Re: Balkan situation is only stable while pressure is applie

Post #33,174 by wharris2 3/22/02 2:30:09 PM Reply	Re: Balkan situation is only stable while pressure is applie But they're too busy whining about those ugly Americans to actually do much of anything. Another reason to feed them their own home-built shit. We've saved Europe twice (you can argue about how much our involvement in WW1, but no question that we did contribute there - but there's no question we won WW2), yet they seem to be ever increasingly anti-American. France, in particular, has anti-Americanism up their collective butts. Next time Germany or anyone else invades you, suck it up, you deserve it. Me, I'd apply the same to the House of Saudi and our other so-called allies in the mideast. Kuwait? You don't like us? OK. (withdraw all troops). Saudi Arabia? People celebrating in the streets at the bombing of the World Trade Center? OK, withdraw all troops, or, as Jerry Pournelle suggests, raze the ground upon which any such celebration occurred, salt it, and make a monument visible from orbit. Sadaam Hussein, we don't like you, but this time, we don't mind too terribly much if you move in on the area. I'm getting a bit tired of political expediency. If your citizens hate us, with state-supported publications egging them on, then you don't deserve our support. The hell with you, Egypt, Saudi, Kuwait. We have one true ally in the Mideast. Israel, like it or not. "I didn't know you could drive to Europe." -- An eavesdropper, piping in when he overheard a conversation about someone who had driven to Montreal.
Post #33,194 by Simon_Jester 3/22/02 5:56:29 PM Reply	Interesting... We have one true ally in the Mideast. Israel, like it or not. Hmm...hasn't Israel spied on us and (to be frank) stolen Nuke technology from us? (They ain't that great an ally.) (And there is a strong history of Saudia Arabian support for the US.)
Post #33,195 by wharris2 3/22/02 6:01:40 PM Reply	Re: Interesting... Most (all?) of the people who bombed the World Trade Center were Saudis. The House of Saudi has financed the AlQuada heavily. These are our friends? Israel has spied on us, true. (Smack'em for that.) But they haven't poured money on terrorist organizations. "I didn't know you could drive to Europe." -- An eavesdropper, piping in when he overheard a conversation about someone who had driven to Montreal.
Post #33,209 by a6l6e6x 3/22/02 9:13:44 PM Reply	And don'r forget the USS Liberty in 1967! In 1967 Israel deliberately (i.e. no mistake) attacked the [link\|http://home.cfl.rr.com/gidusko/liberty/\|USS Liberty] a US Navy intelligence ship. Alex "Never express yourself more clearly than you think." -- Neils Bohr (1885-1962)
Post #33,233 by marlowe 3/23/02 11:34:39 AM Reply	Beggars can't be choosers There aren't a lot of democracies to choose from in the Middle East. In fact, unless you count the region of Anatolia as part of the Middle East, there probably aren't any besides Israel. We must make do with what we have. [link\|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/index.html\|http://www.angelfir...e/index.html] Truth is that which is the case. Accept no substitutes. If competence is considered "hubris" then may I and my country always be as "arrogant" as we can possibly manage.
Post #33,236 by Brandioch 3/23/02 12:44:12 PM Reply	Is that why we hosted the Taliban, in Texas, in 1997.... but they are a terribly fundamentalist repressive threat to our security in 2001? BTW, did you see how they treat their women? So we'll find an ally in a group that has executed 3000 prisoners in the past. We must make do with what we have. Fascinating. Truly fascinating. I mean, it would be hard to imagine us doing anything worse than what we've done. To quote your sig back at you. If competence is considered "hubris" then may I and my country always be as "arrogant" as we can possibly manage. I see "hubris" and "arrogant" but I don't see "competence" in this little history. Maybe you might try replacing "competence" with "ignorance" in your sig.

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