Tweet
It's been going on for the better part of a decade or more. Who the hell really cares?
-
I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio -
Exactly.Originally posted by Spiffor
*horrible memories of Rwanda*
The world community needs to go in and establish peace. This is yet another reason why the UN needs some type of peacemaking force that has the strength to assert itself. There would be problems, but anything is better than ignoring what's going on.Golfing since 67Comment
-
A plan similar to this could also help in Nigeria if the muslims there get any big ideas (*cough* Sharia Law *cough*).
As long as they don't engage in genocide or whatnot, can't they decide on their own laws?“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
-
1. The majority of Nigerians are ChristianOriginally posted by Imran Siddiqui
As long as they don't engage in genocide or whatnot, can't they decide on their own laws?
2. Muslims in the north are forcing Sharia on non-muslims there.
3. Sharia violates civil rightsComment
-
When countries intervene for humanitarian purposes, I am all for it then. Sorry -- you don't have me cornered with hypocrisy.Originally posted by Verto
And if we did intervene, we would have protests about American imperialism, American policing, American soldiers dying for oil, bla bla bla.
If the UN is so concerned about human rights, it should intervene.A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.Comment
-
1. The majority of Nigerians are Christian
2. Muslims in the north are forcing Sharia on non-muslims there.
3. Sharia violates civil rights
So you want to go take out every dictatorship in the world or any government where the minority is in charge? Are you ready to declare war on China?
And so what if Sharia violates our civil rights? Are we going to go war over our version of civil rights? I don't think so.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
-
Imran is wise.
If you want to impose our version of civil liberties on the world by force, saddle up and get ready to invade just about everyone. Including France (headscarf ban, anyone?).
Hmm, well, maybe the idea has merit...
-Arriangrog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!
The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.Comment
-
Peacekeepers.
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
-BokononComment
-
To do what? You havw to have peace in order to have something to keep.I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator RubioComment
-
Stop being obtuse. I just mean a UN intervention."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
-BokononComment
-
Because they are doing such a bang up job in the Congo loosing control of whole cities?I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator RubioComment
-
Since US diplomatic pressure has been instrumental in ending (sort of) the war in the South, I would still hold some hope that pressurizing Khartoum can help. Hopefully before two million people die.Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- ElokComment
-
So because there are some incidents where it really is not feasible to take out a dictatorship, we should not try to do when it is much more likely chance for a successful intervention?Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
1. The majority of Nigerians are Christian
2. Muslims in the north are forcing Sharia on non-muslims there.
3. Sharia violates civil rights
So you want to go take out every dictatorship in the world or any government where the minority is in charge? Are you ready to declare war on China?
And so what if Sharia violates our civil rights? Are we going to go war over our version of civil rights? I don't think so.A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.Comment
-
Since some of you asked for a link, heres a Beeb article on the statement at the G8 summit. It includes some background.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3794041.stm"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
-
Last night on NPR, they (NGOs) said there were "only" 150,000 refugees from Darfur.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
Comment