Why Do Western Nations Nerf Their Military Responses?

[Wezil]

Saddam was fine when he was your genocide guy (the Kurds you referred to).

Egypt and SA are both notoriously brutal regimes and receive large amounts of US patronage. Hell, SA can provide the attackers for 9/11 and still get a free pass.

[Thoth]

As to whether you will leave when your "US approved" Iraqi government asks? Probably, since they won't ask until you tell them.

"Don't ask, don't tell"

[Wezil]

Eco -

Please for the love of god that I don't believe in

QUIT DANS'ing YOUR DAMN POSTS!

[giblets]

They have no resources and no democratic infrastructure (at least Saddam had sham elections so that some tradition and institution existed).

North Korea has sham elections. Once again you're uninformed.

[Ecofarm]

Egypt and SA are both notoriously brutal regimes and receive large amounts of US patronage. Hell, SA can provide the attackers for 9/11 and still get a free pass.

Some countries we fight, some countries we invade, some we engage economically and some serve as a "least of evils" so that we have influence in the region. In case you were unaware, diplomacy is a big tool box and to think that only one tool can work best all the time is just plain stupid.

[giblets]

No matter what the US does, pedotard sees no fault in it.

[Wezil]

Your diplomacy is clearly based upon economics yet you want us to accept your invasions of sovereign countries are for moral reasons. Doesn't wash.

[Ecofarm]

No matter what the US does, pedotard sees no fault in it.

That's not true. See my thesis.


You know what, nevermind. I'm not supposed to be addressing your retarded BS. This is the last time.

[Wezil]

Would that be the thesis I've seen you distancing yourself from in other threads?

[Ecofarm]

I didn't "distance myself" from it. I admitted it is not perfect. There's a difference.

I stand behind it 100%, even if it is not perfect.

I said my views have become more moderate, not that they have fundamentally changed.

[Wezil]

Yes, I saw how those views were thoroughly trashed. I've seen enough of your arguments on this board to imagine how said thesis would read.

You are thoroughly entertaining just not at all convincing.

[Ecofarm]

My thesis passed with honors (3 of 40 submissions were so honored).


When you write a thesis and it passes with honors then you can talk sht about mine. You haven't done sht to talk about, so you deride other's work.

If you are such a big man with all the right answers, let's see your full name and a link to work. Otherwise, STFU you little coward.


So...

Are you a snivelling little cockroach or a man? Let's see. Give us your name and give us some of your work to criticize.

[Wezil]

I'm not deriding it. I haven't read it and don't intend to. I'm not that bored.

Think about it - you've been here a few short months and have already earned the tag "Ecotard". I've been here for 10+years and have disagreed with most everyone at the site at one time or other. Somehow I have managed to avoid being called a "****" by everyone except KH (who calls everyone ****) and you (earlier in the thread). Drake has called me some comparable things but he's just a KH-lite so its no big deal.

How does this happen Eco?

[giblets]

How high does the university of florida rank in ecology?

[bc1871]

Now, if I was in Obama's shoes, I would take Iraq's oil and tell them to **** off!