*shock horror!* A convert to Islam was plotting a terrorist attack!

[Edwardo Piet]

YES YES YESSS. I completely agree with you and this is what I've always said. Why is America special? We are not. I have no idea why America has this ellitist attitude. We are just as fucked as everyone else.

Bingo!

I don't see america as special or good enough to have nuclear weapons. So far the US is the only nation to have used nuclear weapons on others. I sometimes get the impretion that the US is in charge or something. Like they know it all.

I completely agree.

And to attempt to expand on that...On the matter of patriotism as a whole - do you know what I think?...I think it's a bunch of shit. Complete total and utter, plain, pure, bullshit - in a bag. A pile of bollocks, an entire packet of a whole load of balls. It just really is total toshy ballsy, ballsy, ballsy balls - IMO.

Why do I think this? Simply because: Why should you consider your own country is in anyway special (or act like it is) simply because you're born there? Or why should you act like it's "Better" (define better for a start). Why be proud of a genetic accident? And if it's not pride and merely 'happiness' or 'gratitude' that's being expressed...then that's certainly not patriotism how I understand it anyway!!

Patriotism just seems like a form of national arrogance in itself to me, how I understand it. The degree of how it's expressed just seems to determine the degree of how bad it is I think.

Sorry if that's a digression. In which case - other mods feel free to edit of course (or tell me to do it myself if you prefer )

Nuclear disarmament would be best for us all.

And I of course - totally agree with that statement too. In fact I think that it's a statement that really should be one of those things that 'go without saying'. It should be obvious IMO.

If no one had nuclear weapons then if anyone thinks that's not better then perhaps I think that's about as warped a moral opinion (and/or attitude(?)) as you can have.


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