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Re: War fleet leaves for Persia

Postby rwwff » Mon 25 Sep 2006, 16:59:13

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', 'B')ut really, why have them in-theatre at all? Wouldn't it be better to have them parked in Europe somewhere, where they can't be hit by a lucky rocket strike?


No particular reason other than cutting down the lead time and improving the element of surprise. There can be no secret take-offs from within Europe.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')hen again, I know France has some of their own. So do the Turks. There may not need to be a deployment afterall.


I wouldn't expect them to be onboard, even for support, in such an operation.
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Re: War fleet leaves for Persia

Postby CrudeAwakening » Mon 25 Sep 2006, 17:14:33

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Fergus', 'I') on the other hand would rather go ahead and pull the gloves off and let the world know, AMerica is the strongest country of them all. PERIOD. Therefore America is ENTITLED to the IRanian oil since its us who are losing our young men protecting the Cindy Sheehans of the world.

No, you're losing your young men because you were dumb enough to support your president in a ridiculous war that has turned out exactly as could have been predicted by anyone with a modicum of foresight. This does not give you any entitlement to anything, other than a claim to stupidity and ignorance on a mass scale.
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Re: War fleet leaves for Persia

Postby rogerhb » Mon 25 Sep 2006, 17:53:36

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('IanC', 'J')ust envision the Village People on the deck of the Eisenhauer singing "In the Navy" in full regalia.


That's the difference between the US Navy and the Royal Navy.

The RN adopted Rod Stewert's "I am sailing" as their theme tune for a while.

According to folk lore, the US Navy almost fell for the Village People act.
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Re: War fleet leaves for Persia

Postby Fergus » Mon 25 Sep 2006, 18:01:40

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Gideon', 'H')ey Fergus, I believe that in each of us there is hope, and I was a lot like you just a few years ago.

I have kids. I am type A. I was a jealous psycho boyfriend. I like handguns. I lift weights.

But I am a man who thinks that the one required credential for the title "man" is standing behind what you do and taking responsibility for what you do - especially if what you have done is wrong.


You wrote:
"Pretty much, isnt that what I said. I make no bones about my stances. I would rather kill the pple that would rather kill me and take their oil. There. Can I be any more clearer."

No, I do not believe this is what you said. I also do not believe that this is the natural consequence of your opinion.

I think you will kill men, women, and children <b><u>whether
or not the would rather kill you</u></b>.

You see the difference? The 4 year olds in Iran don't want to kill you. They will, but not right now. There are also many others in Iran who don't want to kill you. But you will kill them. All for oil.

Please don't say that you want to kill them before they kill you.

So I won't put words in your mouth, but I'll try to sum up what I think your position is. If this isn't your position, by the way, it certainly is the position of Bush, IMO.

"I, Fergus, am ready and willing to kill - in addition to those who hate me and want me dead - children and all other innocents who live where the oil is whether or not they hate me and want me dead and whether or not their country is any threat whatsoever to me or mine."

That, Fergus, is really your position. Don't sugar coat it. Don't try to find excuses why you have to kill them before they will kill you.

Tell the truth, Fergus, you would support Bush sending in the military to Venezuela to kill Chavez, his supporters, and any innocents as well, in order to ensure that we can steal their oil.

Right?

I respect that you recognize your position somewhat. Will you recognize it all the way, and, more importantly, will you recognize that your position is one based on evil? That is, that you are the bad guy doing what he needs to do to stay on top.





"You are the next target after we pull out of Iraq and let Iran build her nuclear arsenal."

I am certainly not the next target.


"If you are fine with waiting for death to come to you, more power to you."
Fergus, this is the most well thought out thing you wrote. The irony is that you don't even know what you wrote.

The obvious implication in your sentence is that, while I am content to wait for death to come to me, you will go out and find it! Perfectly said, my friend.


"AMerica is the strongest country of them all. PERIOD. "
True. But not for long.

I used to be a patriot like you. For a long time. Used to wave the flag like this. America is strong only because it has residual military power. That will fade quickly in the next 10 years as domestic concerns start to become more important.


"Therefore America is ENTITLED to the IRanian oil since its us who are losing our young men protecting the Cindy Sheehans of the world."

This makes no sense. You are entitled to nothing. All life is a gift. How unwise you are.


You may be right. you may be wrong. Its got little to do with being an American and patriotism. To tell you the truth, America sucks as a country. I have to press 1 to talk in english. I have to be careful what I say and how I say it and who I say it too and who may over hear it. Politically correct weak ass democratic policies have turned america into a bleeding heart welfare state where an illegal immigrant that cant speak english has more rights then I do and is actually entitled to free schooling, health care welfare checks while I just lose everything I have worked my whole life for.

Dont make the mistake of thinking I am waving a flag. I am pissed we are giving America away and would like nothing better then all 11 million illegal immigrants (and there kids, I dont give a damn if there born in America legally, there still illegal) to be rounded up and sent on back to Mexico. I would like a foreigner to have to actually learn the english language if they are gunna come here and do business. I learnt french and a smidge of german when I lived in Switzerland. I learned Arabic when I lived in Saudi Arabia. I never expected them to bend over backwards for me. Yet these screwballs not only expect me to bend over backwards, but demand it.

My stance comes out of a frustration. I can see America withering on the vine. I dont like it. Not because I am patriotic. but because I am paying for the very distruction of America.

But with all that said, I still want America to be the last 1st world country, or a 1st world country for as long as it can.

Now on the Iraq/Iran bullcrap, I have lived over there. I understand where they are coming from. I know what they are like and how they live and what it means to be an arab to them. I consider pples background before I pass judgement on them. Yes I have passed judgement on them from my American point of view. Dont even gothere as far as the right or wrongness of judging pple, its a fact of life, we all do it in degrees, some lesser, some more. I am not afraid to tell you, that may be the difference between me and the masses. I am getting tired of politically correctness and refuse to participate in it any longer.

I dare you to study the dogma of the radical islamist. I mean deep study, get under their skin and learn their heart beat. Learn whats important to them. I wager over half the pple that condemn these bastages dont have a clue what it means to be a radical islamist, from the radical islamist point of view. They are incapable of putting themselves in that radical islamist shoes. I have not only been in em, I have walked a mile in them. I know.

Now one thing most pple dont recognize. The radical islamist timetabel is set up in centuries. Not days, weeks, months or years. They are willing to wait ungodly lengths of time to acheive their plans and see their results. The western civilization cant even fathom waiting 2 centuries for change.

The radical islamist only thought is of killing. Its ideologies are based in violence and ethnic cleansing. After we pull out, watch the sunnies kill the shi'ites. Then turn on us, the west, The US and Isreal. Then europe and then they will deal with Russia and china and other asian nations that they can afford to wait on. Again, centuries, not even decades.

So the point is we can kill em all (4 year olds or 40, makes no difference to me) (Imagine OBL dead at age 4, imagine the ayatollah komeni assasinated in France in the 70's, no issues today) (a bomb kills indiscriminatenly and I dont even have to see their face so what do I care) or we can wait till they muster the armaments and balls to bring it to us. Wait for them 4 yos to grow up and strap on a bomb vest and walk into a mall in America. Look at spain, a terrorist retreat if there ever was one. How would you like that in every civilized country, all the time. Its coming. I firmly believe that after studying these pple. Dont forget, I lived with them for 3 years.

You guys can think I am the most evil person, a neocon dog, I dont care what you label me, I am who I am and I doubt anything written on a forum is gunna change who I am. I judge by actions, not words. I have judged the radical islamists as fastidious, determined and deadly to any non alligned radical group. That means if you are not akin to them, you are dead!!!!!!Now or tomorrow or next century, they think they have the time to wait it out. They well may have it too, I dont know how oil will play into their plans, but they will have oil and money long after we do not. Therefore it is imperitive in my mind to deal with the issues today, in a most unpleasant way. We have to make sure they do not have the time, money or oil to eradicate us when we can no longer defend ourselves. And make no mistake, there will come a day when we can not defend ourselves.

As for entitled to it, I am saying we are more entitled to it then say Russia, China, England, Switzerland or any other country as we have not only saved all their asses in the past, we continue to give and give and give. If anyones gunna be last man standing, I think America has paid the price to be in this fight. If we wait 20 years to settle it, we wont be in that fight. We have to do it now. But whatever happens, we can not remain status quo. We will die a horrible death in a 3rd world country at the hands of these same radical islamists as they have the desire, opportunity and means to bring distruction to the shores of America, England, France, Russia, China amd every other non muslim country that does not embrace the radical beliefs of the current regimes in place in Iran.
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Re: War fleet leaves for Persia

Postby Dreamtwister » Mon 25 Sep 2006, 19:25:23

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rwwff', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', 'B')ut really, why have them in-theatre at all? Wouldn't it be better to have them parked in Europe somewhere, where they can't be hit by a lucky rocket strike?


No particular reason other than cutting down the lead time and improving the element of surprise. There can be no secret take-offs from within Europe.


The bombers have to fly all the way from the States. What lead time? No matter where the tankers are stationed, it's still something like a 16 hour flight from Minot AFB

As for surprise, there's 3 carrier groups in the area, and a fourth is on the way. I think it's pretty safe to say the cat is out of the bag.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rwwff', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')hen again, I know France has some of their own. So do the Turks. There may not need to be a deployment afterall.


I wouldn't expect them to be onboard, even for support, in such an operation.


Maybe, maybe not. As it turns out, the whole discussion is moot anyway. There are 7 KC-135's stationed at the base on Diego Garcia.
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Re: War fleet leaves for Persia

Postby EnergyUnlimited » Tue 26 Sep 2006, 02:37:54

Fergus,
You are probably right in your perception of islamic fundamentals, but I really think that you are overestimating their ability to harm the West.

The only real threat to the US, would be if "WASP fighting aliens" manage to outbreed WASP-s in the US and "take over" the country by democratic means or violence, and all the data available to me are suggesting that this is the likely future.

In respect of current Muslim fanatics in the Middle East, I do not think, that they pose a real threat to western civilization as such (may be with exception of Israel).
Not much would be changed, if Iran had built few nukes, as they would be rather their liability than asset.
It makes no sense in firing few nukes on someone, if most of them are unlikely to reach destination and additionally you may experience few thousands nukes exploding on your own territory in revange.

In respect to war on fanatics, the US had already made one critical error in the past.
9/11 attack was perfect opportunity to retaliate on fanatics with far greater decisiveness, than it had been done.
It was a perfect opportunity to convert say Afganistan into nuclear waste dump with 95+% of their population dead by firing all those outdated nukes which are now to be dismantled (and this is far more expensive process). Such a waste...
Good example would be made by the same to some other fanatics around, what could be in store for them, should they pursue their ideas further.
I bet, it would help to keep them at bay for a while, and if not - even worst for them.

Great opportunity to deal with fanatics for good had been hereby wasted, and this is all because of cowardly actions of indecisive Bush administration.
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Re: War fleet leaves for Persia

Postby Doly » Tue 26 Sep 2006, 05:56:21

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', '
')Great opportunity to deal with fanatics for good had been hereby wasted, and this is all because of cowardly actions of indecisive Bush administration.


I hope you are being ironic here.
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Re: War fleet leaves for Persia

Postby Fergus » Tue 26 Sep 2006, 09:09:46

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', 'F')ergus,
You are probably right in your perception of islamic fundamentals, but I really think that you are overestimating their ability to harm the West.

The only real threat to the US, would be if "WASP fighting aliens" manage to outbreed WASP-s in the US and "take over" the country by democratic means or violence, and all the data available to me are suggesting that this is the likely future.

In respect of current Muslim fanatics in the Middle East, I do not think, that they pose a real threat to western civilization as such (may be with exception of Israel).
Not much would be changed, if Iran had built few nukes, as they would be rather their liability than asset.
It makes no sense in firing few nukes on someone, if most of them are unlikely to reach destination and additionally you may experience few thousands nukes exploding on your own territory in revange.

In respect to war on fanatics, the US had already made one critical error in the past.
9/11 attack was perfect opportunity to retaliate on fanatics with far greater decisiveness, than it had been done.
It was a perfect opportunity to convert say Afganistan into nuclear waste dump with 95+% of their population dead by firing all those outdated nukes which are now to be dismantled (and this is far more expensive process). Such a waste...
Good example would be made by the same to some other fanatics around, what could be in store for them, should they pursue their ideas further.
I bet, it would help to keep them at bay for a while, and if not - even worst for them.

Great opportunity to deal with fanatics for good had been hereby wasted, and this is all because of cowardly actions of indecisive Bush administration.


I doubt theres been a perfect war yet, The faulklands were pretty swift but that was more an incursion then a war. Hell Hitler made mistakes and look what happened to Germany. There is no perfect war. This is what pple dont realize. When you commit yourself to war, you have to commit yourself to the very end. The Wishy Washy american pple will never do this again. Special interest groups, lobbyists, too many things distract us from the big picture.

I do hope your right EU, and I am wrong. But like I say, I have really looked into these pple, Lived amoungst them. I understand their history, their ideology. Its scary. Religeous ferver is 10 times more powerful then any patriotic dedication. They will never quit, back down, get distracted.

If your expecting America to fight the perfect war, not lose a single soldier or civilian, your dreaming. War by nature is ugly, violent, brutal and dasterdly. But pple want a pretty war with no casualties.

So this is where I get my pissed off'ness. I see it daily at the gas station, work, Taco Bueno at lunch and everywhere else. The cindy sheehans of the world just dont get it that we are fighting for our kids survival. They expect everything will be the same when we wake up tomorrow. But tomorrow might not be here for us if we dont take care of our business and their business TODAY.

I could be way off and totally wrong. I hope I am actually. But I really dont think I am and thats what scares me the most. I apoligize if my stances upset some pple, I hope they provoke thought and research in others. In all, for that matter. But I know the Cindy Sheehans of the world dont want to here what I think. That makes me sad too. To be truthful, I hate war, dieing and evil in pple. I would prefer living in Nirvana and being able to gather my arabs, jewish and tamil tiger friends for dinner and chat about sports or the weather or the price of oil in china. But we all know that that will never happen cause of an emotion or two. An Idea that they are somehow better then us, we are better then them or any combination of the two. When infact we are all no different, except our ideaologies. Why we cant just get along, Thats the 64 million dollar question. When our whole survival is predicated in us coming together and celebrating mutual bonds, we instead fight each other over perceived differences and highlight the wrongs we do.

Sometimes I wish the earth would blow up or the die off would happen in a 5 year span starting TODAY and 6 billion pple die during it. I will be the first to volunteer for the die off. I would love to see my sons graduate college and get married, but their prepared for the future. I hate the world we live in and am ready to go join my mother in heaven,where there are no terrorists, no differences. Only love and respect for who you are.

We as a race have made a right ruddy mess of everything we touch. We humans are the most evil creature that has ever lived. We have thought and reason and either dont use it, forget to use it, misuse it for our own benefit, instead of the benefit for all mankind. We are sick and diseased with hatred. We deserve to be exterminated.

I am sad i feel this way too. I certainly dont like the world as I see it, and I think I am looking at it through the eyes of a rational man.

So I will quit posting on this thread as I dont like being called a dog, or anything for that matter. But my beliefs are what they are and there they are, up above. I am not militant on every issue, infact I deplore the militant attitude in me at all, I am contributing to the issues by feeling the way I do. I fight myself and swing back and forth on the severity of my beliefs. Last night I got teary eyed and proud as hell watching the New Orleans opener segment on Monday Night Football. It reinforced the power of good in us Humans, something I think we see far to rarely.When I see that stuff, I know we can be good animals and help each other, But why does it take a catastrophe to bring that out in pple. Its an issue I refine and like I say, I wage an inner battle daily to keep the good in front of the bad. I check my attitude. I bite my tongue. And I am sick of doing it all. I just want peace for the world, but I am not fool enough to believe it will happen, therefore wish for the end of it all. If the terrorists are causeing the problems take em out and eradicate the problem. A group sitting in mountains half way round the world should not be able to impact me so greatly. And they damn sure should not make me fear for my life, the life of my children or their children.

Like I say, I hope I have not pissed anyone off too much. I know my views are unpopular. But I feel its an issue most should be made aware of, but I am too tired of trying to tell anyone anymore. Like PO and GW, terrorism is a real threat that can not be ignored. It will grow till its the biggest force on the planet and cant be stopped by any means other then the worst man can dish out towards man.To give them means, money and opportunity would be the worst thing we can do. I firmly believe they will ram it down each and every one of our throats in the future. Sorry to say, your all targets. Even me.
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Re: War fleet leaves for Persia

Postby Bobbotov » Tue 26 Sep 2006, 14:49:31

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')e as a race have made a right ruddy mess of everything we touch. We humans are the most evil creature that has ever lived. We have thought and reason and either dont use it, forget to use it, misuse it for our own benefit, instead of the benefit for all mankind. We are sick and diseased with hatred. We deserve to be exterminated.


I suspect that a super sentient being seeing the planet in its totality would view us as being a parasitic virus.
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Re: War fleet leaves for Persia

Postby EnergyUnlimited » Tue 26 Sep 2006, 15:11:09

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Bobbotov', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')e as a race have made a right ruddy mess of everything we touch. We humans are the most evil creature that has ever lived. We have thought and reason and either dont use it, forget to use it, misuse it for our own benefit, instead of the benefit for all mankind. We are sick and diseased with hatred. We deserve to be exterminated.


I suspect that a super sentient being seeing the planet in its totality would view us as being a parasitic virus.

False.
We are currently a species, who had [temporary] conquered a summit of food chain.
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Re: War fleet leaves for Persia

Postby seahorse » Tue 26 Sep 2006, 16:48:30

Interesting, the official Navy position does not dispute that minesweepers are being deployed and instead, basically agrees with "The Nation" by saying the Navy is required to plan for all contingencies - i.e. war with Iran.
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Re: War fleet leaves for Persia

Postby Free » Tue 26 Sep 2006, 19:43:20

Lol, I like this sentence in the navy article:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')Recent news articles speculating about a naval strike on Iran are being greeted with skepticism by the Navy.


Scepticism??? So they don't know???

It's a bit like A is picking up a gun, B says:"Oh no, you are not gonna shoot me, will you?"

And A:"Hmm, I am very sceptical if I will shoot you"....
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Re: War fleet leaves for Persia

Postby RdSnt » Tue 26 Sep 2006, 22:05:22

Sink 4 aircraft carriers and you've just de-nutted the American Navy.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', 'I') know the Reagan battle group is still on-station in the Gulf or Arabia, but are the Lincoln and Enterprise still in the area as well?

4 battle groups is an aweful lot of firepower. Have the refueling planes been moved to Europe yet? I think that will be the real indicator: a squadron of KC-135's being deployed to Germany or something.
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Re: War fleet leaves for Persia

Postby rwwff » Tue 26 Sep 2006, 22:12:18

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('RdSnt', 'S')ink 4 aircraft carriers and you've just de-nutted the American Navy.


Often threatened...

Never accomplished.
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Re: War fleet leaves for Persia

Postby Dreamtwister » Tue 26 Sep 2006, 23:52:16

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rwwff', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('RdSnt', 'S')ink 4 aircraft carriers and you've just de-nutted the American Navy.


Often threatened...

Never accomplished.


Ever tested?

I've never lost a game of tennis, either. A fairly easy claim to make, since I've never actually played tennis.

Seriously though, we've been over this. The only things Iran has in it's arsenal that is even remotely capable of sinking an aircraft carrier are it's supply of Russian "sunburn" anti-ship missles, and even then, only if it's equipped with a nuclear payload. And they have no way of delivering them to the Gulf of Arabia where the carriers will be stationed for the assault.
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Re: War fleet leaves for Persia

Postby rwwff » Wed 27 Sep 2006, 02:25:31

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', 'E')ver tested?


Nope.. And since the airstrip is mobile out there on the ocean, the easiest way to keep from every having it accomplished, is to deny the opportunity by position to begin with.
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Re: War fleet leaves for Persia

Postby rogerhb » Wed 27 Sep 2006, 03:20:58

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rwwff', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', 'E')ver tested?


Nope.


Or wargamed?
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Re: War fleet leaves for Persia

Postby Dreamtwister » Wed 27 Sep 2006, 10:30:35

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rogerhb', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rwwff', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', 'E')ver tested?


Nope.


Or wargamed?


There was a wargame conducted in...2003 I think. Red team managed to sink half of blue team's ships on the first day of the engagement, but the sunken blue ships were ordered back to the surface I can't remember if any of the magic blue ships were carriers or not. I'm sure someone has a link.
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Re: War fleet leaves for Persia

Postby Free » Wed 27 Sep 2006, 10:58:02

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rogerhb', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rwwff', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', 'E')ver tested?


Nope.


Or wargamed?


There was a wargame conducted in...2003 I think. Red team managed to sink half of blue team's ships on the first day of the engagement, but the sunken blue ships were ordered back to the surface I can't remember if any of the magic blue ships were carriers or not. I'm sure someone has a link.


U Sank My Carrier

But to be honest I think we will see nothing like this in the event of an attack, all this armchair general phantasies will be thoroughly disappointed. The Iranians won't stand a chance to inflict some serious casualties in conventional warfare. Like Iraq, it will be mission accomplished, easily.

And then, like in Iraq, the real war begins. Because carriers, missiles, that's so 20th century!

We live in the time of asymmetrical network 4G warfare, in case you didn't know!

And it's about a war of attrition, not a blitzkrieg.
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Re: War fleet leaves for Persia

Postby galacticsurfer » Wed 27 Sep 2006, 11:15:19

I figure take a few years more and a PO depression with starvation plus some more terror attacks and most everybody worldwide will start thinking like Fergus about all the other peoples. WWIII willbe basically the end. It is good for people to think it through and talk about their feelings about it like Fergus here but when it happens and all the people lose family and have their whole country destroyed in a major patriotic /religious war(like in Europe and East Asia in WWII) they will do everything to avoid a recurrence. Only their Grandchildren will be stupid enough to fight another war and get so worked up about these things. Fergus is right we should all sit together and be friends but it is impossible as we look at the differences more than commonalities. Only people who fought against each other and have learned to hate and respect each other can live again in peace until another 60-80 years later Grandpa is dead and gone and the new generation does not remember the horrors of the last big war.
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