[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('nwildmand', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Miki', 'K')eep hoping. All your preemptive wars won't exterminate them. For every one that dies, hunderds of thousands are born everyday.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jack', 'U')ntil some real events occur, until some new information comes in, we're all just killing time according to our various predispositions. So pull up a chair, open a cold drink, and engage in the pointless posturing and public histrionics. It's good clean fun, and squanders less energy than most of the alternatives.

[nwildmand]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'U')ltimately, people tend to show their hand, if allowed to run on long enough. In response to the gist of Miki's thread, which is "keep bombing us, and you'll create more resistence, not less" (a fair statement about basic self defense) you respond with a mixture of malice and self serving pragmatism about oil.
Who has the terrorist mentality here?

[venky]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('nwildmand', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'U')ltimately, people tend to show their hand, if allowed to run on long enough. In response to the gist of Miki's thread, which is "keep bombing us, and you'll create more resistence, not less" (a fair statement about basic self defense) you respond with a mixture of malice and self serving pragmatism about oil.
Who has the terrorist mentality here?

[nwildmand]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('venky', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('nwildmand', 'w')as there no truth in my response?

[venky]

I know that in the first instance; the word 'glorious' was not used in a literal context; anyone reading the entire post and thread would have come to the same conclusion.

Yes, Miki has said heated things in the thread but it does seem that she was provoked. Look at where she is coming from; her city is being bombed and there are folks on this site saying that it is not only justified; but that it is somehow her fault............

[Miki]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('nwildmand', 'm')iki came out swinging hard on her very first post. she has not let up. you reap what you sow.

[Miki]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kam30en', 'Y')ou can't negotiate with barbaric dark-age fascists who are ruled by clerics and who believe a magic man in the sky wants them to start wars.

[Miki]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('nwildmand', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Miki', 'K')eep hoping. All your preemptive wars won't exterminate them. For every one that dies, hunderds of thousands are born everyday.

[Jack]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Miki', ' ')After seeing the responses of many posters here, I'm hating the American government and those Americans with psychopatic tendencies (many of which loom in this forum) in ways that I never did before.

[Miki]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jack', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Miki', ' ')After seeing the responses of many posters here, I'm hating the American government and those Americans with psychopatic tendencies (many of which loom in this forum) in ways that I never did before.

[nwildmand]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Miki', ' ')or just decided not to respond because you had no valid response?

[Denny]

One quote from Carter is so telling: $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')nd the next step is: Those who disagree with them are inherently inferior, and in extreme cases -- as is the case with some fundamentalists around the world -- it makes your opponents sub-humans, so that their lives are not significant.
Another thing is that a fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

[rwwff]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Miki', 'T')he ME is the basis of your existence. You depend on their oil for everything you do, and you're doing very little to reduce your dependance. The ones coming along nicely are you.

[nazman]

While I really enjoyed reading posts from someone inside Lebanon over the course of the war, I don't know how anybody can spend so much time arguing with people who are turned on by "ordinance" and are convinced they are headed for a bright survialist future, surrounded by slaves.

If that's the future they are expecting, there's no way they are going to entertain notions such as war and violence not being the sole motivating factors in human civilization. Cooperation, innovation, adaptability and ingenuity don't parse. Those people have already given up and can't be convinced.

[Miki]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('nwildmand', 'i') dont have the time to enter 25 posts a day like you. if you havent noticed i post in the planning for the future threads when ever i can give some good advice. im the one actually trying to help people here.

[Miki]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rwwff', 'M')iki, you're exagerating. We depend on the mideast to drive gigantic trucks, with four simultaneously running TV screens, and blasting A/C down to the mall to buy barbie dolls. We depend on the mid-east to spend hours burning gas, zipping around in circles on really fast, loud water born pests called jet skis.
Our domestic production is absolutely huge compared to what most countries can bring to bare.

[Miki]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('nazman', 'W')hile I really enjoyed reading posts from someone inside Lebanon over the course of the war, I don't know how anybody can spend so much time arguing with people who are turned on by "ordinance" and are convinced they are headed for a bright survialist future, surrounded by slaves.
If that's the future they are expecting, there's no way they are going to entertain notions such as war and violence not being the sole motivating factors in human civilization. Cooperation, innovation, adaptability and ingenuity don't parse. Those people have already given up and can't be convinced.

[rwwff]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Miki', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rwwff', 'M')iki, you're exagerating. We depend on the mideast to drive gigantic trucks, with four simultaneously running TV screens, and blasting A/C down to the mall to buy barbie dolls. We depend on the mid-east to spend hours burning gas, zipping around in circles on really fast, loud water born pests called jet skis.
Our domestic production is absolutely huge compared to what most countries can bring to bare.

[rwwff]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Miki', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'f')act: lebanon is in a desert