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Originally posted by SyphonX
I'm all done with this thread. It's devolved into a jingoist circle-jerk, where everyone is bastardizing American values and disgracing "the uniform" they once wore, if even at all.
Go ahead and pretend you rule on a moral high-ground, while you send your sons and daughters to die. Because you're so frightened of the bomb. Boo hoo. Itty bitty tough guys are soo scared. Let's send our children to die in a war.
Psychopaths coming in bearing "Templar Knight" avatars and talking about "killing America's enemies" and "protecting freedom". Unbelievable, you people have not evolved and you're a disgrace to America.
Originally posted by maestromason
To conclude my participation in this thread I remain standing where I am and never faltered.
War, is it pretty?... no.
War, is it accommodating?... no
War, is it necessary... YES!
War will ensure that the American way of living is perpetuated and is unique. War with Iran is inevitable. All peace-nicks, green-tea sippers and believers of peace(green or any other color) are delusional.
Human beings are multicultural beings and to attempt to unify them is asinine.
The Tower of Babel fell for a reason, and all the tongues of all the nations made to vary.
Tolerance is one thing that shall respectfully divide the masses and has been exercised since time began.
I will not reverse myself to appease anyone or anything. As a man I stand on solid ground with my people who are of like mind.
A coward who attempts to balance an argument by either reversing him/herself or by not being him/herself is neither worthy of the air I breathe nor the land I stand on.
For as long as you have TWO differentiating view points on how the world works and how people should live you will have War.
I as an American am proud of my country, and I would not want to be born and raised in any other country on Earth!
War, is it necessary... YES!
War will ensure that the American way of living is perpetuated and is unique. War with Iran is inevitable. All peace-nicks, green-tea sippers and believers of peace(green or any other color) are delusional.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by peck420
Well I for one am not advocating an "Attack or Regime change" in Iran. I know some here do.
I'd be happy with a shift in their agenda.
Is that too much or extreme?
Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by hmdphantom
For somebody who just a few pages back was spewing Allah's word now seems [when pressed for clarification] to fall back on an awful lot of "maybes"
Originally posted by Tw0Sides
Haters gonna hate, It keeps them enlarged in their own minds.
Originally posted by hmdphantom
Is bullying the best way to get answer in your culture?
Originally posted by hmdphantom
We don't have a govt killing innocent backwards worldwide.
WE like teaching those people rather than killing them
Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
reply to post by Aeons
Peace means to find one's rightful place in a place of surrender to the will of Allah and His Servants.
You will *never* find anyone who argues this point. They'll try to take it off course; they'll use Jean Paul's techniques. They'll attack me. But they will never tell you that my definition is wrong. My definition is taken from Islamic scholars from all sects.
Look at you! Last time you replied to me, you were backing down and claiming you were not advocating an invasion of Iran, but look at you now, and it ain't even under the pretense of a nuclear armed Iran, it is flat out Islamaphopia you are speaking to, and at least honestly in this post, in spite of your effort to link my own earnest plea for the U.S. to simply lay down their own nuclear arsenal before using the nuclear arsenals of other countries as an excuse to invade them, with Islamic drivel.
My "techniques" are rooted in my own honest beliefs, and you will certainly not *ever* find me deceitfully backing off of an argument I made contending I did not make that argument. If I back off of an argument it is because I own to being wrong. If I don't back down it because I don't see where I am wrong. Call that a "technique" if you like, but I'll take that over your own shameful disingenuous any day.
Various countries have been buying gold. Russia, China, India have all bought a lot…The list of countries accumulating gold is similar to the list of countries that were reported to be talking about the need for a new reserve currency to replace the dollar.
In January of this year the India Times reported that India was talking to Iran about moving out of dollar settlements so as to be able to buy Iranian oil despite a US embargo. India said it was discussing settling in Gold. Remember, India has just signed a settlement agreement with China to use the Yuan.
China and Russia have been trading directly in their own currencies and using them both interchangeably for settlement for over a year. As the The China Daily article reports,
China is allowing greater use of its currency for cross-border transactions to reduce reliance on the US dollar, after Premier Wen Jiabao said in March he was “worried” about holdings of assets denominated in the greenback.
Japan and China will promote direct trading of the yen and yuan without using dollars and will encourage the development of a market for companies involved in the exchanges, the Japanese government said.
Iran and China on Wednesday signed two agreements on expansion of trade ties and joint investments. These trades too will not be settled in Dollars or in Euros.
think the stand-off with Iran in the Straits of Hormuz over sanctions is as much to do with the moves to replace the dollar as anything else. The stand off is as much with China and its allies as it is specifically with Iran. The US is testing China’s nerve and the solidity of its network of bilateral currency settlement agreements. We are seeing military power deployed to counter economic power
Despite the mounting tension, Iranian leaders have to stick to the country’s nuclear course, because otherwise they will risk losing their core hardline supporters, also essential to secure a high turnout in the March vote, analysts say.
“Iranians have always managed to cope with sanctions, but now with talks about oil embargo the authorities feel cornered. That is why they have increased the volume of harsh rhetoric,” said Iranian analyst Khosro Karami.
“They will do anything to prevent street unrest, which will jeopardize the clerical establishment’s existence.”
I'll point out again, that we are already at war with Iran. So far no invasion necessary.
In case you didn't know, most of the Pan-Islamic groups are covertly (so covert you don't even know about it) at war with you. So is China.
Originally posted by TsukiLunar
reply to post by Jean Paul Zodeaux
Jean Paul Zodeaux - The kind of guy who will never be a leader.
Originally posted by Aeons
reply to post by Jean Paul Zodeaux
The planet is small, and your world view is miniscule.
Originally posted by ImaFungi
reply to post by Aeons
... I believe that if all men and women had security and hope for their future, the ability to provide food and a home for their family, there would be no need for wars, or jails, no one would need to steal, or fight for freedom, no one would need nuclear missiles, people would know that the only thing worth living for is life it self, that is true love, true peace, true freedom,