by mekrob » Tue 07 Nov 2006, 16:05:29
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')I guess that makes kam our own personal drunk who crossed the median while doing 85m/h without his seatbelt on.
Does anybody have any doubt that the two will have similar fates?
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by Ingenuity_Gap » Tue 07 Nov 2006, 18:21:59
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ingenuity_Gap', 'I') really don't understand why this thread went so far (5 pages already). Look at kam's avatar. Does he deserve so many answers?
Yet, you felt compelled to post to it as well.
You see, it's kind of like driving past a car accident. You know you
shouldn't slow down and stare, but you do it anyway.
I guess that makes kam our own personal drunk who crossed the median while doing 85m/h without his seatbelt on.
Call it naivity. I hoped my post would be the last one in this dreadful thread. I was obviously wrong.
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by Dreamtwister » Tue 07 Nov 2006, 19:12:42
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ingenuity_Gap', 'I') hoped my post would be the last one in this dreadful thread. I was obviously wrong.
Oh I an't just pass up a challenge like that!

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by SDC » Wed 08 Nov 2006, 01:57:49
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('da23', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SDC', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')ow can the Peak Oil Aware be Anti-War?
It's pretty simple, really, I believe that it was a complete tactical faliure. I'm not nessicarily against resource wars persay, just against botching them.
Anyone noticed that most of the war cheerleaders can't spell
kam, don't you think it would be more productive to work for a solution to the problem rather than trying to justify the second 'final solution'.
Let me put this a different way. I am not "for" war in the way that rightists are "for" war. War cheerleader is a completely misplaced label. What I meant by that statement was going into Iraq in the first place was a tactical failure in a larger conflict. I do believe that if it is the only way to keep the American populace alive for the next 1-10 years, war is justified. However, diplomacy and subterfuge would probably have worked far better in this case. Not only that, but they went about the war entirely wrong. I have never been in any military force, yet I can see that.
They dropped thousands of bombs on various cities, in order to destroy military installments (which they didn't - they only destroyed innocent civilians), while their gargantuan armored force could have taken out those very military installations without breaking a sweat. Secondly, they're keeping said gigantic armored force there, which can't do shit against an insurgency.
Basically, I am for war if more people will die if it is not fought than if it is - a condition the Iraq war does not meet.
Why am I for resource wars? Well, this is something to be explained another time, but I think that it is the one and only way to achieve a soft landing. Whoever doesn't control a large enough stake in the oil will come crashing down with nothing to break their fall.
As for my spelling - Anyone noticed that the grammar pedants love ad-homs?

I might be wrong.