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RE: Russian forces occupy the Crimea.
March 5, 2014 at 1:59 pm
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(March 4, 2014 at 8:33 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: America is *weird*. Never won a war, but entered a lot of them, just to face internal opposition and retreating like mutts with their tails between their legs.
I don't know why anyone even takes you seriously. Worst world power ever in history. I would think that people would be much more favorably inclined towards a super power that didn't win very often. It may be that the USA is more popular than it is taken seriously, which happens when you have a country with a lot of money and disastrous spending habits.
In any case, I don't see what we would do militarily against Russia. Are there any nations that would, at this point, agree to allow the USA to drag them into another war? I can't imagine that there would be popular support for sending armed forces abroad after we have spent the last decade complaining that we aren't bringing the troops home quickly enough.
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RE: Russian forces occupy the Crimea.
March 5, 2014 at 2:01 pm
(March 5, 2014 at 1:59 pm)Tonus Wrote: (March 4, 2014 at 8:33 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: America is *weird*. Never won a war, but entered a lot of them, just to face internal opposition and retreating like mutts with their tails between their legs.
I don't know why anyone even takes you seriously. Worst world power ever in history. I would think that people would be much more favorably inclined towards a super power that didn't win very often. It may be that the USA is more popular than it is taken seriously, which happens when you have a country with a lot of money and disastrous spending habits.
In any case, I don't see what we would do militarily against Russia. Are there any nations that would, at this point, agree to allow the USA to drag them into another war? I can't imagine that there would be popular support for sending armed forces abroad after we have spent the last decade complaining that we aren't bringing the troops home quickly enough.
Yes, probably all the countries we bankroll.
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RE: Russian forces occupy the Crimea.
March 5, 2014 at 2:04 pm
(March 5, 2014 at 3:16 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: [and] Japan ... you ... force them into surrender.
What exactly is your definition of winning a war? Getting them to do the polka?
No, your definition is whatever way you have to twist the truth so your previous point isn't shown wrong. It just makes you look even more pathetic.
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RE: Russian forces occupy the Crimea.
March 5, 2014 at 2:07 pm
(March 5, 2014 at 1:50 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: (March 5, 2014 at 1:47 pm)A Theist Wrote: Hey, I was just trying to help the kid. He seems so unhappy here in this evil country, I thought maybe he'd be happier moving "somewhere else" that's more to his liking.
I'm sure I would. Since you're so concerned with/for EVERYONE ELSE, you'll be paying for my plane ticket, yes?
Well Hell's Bells! If the price of a plane ticket's all that's keeping you here, sure, I'll be glad to help you with that! That was "one-way", right?
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RE: Russian forces occupy the Crimea.
March 5, 2014 at 2:13 pm
(March 5, 2014 at 2:07 pm)A Theist Wrote: (March 5, 2014 at 1:50 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: I'm sure I would. Since you're so concerned with/for EVERYONE ELSE, you'll be paying for my plane ticket, yes?
Well Hell's Bells! If the price of a plane ticket's all that's keeping you here, sure, I'll be glad to help you with that! That was "one-way", right?
Yep. Jamaica please. 
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RE: Russian forces occupy the Crimea.
March 5, 2014 at 2:30 pm
(March 5, 2014 at 2:13 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: (March 5, 2014 at 2:07 pm)A Theist Wrote: Well Hell's Bells! If the price of a plane ticket's all that's keeping you here, sure, I'll be glad to help you with that! That was "one-way", right?
Yep. Jamaica please.
Jamaica it is. Kick back and enjoy the Calypso music! 
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RE: Russian forces occupy the Crimea.
March 5, 2014 at 2:42 pm
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RE: Russian forces occupy the Crimea.
March 5, 2014 at 2:56 pm
(March 5, 2014 at 2:42 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: (March 5, 2014 at 2:30 pm)A Theist Wrote: Jamaica it is. Kick back and enjoy the Calypso music!
You mean no more of this ingenuity?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN1iI-DaJNw
I can't see the video. My OS won't pick it up. I run one of the Linux programs.
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Re: Russian forces occupy the Crimea.
March 5, 2014 at 4:28 pm
My linux OS plays it fine
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RE: Russian forces occupy the Crimea.
March 5, 2014 at 4:52 pm
(March 5, 2014 at 9:34 am)A Theist Wrote: The left are blind sheep of an intolerant and naive ideology. They live in a bubble world where all is the way they imagine it to be, not as the real world actually is. That's how they govern. They can't imagine why anyone would think differently from them. That's why they try to intimidate, ridicule, and smear anyone who voices a different opinion from theirs.
I'd say all the same things above except I'd replace "left" with "right". I'd love to have a rational discussion about the serious problems our nation faces but the GOP has completely lost its mind and lives in a completely alternate reality. You seem to feel the same about me.
So at least one of us is completely wrong about the other.
I was once a conservative Republican.
Were you ever a liberal Democrat?
So which one of us is really closed minded?
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The word "treason" is often used by the GOP against liberals. This has been Newt Gingrich's contribution to our political discourse. So another question for you:
Which political party very recently, last October, literally came close to destroying this country as a political stunt?
If the hardline GOP had its way, we'd have deliberately and willfully defaulted on our nation's debt, not because we couldn't pay our bills but because we would have decided not to. The result would have been a total collapse of our economy that would have made 2008 look like a minor correction. Our credit would have been demolished. The US would have been transformed from a world economic superpower to a 3rd world country overnight. They'd have burned down the country and danced on its remains.
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