That's because you're too stupid to understand. It is an established fact that most media is written at a grade six level. I usually write at a higher level, besides which I am Canadian and therefore better educated than most red state Yanks.
Its time to wake up and realize we are at war with Islam George Bush may have
been right for the wrong reason. If the moderate Muslims do not stand up and
demand an end to their own radicals behaviour this thing is going to spill over
and it will be ugly at home and overseas. It ramps up with each attack. That is
what the nut cases want. All I hear from the Islamic community thus far is silence.
That's because you're too stupid to understand. It is an established fact that most media is written at a grade six level. I usually write at a higher level, besides which I am Canadian and therefore better educated than most red state Yanks.
WLDB a few soldiers serving in the military is not nearly enough,
the clergy the citizens in communities must speak out. They must
be prepared to point out the trouble makers as well. Not just in
North America but in the countries where they live. People must
rise up and demand change.
The people of the west have had enough if the people can't deal
with their own issues in their own countries and here at home
people in the west will demand action. People who have a lifestyle
that threatens the future of my grand kids and great grand kids
are not going to be too welcome. What I don't like is people will be
divided and in turmoil this is not good for anyone. Muslims have to
take care of their problem and report their religious criminals
No a few soldiers in the military is not even a blip on the radar screen
Really? Or because they were crazy?
Too true. As a young man in the navy I recall always hearing media reports about countries alleged to be Communist supports who were "puppet" governments. Of course this sounded grossly unfair and manipulative and made me feel anger against the communist leaders - as it was intended to do. By 1978 I had returned to school and started to major in history.
One morning I attended a class in which the professor lectured on the Vietnam War with reference to the many uncomfortable truths exposed by the Pentagon Papers. It was a total surprise. It turned out that most of the truths that had been the foundation of my political and historic beliefs to then had been not only untrue, but deliberate lies and propaganda.
Ho Chi Minh was on the Allied side in WW2 against Japan. He aided the allies in return for a promise of Vietnamese autonomy after the war. The US and Britain agreed. After the war ended the French said no we want our colony back, so America turned the Jap POW’s loose under Allied officers against the Vietnamese. Eventually France tried to run the country as its old colony but failed. That resulted in their military defeat by General Giap at Dien Bien Phu.
The Vietnamese demanded freedom. A north-south split developed in Vietnam in which America, having already sided against Ho Chi Minh in the north, sided with the minority in South Vietnam. A demilitarized zone was set up half way down the country And elections were called to determine wither the government of the north or south would form the central government. It became obvious that the north would win so the US and France cancelled the elections.
The Vietnamese refused to be satisfied with half a country. Even in the south the government could not have won a free election. China was not the driving factor, Vietnamese nationalism was. Eventually America had to giver up and within three years the south fell. Within two years after that Vietnam was at war with China.
The war in Vietnam developed serious strains of anti-Americanism, but that was because America butted in after breaking its WW2 promises. The Vietnam War was primarily a civil war. Every foreigner who became involved from 1945 on was bloodied. The Japs, the French, the Americans and finally the Chinese.
The biggest surprise was not so much that America was proved wrong. The biggest surprise was that so much of what the US claimed as true was lies. There is a huge difference between someone who has been wrong and someone who lies to you. All of a sudden everything they have ever said is open to question, and whenever their interpretation is disagreed with the presumption arises that nothing they say can be trusted. So what happened next? Gradually everything went back to normal. Old lies were forgotten. Then along came Iraq. Dubya not only lied America into a totally immoral and unnecessary war, it was obvious from the outset that he was doing so.
So this is where we are today. The Cold War is gone. Communism as an ideological threat is gone - if it was ever a serious threat to start with. Russia is a sometimes-ally. Powers that did not used to effect us much like Pakistan, India, China and the ME, are now rising threats. We are still part of the old NATO alliance, but the strongest member is ideologically unstable and economically unreliable. It really is a whole new chapter in world history and we are on the losing side. The root cause is exactly what the old hard-line communists said it would be - greed. Most of the losses have been caused by US Republicans since 1980. Since 1980 the middle class in every western nation has shrunk. Db is absolutely correct when she says that the economic war is being conducted mostly against us. Invented terrorists are being used in a way taught in every Political Science 101 course, to divert domestic attention away from corrupt internal government.
Thats like blaming all Christians for the KKK or the WBC.
Absolutely correct. The last thing we want to do as a nation and a culture is to reduce ourselves to their level.
It's political nut cases. Do you know any political nut cases who are obsessed with the left/right malarkey created to divide and conquer?No because they are killing Christians and yelling Allahu Akbar (Allah is the greatest) ... pretty good sign the killings are in the name of Allah...
This is just a faction of nutters, but it does not paint Islam in a favorable light.
Seems a handy phrase to remember; "Aminah bint Wahb." Muhammad's Mother :roll:
Absolutely correct. The last thing we want to do as a nation and a culture is to reduce ourselves to their level.
It's political nut cases. Do you know any political nut cases who are obsessed with the left/right malarkey created to divide and conquer?
If they yelled yabbadabbadoo would it change anything?
I think Tober likes you. Heard that today on the Forum rumor mill.LOL This coming from a guy that calls all "Yanks" stupid, and is bios against anyone from the United States.. but hey, if it's an Islamist terrorist, we must do out best not to offend.
Christ!!! :roll: :lol:
Well I guess Tober is a Camel Jockey Troll...
I know of one.. Obama.
"If he were my son."
Your history prof should have flunked you.
There was no promise to Ho Chi Minh from the US gov't................although his OSS handler, a guy with the unlikely name of Archimedes Patti, fully expected the USA to back Ho's new gov't and an independent Vietnam. However, anti-colonialism was FDR's thing.....and he died in April of 1945. Truman saw things differently.
The Red Scare in the USA prompted the American gov't to support de Gaulle's gov't in France, as a way to thwart communism in that country. no matter what that prima donna took on. Unfortunately, de Gaulle wanted French Indo China back.
You are correct on one thing: US involvement in Vietnam was a disaster from the end of WW II forward. But it was based on what the USA saw as larger issues, especially during and after Korea.
BTW, as an aside, Matthew Ridgeway (who replaced MacArthur in Korea) was sent to look over the situation in Vietnam in the late 50s. He said it would take 2 million troops to pacify the place, and a million occupation troops to keep it that way.........in other words, don't touch it!!! He was right.
Ther idea that the USA is "ideologically unstable" is ridiculous, as is the idea that the USSR was never a threat.
Invented terrorists???
Tell that to the families of several dozen dead in Kenya, or the families of almost 2700 dead from 911, or the families of the 79 dead in a Pakistani Christian church yesterday, or the families of the victims of the more than 20,000 deadly Islamic terror attacks world-wide
since 2001. That is 4 a DAY.
Your history prof should have flunked you.
There was no promise to Ho Chi Minh from the US gov't................although his OSS handler, a guy with the unlikely name of Archimedes Patti, fully expected the USA to back Ho's new gov't and an independent Vietnam. However, anti-colonialism was FDR's thing.....and he died in April of 1945. Truman saw things differently.
The Red Scare in the USA prompted the American gov't to support de Gaulle's gov't in France, as a way to thwart communism in that country. no matter what that prima donna took on. Unfortunately, de Gaulle wanted French Indo China back.
You are correct on one thing: US involvement in Vietnam was a disaster from the end of WW II forward. But it was based on what the USA saw as larger issues, especially during and after Korea.
BTW, as an aside, Matthew Ridgeway (who replaced MacArthur in Korea) was sent to look over the situation in Vietnam in the late 50s. He said it would take 2 million troops to pacify the place, and a million occupation troops to keep it that way.........in other words, don't touch it!!! He was right.
Ther idea that the USA is "ideologically unstable" is ridiculous, as is the idea that the USSR was never a threat.
Invented terrorists???
Tell that to the families of several dozen dead in Kenya, or the families of almost 2700 dead from 911, or the families of the 79 dead in a Pakistani Christian church yesterday, or the families of the victims of the more than 20,000 deadly Islamic terror attacks world-wide since 2001. That is 4 a DAY.
Wow ANOTHER show of ignorance from the tober troll.. Goober is from Alberta, not a Yank Red State moron .. duh.. I guess geography isn't your strong point..
As far a Canada's education, you are correct there.. Canada is 5th overall.
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Sad turn of events about the gunmen.. 1 was a Canadian Citizen and 3 from the United States..