
No one wants a war that could potentially kill hundreds of thousands but given that hundreds have been killed, we should have one. No, your position i...
Not impossible but he has support on this from folks he doesn't normally get much support from, e.g. John Bolton and US intelligence chiefs. It seems ...
It's not just about them being weak or strong though, it's also about the extent to which they are likely to facilitate or oppose your interests. It w...
Not perfectly though. I can't plot a positive economic or strategic outcome to this for the US ruling classes that beats sticking with the Iran deal a...
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