Benazir Bhutto assassinated
This sucks. :sad:
Benazir Bhutto assassinated
This sucks. :sad:
Why is it always the nice ones that get assassinated? Wait, don't answer that.
The severed arm perfectly acquitted itself, because of the simplicity of its wishes and its total lack of doubt.
Didn't see that one coming.Quoting Antoine (view post)
So, are we better off with this country as our ally or what?
Not good.
This will most likely be traced back to the Pakistani military which our government currently has a mild alignment with. So if we take action against Musharraf and his ilk, Pakistan goes into chaos as there's no one else to take over and the military is, for better or worse, a stabilizing force.
If we look the other way, the country remains stable at the expense of public and international perception that we're supporting a dictatorship and assassination over democracy.
Bad.
Nothing new.Quoting shaun (view post)
We need to relinquish our influence over Middle East affairs, period.
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That's pretty depressing. Did anybody else get a perverse sense of being aware of history unfolding upon hearing the news?
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Pakistan is Asia really, but yeah, in an ideal world, I'd love for us to be removed from the affairs of other nations. In practice though, the area can easily devolve into chaos because for some reason they're far too eager to relinquish control to extremists of all sorts.
Or maybe we back out and an extremist doesn't take over. Maybe they'll just get an incompetent, like Mugabe, who's managed to completely destroy a once fruitful country in 15 years.
The world ignores Zimbabwe though because they have little of value to offer. Obviously the Middle East and the world's energy needs have to be handled a little more delicately.
we're damned if we do, damned if we don't.Quoting Rowland (view post)
Heh, "delicately" is one word that you will not find anywhere in the United States government's dictionary.Quoting shaun (view post)
The severed arm perfectly acquitted itself, because of the simplicity of its wishes and its total lack of doubt.
Snarky reply or not, it's the truth. You don't leave the most valuable resource outside of air and water in the hands of extremists if you ever want to see that resource again.
Yeah, it sucks being the only country that relies on oil.Quoting shaun (view post)
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It's obviously a global issue and not US-centric.
The rest of the industrial world, except maybe Russia since they're pretty self sufficient, should have just as much an interest in keeping the Middle East out of anarchy as the US. Leaving the region to fend for themselves is only likely to accelerate that process.
It all comes down to people being unable or unwilling to govern themselves. And we wouldn't have this interventionist foreign policy problem if the oil was underneath Belgium.
You've said some crazy things, but this one...Quoting Rowland (view post)
It was sarcasm. I'm just tired of this notion that only the US has stakes in the oil crisis, and as such, it is our duty to go in there and control it. As far as I'm concerned, most of this radical extremist hullabaloo is a smokescreen. While we drain our resources and international goodwill over there, our nation is on the verge of an economic meltdown, with India/China/et al. poised to reap the benefits. If anything, our presence in the Middle East, choosing sides and intervening in various conflicts, is only exasperating the situation.Quoting Ezee E (view post)
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I really, really, really hate people sometimes. Individually, they can be wonderful. Put those same people in a group, give them a doctrine (religious, political, whatever) that demonizes other groups, and they are worse than animals.
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But where's the news?Quoting transmogrifier (view post)
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5...4Pz91XcvoFenyA
The SUNROOF of the car killed Bhutto, not bullets. This is not a typo or an attempt at a joke.
Mann, al-Qaeda is good.
The severed arm perfectly acquitted itself, because of the simplicity of its wishes and its total lack of doubt.
Y'all be safe tonight.....
http://www.startribune.com/local/12937007.html
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
I'm satisfied after 6-7 drinks. These masochistic people who just keep going and going baffle me... I got over those sorts of drinking tendencies when I was 16.Quoting Scar (view post)
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Hard Times (Hill) ****½
Another 48 Hrs. (Hill) ***
/48 Hrs./ (Hill) ***½
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (Besson) ***
/Unknown/ (Collet-Serra) ***½
Animal (Simmons) **
My tolerance has dropped significantly over the past several months. Six beers, and I'm good.Quoting Rowland (view post)
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
I work at the firehouse tonight.
I wonder how many IVs I'll get to give since the Medics tend to let us new guys put IVs on the annoying drunks since we aren't great at it yet.
I found this tidbit on IMDb. Interesting...
Swinton Leading a 'Double Life'
Contagion (Soderbergh, 2011) - 6.5
The Descendants (Payne, 2011) - 7.5
Midnight in Paris (Allen, 2011) - 5
Margin Call (Chandor, 2011) - 6.5
The Ides of March (Clooney, 2011) - 5
http://www.startribune.com/local/west/13677002.html
Fucking kids.
EDIT: I'd suspend everyone of those kids that walked out.
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
I'm with the kids on this one.Quoting Scar (view post)