At least you said the fact that this isn't a news-worthy issue. I think the race card is just desperately raised here to get some importance to a non-...
A lot of those who have been there, like many blue berets that have been in Lebanon, share your pessimistic view. I see no easy way out here at all. Y...
Ok this is an answer to your remark on the Trump thread. There's three counterarguments to your opinion. First, there is no unified Islamic front. In ...
Do Christian fundamentalists in the US have? Btw better discuss the American Family Association, who created the websites "One Million Moms" and also ...
And that was already a huge mess. Older Bush still made sense. He put up together a surprising alliance and got the green light both from the Soviet U...
No. What I mean that the behaved irresponsibly, didn't care much about possible credit losses because the loans were packaged together and were though...
There's also the actual definition of a conspiracy. The definition you refer to, basically making and/or believing wild assumptions on the cause of so...
His vision? Trump has a vision on Iran, really? I think Trump surely has visions of his own grandeur and success, but I wouldn't think that he has rea...
I agree. Especially the people who get excited about these issues tend to forget that political leaders aren't so omnipotent as they say they are. Pol...
And that his supporters simply believe him to be something else as every criticism is just the rant of the democrats/Deep State/MSM/whatever. Everythi...
Trump is a politician. Just with a new flavour. Not being a career politician doesn't make one not to be a politician. Eisenhower as a President was a...
Exactly. The so-called Doves get killed in the Middle East. While basically the ranting hate-speachers (who typically haven't been themselves anywhere...
Eisenhower is a great example of someone coming into politics with a stellar career in another field. And keeping the Western Alliance during WW2 inta...
Also 1956. During the Suez crisis Israel performed it's part without any problems. And don't forget Operation "Peace for Galilee" in 1982, the swift o...
With having a strong nuclear deterrence, total superiority in the air and basically with their own armed forces being superior to other, having their ...
Yep. Iran admitted it was an accidental downing. See Iran admits to shooting down plane unintentionally. It tells actually how they thought that hitti...
Yes, what will Sheldon Adelson and the AIPAC talk and what will they make Trump / the next President / the US do? With the actual state of Israel the ...
Ever been a genuine effort to break the stranglehold of the two party system? I haven't. Teddy Roosevelt's Progressive Party got 28% of the votes in t...
Correct. You might then add 3) The administration sticks it's head into the ground and denies 1) and 2) and says everything is OK now. And anyone sayi...
Oh you mean like JFK and Nikita Khrushchev had after the Cuban missile crisis, where we were going to WW3? Cold War continued afterwards with quite a ...
Does then pinning your hopes on a politician promising change help? Or pinning your hopes on a narcissistic billionaire-pretend that wants to be accep...
So it looks (with the airplane accident). It happens with GBAD (ground based air defence) when it's put to highest alert. They start shooting everythi...
I think the problem is that corporations and the extremely rich can influence far too much the policies and simply write the best laws for themselves ...
And today what is better? And it's a logical choice. Trying to compete with the USAF & USN by a conventional air force is a hopeless attempt for Iran,...
Putin wants that Russia is a Great Power. A global player. It's the Russian version of "Make the Country Great Again!" This message sells, you know. H...
Seems you didn't get the sarcasm... the part that he's now with the re-election issue and obviously thinking that killing an Iranian general would be ...
Thanks for you sketch, Tim. It just shows how the whole political discourse has evolved. And I think of Trump's antics will be taken by the Party even...
Continuing with a war with Iran IS a stupid move. Nobody thinks otherwise. Well, if Iraq goes really through with sending US forces and other foreign ...
In the (Dis)information war is on...as usual. But on full steam now. Victim: Kuna (through Reuters page) Yet Star & Stripes (via AP) reports: Interest...
When it comes to Christians, it's because of the Bible. Matthew 27:24-25 It's one the most obnoxious and absolutely disgusting things in the Holy Bibl...
Congratulations! You got yourself the First Trump war. Or not. If Trump starts a war and attacks those 52 targets he promised to attack, you'll be for...
Well, we have the promise from Trump to attack 52 targets, and luckily a flip-flop from him on the cultural targets, so I guess Persepolis will be int...
This is the fear everybody has about Trump. Nobody believes that Trump would even consider preparing some coherent plan or form an alliance. What he b...
It is the most astonishing thing about US foreign policy: that the sole Superpower goes is so much influenced and controlled by a small country, which...
I agree with this totally. This is the stupidity of Trump as the Obama agreement was indeed a better option. But the bad thing was that it was done by...
International tribunals give bad vibes to Trump supporters. Besides, Trump doesn't care about all that humbug of international law and isn't in the bu...
I don't think that's likely. Remember that the British already said "No" to US when Obama wanted to bomb Syria. Remember that "red line" Obama draw an...
You noticed it too? Not something that is on the first page, but ought to be. Trump is already contemplating sanctions against Iraq if they go through...
The Fukuyaman moment of "End of History" was a different kind of hubris, but still hubris just like 'Manifest Destiny' with similar ideas of inescapab...
No, I don't think so. You see, the allies of the US are still waiting for the US to take the leadership role. Trump is still seen as an anomaly and th...
The US has been the biggest economy for a long time. The only thing is that it isn't as dominant as it was in the 1950's, when Europe was still rebuil...
WSJ So there you have it! Americans are kicked out by the government they used so much effort and money to create and install. Hooray for democracy. A...
I think that finally many of them start to be tired of being called hypocrites (by supporting Trump and saying that they are also for Christian values...
Wrong. Number one energy producer is China. The US has been before number one, but isn't anymore. And with the other rankings, if you mean by "more a ...
You don't count the heads of the military-industrial complex being part of the US ruling class? Do you think getting the evangelical vote is something...
I've come to the conclusion the US foreign policy doesn't exist anymore. It's been replaced by Presidential tweets, that the US officials have to then...
Actually Trump also bombed his own allies. But I guess it works great. See how well it worked with Pakistan, your former ally. Yeah, some time ago the...
Lol. The one's in a tough spot are the Americans. Already Americans are fleeing Iraq. We'll see if they can still hang on to Iraq, or if we see them b...
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