PAKISTANI sues JetBlue! WOW!!!

[Flyer1015]

Me too. Why don't you a$$es step up to the plate? Take your cult (religion) back.

Did you sleep through 9/11?
If the world had a colon, Mecca would be the entrance.

Muslims, may they burn in hell

Listen to you all !

You're using the sad excuse of 9/11 and the actions of 19 men to collectively group an entire religion of 1.4 billion people as terrorists.

Yes, there are many muslim extremists, but it's only a few percentage of the 1.4 billion muslims who are like that.


In America, there are Muslim doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers, businessmen, airline pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, and any other trade you can imagine.

There are Muslims serving in the US Air Froce, Army, Navy and the Marines.

There are US Muslim armed services members who are serving our country by fighting the war in Iraq and Afghanistan right now, just so your bigoted a$$es can go to bed safely tonight.



Grow up, people!

 

[brainhurts]

Listen to you all !

You're using the sad excuse of 9/11 and the actions of 19 men to collectively group an entire religion of 1.4 billion people as terrorists.

Yes, there are many muslim extremists, but it's only a few percentage of the 1.4 billion muslims who are like that.


In America, there are Muslim doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers, businessmen, airline pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, and any other trade you can imagine.

There are Muslims serving in the US Air Froce, Army, Navy and the Marines.

There are US Muslim armed services members who are serving our country by fighting the war in Iraq and Afghanistan right now, just so your bigoted a$$es can go to bed safely tonight.



Grow up, people!

Well, it would be great if they would step up to the plate.

 

[Flyer1015]

Well, it would be great if they would step up to the plate.

Truth of the matter is, you won't see anything like that on the US media.


You just won't.

Why should Fox (or even CNN) waste their airtime showing an Imam who calls for an end to radical Islam and extremism ?


They just won't. Right now, they "have" to show the radical terrorists blowing stuff up, and extremists chanting anti-American things.


An imam could send a request to Fox News to go on air so he could get openly speak out against radicals/extremist muslims, but he won't be allowed to. Fox wouldn't waste their time with that.



Next, you need to realize that these radical terrorists/extremists, would want you as a Christian American, dead, just as fast as they would a Muslim American.

There were Muslims in WTC who died on 9/11. These fanatics don't care.



I honestly don't think it would make any big difference if CAIR got on TV tomorrow and denounced all radical Musilm terrorists/extremists.
Nor would it make any difference if hundreds of Imams also got on TV and denounced all radical/fanatical muslims.

If anything, it would make bin Laden hate America even more, and if anything, they would recruit even faster.

 

[VABB]

Listen to you all !

You're using the sad excuse of 9/11 and the actions of 19 men to collectively group an entire religion of 1.4 billion people as terrorists.

Yes, there are many muslim extremists, but it's only a few percentage of the 1.4 billion muslims who are like that.


In America, there are Muslim doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers, businessmen, airline pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, and any other trade you can imagine.

There are Muslims serving in the US Air Froce, Army, Navy and the Marines.

There are US Muslim armed services members who are serving our country by fighting the war in Iraq and Afghanistan right now, just so your bigoted a$$es can go to bed safely tonight.



Grow up, people!

Yes, there are many muslim extremists, but it's only a few percentage of the 1.4 billion muslims who are like that.

Since few usually equates to the number 3, let's assume that 3% of the 1.4 billion muslims are extremists. 3% of 1.4 billion equates to 42 million. That's not a big deal to you??

There are Muslims serving in the US Air Froce, Army, Navy and the Marines.

Wasn't it just a few years ago that a muslim serving in the Air Force killed some of his fellow airmen in the name of islam?

You're using the sad excuse of 9/11 and the actions of 19 men to collectively group an entire religion of 1.4 billion people as terrorists.

How about the USS Cole? How about the Madrid train bombings? How about the London subway attacks? How about the train bombings in India? What do they all have in common? Their violence originates in islam.

 

[Flyer1015]

42 million is too high, I should have said a lower percentage amount. Maybe 1%, if not lower.

Wasn't it just a few years ago that a muslim serving in the Air Force killed some of his fellow airmen in the name of islam?

A couple armed services member raped an Iraqi 15 year old in the name of "horny-ness" and then shot and killed her, after of course murdering the parents and the sibling.

You can always point at any large group, and find an extremely rare case.

How about the USS Cole? How about the Madrid train bombings? How about the London subway attacks? How about the train bombings in India? What do they all have in common? Their violence originates in islam.

The violence here is political, not just religious.

USS Cole was attacked because they didn't like a US warship stationed in their own homeland.

Al-Qaeda had announced that they would attack any ally to the US in the war against Iraq, so England being ally #1, they got attacked.

Notice that countries that leave the rest of the world alone, like, Brazil, Argentina, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Chile, etc. don't have any terrorist problems.


As for your examples give above, how about:

How about Air India 747 bombing in the mid 80s? Sikh terrorists, not Muslims.

How about the Iranian Airbus shot down over the Gulf? Mistake, whoops.


How about Israel "accidently" bombing one of our own US Navy ships?

 

[Blue Dude]

Yes, there are many muslim extremists, but it's only a few percentage of the 1.4 billion muslims who are like that.

Then they should have no trouble taking back their religion to keep the twisted few from smearing the name of Allah. Unfortunately, they have remained by and large silent. Either they are intimidated by the lunatic, violent fringe, or they remain silent knowing that the violent fringe observes the Quran better than they do. Either way, we have a problem and can't count on the silent majority to clean their own house. Once again, we have to do it for them and be despised for it. Since we can't distinguish between the silent but peaceful majority and the violent minority (and those who harbor the same), we are faced with degrading our own way of life by curtailing civil liberties or we can expect having our way of life degraded for us by living in perpetual fear of the next domestic terrorist attack. What's right? I don't know, but I will say that in times of national emergency, civil liberties have been curtailed for some or all the people and thus we survived. Sometimes we went too far, but I think the current thought that our way of life isn't worth that price is going way too far in the other direction. PC will kill this country more surely than any external threat.

We can fight or we can give up entirely and subject ourselves and our children to dhimmitude. I don't think there's a middle ground anymore. For sure we won't get any quarter from the violent fringe. They aren't going to leave us alone and this is just the beginning.

 

[scoreboard]

Truth of the matter is, you won't see anything like that on the US media.


You just won't.

Why should Fox (or even CNN) waste their airtime showing an Imam who calls for an end to radical Islam and extremism ?


They just won't. Right now, they "have" to show the radical terrorists blowing stuff up, and extremists chanting anti-American things.


An imam could send a request to Fox News to go on air so he could get openly speak out against radicals/extremist muslims, but he won't be allowed to. Fox wouldn't waste their time with that.



Next, you need to realize that these radical terrorists/extremists, would want you as a Christian American, dead, just as fast as they would a Muslim American.

There were Muslims in WTC who died on 9/11. These fanatics don't care.



I honestly don't think it would make any big difference if CAIR got on TV tomorrow and denounced all radical Musilm terrorists/extremists.
Nor would it make any difference if hundreds of Imams also got on TV and denounced all radical/fanatical muslims.

If anything, it would make bin Laden hate America even more, and if anything, they would recruit even faster.

Not what he is talking about ace, saying stop, and actually stepping up to the plate and making it stop are two very deadly differences. You will probably not see any part of the Islamic mainstream ever step up and take care of business. WHY? Gods will. Bullshiittee.

 

[VABB]

42 million is too high, I should have said a lower percentage amount. Maybe 1%, if not lower.




A couple armed services member raped an Iraqi 15 year old in the name of "horny-ness" and then shot and killed her, after of course murdering the parents and the sibling.

You can always point at any large group, and find an extremely rare case.






The violence here is political, not just religious.

USS Cole was attacked because they didn't like a US warship stationed in their own homeland.

Al-Qaeda had announced that they would attack any ally to the US in the war against Iraq, so England being ally #1, they got attacked.

Notice that countries that leave the rest of the world alone, like, Brazil, Argentina, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Chile, etc. don't have any terrorist problems.


As for your examples give above, how about:

How about Air India 747 bombing in the mid 80s? Sikh terrorists, not Muslims.

How about the Iranian Airbus shot down over the Gulf? Mistake, whoops.


How about Israel "accidently" bombing one of our own US Navy ships?

42 million is too high, I should have said a lower percentage amount. Maybe 1%, if not lower.

So when the numbers "look too high" you just say let's lower the percentage?

A couple armed services member raped an Iraqi 15 year old in the name of "horny-ness" and then shot and killed her, after of course murdering the parents and the sibling.

Ah, but this topic wasn't centered around our service members now, was it? I believe the topic was islam and it's violence. Now, let's look at the facts one more time. In 2003, a muslim serving in the Air Force murdered his fellow airmen in the name islam. Correct????

You can always point at any large group, and find an extremely rare case.

The problem with your above statement is that violence and islam go hand-in-hand like wet and water. Violence (terrorism) is hardly a rare case with islam.

The violence here is political, not just religious.

USS Cole was attacked because they didn't like a US warship stationed in their own homeland.

Al-Qaeda had announced that they would attack any ally to the US in the war against Iraq, so England being ally #1, they got attacked.

And what are the roots of their political agenda? Ah yes, the koran.

Notice that countries that leave the rest of the world alone, like, Brazil, Argentina, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Chile, etc. don't have any terrorist problems.

Notice that the above countries listed are not world powers either.

As for your examples give above, how about:

How about Air India 747 bombing in the mid 80s? Sikh terrorists, not Muslims.

How about the Iranian Airbus shot down over the Gulf? Mistake, whoops.


How about Israel "accidently" bombing one of our own US Navy ships?

Your first example: sure, there are other groups out there who practice terrorism. But, not nearly on the scale as muslims do. Sikh's were making a political statement, muslims are practicing a violent ideology.

Your second and third examples are accidents, not intentional acts of violence.

 

[FCNelson]

First off, I doubt any airline would tell the applicant why they werent hired.

Second, I do know of a former ACA/I-air pilot that is of the "muslim" background and got hired at JB. (he was an instructor with dugan).

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You are doubtlessly talking about the little protege of one of the big-time hatchet men in the ACA CRJ program.

Unfortunately I had no veto power over who they hire as instructors (unlike the people who pass Stage I Interview and have names posted in CP's office)

He is already carving out a name for himself as a dunce in the training dept. He may be fired soon from what I hear, due mostly to sheer incompetence.

 

[GFunk20]

VABB, read the Quran before you freakin' have the nerves to say its an ideology of Islam.

You know darn well that people use religion as an excuse for their actions. They have for years and will continue doing so.

Should we profile all white christians cause of Timothy McVeigh and the KKK members? I dont think so.

If the story above is true, then JB screwed over this guy and deserves to pay out the penalty.

 

[VABB]

VABB, read the Quran before you freakin' have the nerves to say its an ideology of Islam.

You know darn well that people use religion as an excuse for their actions. They have for years and will continue doing so.

Should we profile all white christians cause of Timothy McVeigh and the KKK members? I dont think so.

If the story above is true, then JB screwed over this guy and deserves to pay out the penalty.

I have read it, and the quran clearly teaches conversion by the sword.

You mention Timothy McVeigh and the KKK. Fine, but neither one of them have ever stated that they were committing violence in the name of the Bible. In fact, Jesus very emphatically teaches NOT to use violence, so anyone who commits an act of violence and says they are following the Bible are actually contradicting it.

The same cannot be said for islam.

 

[Fins Up]

Did you sleep through 9/11?

Actually I flew a group of FEMA workers from Puerto Rico to Pennsylvania on the 11th. Pretty quiet flying that night. My wife worked in the towers until two weeks before the attack. I'm well aware of what happened.

I just don't agree with bashing the whole religion because of acts done by the misguided who choose to defame what is supposed to be a peaceful religion. I've spent time in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bahrain and Qatar. They're not all out to get us. Every race/relgion/country has it's share of scumbags.

 

[Jonny Sacko]

lunatic, violent fringe, or they remain silent knowing that the violent fringe . .

What the hell, man, I keep hearing songs while reading those words. Please don't use those together, now it's stuck in my head YOU BASTARD!!!!!!


Lunitic Fringe, I know your out there.....DAMNIT DAMN YOU

Next is the Violent Fems. Why can't I get just one BEEEPPP

ADD IT UP ADD IT UP


I hope it's stuck in your head now too. Take that.!!!!

 

[Flyer1015]

Not what he is talking about ace, saying stop, and actually stepping up to the plate and making it stop are two very deadly differences. You will probably not see any part of the Islamic mainstream ever step up and take care of business. WHY? Gods will. Bullshiittee.

How can muslims in America "make it stop?" You think there is anything they can do to get bin Laden to give up? Hahaha.

Muslims in first world, developed countries, can only speak up against radicals/fanatics.


The REAL REAL problem lies in third world countries... THIS is where the violence/extremism/fanaticism is bred. If any of the "good" muslims do step up there, they will be squashed, persecuted, or maybe even hurt/killed by the extremists/fanaticists. Besides, in these thirld world countries, even the good muslims are poor, and dont have any power.

So when the numbers "look too high" you just say let's lower the percentage?

No, it was my mistake. 3% of 1.4 billion you said was about 42 million and I didn't realize it was that high.

Realistically, there aren't 42 million Islamic terrorists. Maybe a million, maybe 5 million at most, out of 1.4 billion.

I should have said couple million, and not couple percent of 1.4 billion. Wrong word choice.

Ah, but this topic wasn't centered around our service members now, was it? I believe the topic was islam and it's violence. Now, let's look at the facts one more time. In 2003, a muslim serving in the Air Force murdered his fellow airmen in the name islam. Correct????

I brought up that situation to illustrate that in dire times, the worst comes out in people. This incident you describe, is no different. It's not like this guy was destined from day one to go and kill American soldiers.

And what are the roots of their political agenda? Ah yes, the koran.

How about the US foreign policy in the middle east? The one-sided Israel support?

Politics play a huge role, you're sadly mistaken if you think the Quran is responsible for the mess in the Middle east today! Just look at our nations foreign policy and actions in the middle east going back in the last 40-60 years, and you will see.

Notice that the above countries listed are not world powers either.

China is a world power. But they are a communist nation, and for a while now, they've kept their nose out of the middle east. They dont seem to be having any Islamic terrorist problems! It's not a matter of being a world power or not.

It's a matter of we've screwed around in the middle east way too long (oil), and now we're suffering the consequences. Not China. Not Japan. We are.

 

[VABB]

Actually I flew a group of FEMA workers from Puerto Rico to Pennsylvania on the 11th. Pretty quiet flying that night. My wife worked in the towers until two weeks before the attack. I'm well aware of what happened.

I just don't agree with bashing the whole religion because of acts done by the misguided who choose to defame what is supposed to be a peaceful religion. I've spent time in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bahrain and Qatar. They're not all out to get us. Every race/relgion/country has it's share of scumbags.

Fins Up,

This goes a lot deeper than a few people defaming a whole religion. I'm not talking off the cuff, but rather as one who has studied this topic pretty deep.

Islam does claim to be peaceful. However, islam is peaceful only to other muslims. That is the catch. There are some good books on the shelves out there written by former muslims before they left that religion. These authors lived in muslim countries and were indoctrinated with a hateful and violent teaching towards anyone who is not muslim. I highly reccomend reading one or more of them, because they are real eye-openers.

And you are right, not all muslims are out to get non-muslims. However, these muslims tend to be very casual about their religion. It's not that the extremists are fanatics, it's that they are dedicated to studying the koran for what it is. The other muslims that don't partake in the violence are the Christian equivalent of "pew warmers".

 

[FN FAL]

Fins Up,

This goes a lot deeper than a few people defaming a whole religion. I'm not talking off the cuff, but rather as one who has studied this topic pretty deep.

Islam does claim to be peaceful. However, islam is peaceful only to other muslims. That is the catch. There are some good books on the shelves out there written by former muslims before they left that religion. These authors lived in muslim countries and were indoctrinated with a hateful and violent teaching towards anyone who is not muslim. I highly reccomend reading one or more of them, because they are real eye-openers.

And you are right, not all muslims are out to get non-muslims. However, these muslims tend to be very casual about their religion. It's not that the extremists are fanatics, it's that they are dedicated to studying the koran for what it is. The other muslims that don't partake in the violence are the Christian equivalent of "pew warmers".

Religion=bad Peace=good.

 

[Flyer1015]

I have read it, and the quran clearly teaches conversion by the sword.

I'm gonna raise the :bs: BS flag on this one!


You read the Quran? Do you read Arabic?

I'm assuming you read the english translation.


And if there is one thing I've noticed, is that every english translation I came across varied from the one before.


In the english tranlsation, there is no "clearly" for conversion by the sword.

Anyone who reads the english translation of the Quran and says that they can "clearly" see that the book is teaching conversion by the sword, is full of it.

Yes, I've read the english translation.




And conversion by sword?


Islam is the fastest growing religion in the WORLD. No sword spreading involved with that today.

Look at the numbers, even in America. The #1 religion being "converted into" is Islam.

 

[VABB]

I'm gonna raise the :bs: BS flag on this one!


You read the Quran? Do you read Arabic?

I'm assuming you read the english translation.


And if there is one thing I've noticed, is that every english translation I came across varied from the one before.


In the english tranlsation, there is no "clearly" for conversion by the sword.

Anyone who reads the english translation of the Quran and says that they can "clearly" see that the book is teaching conversion by the sword, is full of it.

Yes, I've read the english translation.




And conversion by sword?


Islam is the fastest growing religion in the WORLD. No sword spreading involved with that today.

Look at the numbers, even in America. The #1 religion being "converted into" is Islam.

I'm gonna raise the :bs: BS flag on this one!


You read the Quran? Do you read Arabic?

I'm assuming you read the english translation.

Actually, someone who speaks both Arabic and English translated it. Not only that, but this person grew up in a Middle Eastern (Egypt) country. Very interesting.

And conversion by sword?


Islam is the fastest growing religion in the WORLD. No sword spreading involved with that today.

Look at the numbers, even in America. The #1 religion being "converted into" is Islam.

I have a challenge for you. Why don't you go to Saudi Arabia, Sudan, or Iran and try to lure someone AWAY from Islam? Better yet, try to convert them to Christianity. Islamic law says that the penalty is death. Sure sounds like the sword to me.

 

[414Flyer]

Notice that countries that leave the rest of the world alone, like, Brazil, Argentina, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Chile, etc. don't have any terrorist problems

Sounds like quite the defeatist, cowardly and indicative of appeasement, that if we just sit back and do not ever do anything, the terrorists will like us. You are blaming America for international Islamists conducting terrorist acts. The above listed examples are most definitely rooted in religion. To say those are terrorist acts and not of any basis in religion is a bit ignorant, since the idea of seperating religion and politics and a mostly religious one. AQ certainly acts in the name of Islam, not in the name of politics. The train blasts in Mumbai and other places in India, definitely are centered around religion too.

Actually yes some of those listed countries do have problems. Swedes are not welcome in parts of Sweden now, that are turned into Islamic enclaves. You seem to have forgotten an act of Terrorist in Argentina, sponsored by Iran.

To just be a cowardly dhimmi, never standing up for priniciples and allies, in a time where there are violent ideologists intent on killing dirty kaffir infidels, thats no time to cower in a corner, hoping that someone else will be a bigger target.

 

[Flyer1015]

Actually, someone who speaks both Arabic and English translated it.

Obviously you have to be able to speak both Arabic and English to translate it in the first place. Thanks, Mr. Obvious.

Not only that, but this person grew up in a Middle Eastern (Egypt) country. Very interesting.

Even more interesting... Egypt is not a Middle Eastern country. It's an African country.

Try looking at a globe. Remember that large round ball that was in your elementary school social studies class? Yup, that's the one

Sounds like quite the defeatist, cowardly and indicative of appeasement, that if we just sit back and do not ever do anything, the terrorists will like us.

You missed my point.


The point is that no other country than the USA has been more involved with hte middle east in the bad way, our foreign policy has been crappy in that whole area.


But hey, we got cheap gas as a result !!! Fuel prices were like a buck a gallon, while the rest of Europe and South America paid anywhere from $4 to $6 American dollars, while we were paying $1.

The Royal Family of Saudi Arabia and the Bush administration... explore that relationship.

The bottom line is that we the USA, have helped shaped the problems that is now the middle east. And we have MANY blemishes on our record, like the Iran contra affair.

 

[VABB]

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How about the US foreign policy in the middle east? The one-sided Israel support?

We're not one-sided, we just don't support states that sponsor terrorism. If we were one-sided, we wouldn't have stepped in and helped Kuwait during the first gulf war.

The Saudis were begging us to come help them. If I remember correctly, they wanted us to protect them and not offend them.

Politics play a huge role, you're sadly mistaken if you think the Quran is responsible for the mess in the Middle east today!

Then how do you explain Iran? Is it politics or ideology when the president of Iran says he wants to "wipe Israel off the face of the map"?

China is a world power. But they are a communist nation, and for a while now, they've kept their nose out of the middle east. They dont seem to be having any Islamic terrorist problems!

China also has a very tight reign on who gets to practice which religion withing their borders too. i.e., no freedom of religion. I've been to China several times, and there aren't too many mosques sitting around. The reason China doesen't have (or at least report) any islamic troubles is because they don't let them practice it.

China will get involved in the Mid-East when their oil supplies begin to get disrupted.

 

[VABB]

Even more interesting... Egypt is not a Middle Eastern country. It's an African country.

To be very technical, it is actually North Africa. So, from what you are saying is that one should refer to an Egyptian as an African. Funny, because the Egyptians I know refer to themselves as Arabs.

But that is beside the point. Egypt is a very islamic country nonetheless.

 

[Flyer1015]

To be very technical, it is actually North Africa. So, from what you are saying is that one should refer to an Egyptian as an African. Funny, because the Egyptians I know refer to themselves as Arabs.

But that is beside the point. Egypt is a very islamic country nonetheless.

I said it's an African country, as in implying, it's a country located within the continent of Africa.



VAAB, we can go back and forth on this middle east history, cause/effect, etc., all day long.

Let's just agree to disagree.


But let me ask you, did you seriously feel that Iraq was a threat to the USA as Bush claimed?


Here we have a dictator of North Korea who has arrogantly test fired missiles, one that could even reach alaska and the west coast.

He's directly threatened us. And what do we do? Sit on our butts, and "talk" it out.

Why couldn't we "talk" it out with Iraq?

Instead of sitting in this mess with Shia killing Sunnis, Sunnis killing Shias.

Make no mistake, more Iraqi civilians are dying now (per month) then were before with Suddam Hussein's regime.

Iraq is much worse now than it was pre-war with Hussein.

 

[414Flyer]

Actually the backwardness, ignorance and poverty of much of that part of the world, does have Islam as a factor on it. Its not coincidence, that Israel has much higher scientific acheivement that all of its Arab/Muslim neighbors put together. Or that Madrassas teach nothing but religion, instead of math, science, literacy, technology, etc.

I suppose it was wrong to be biased in favor of the UK during WW2, or South Korea instead of North Korea too. The world is better off for US actions, not worse off. We should not just desert Israel because it will earn us less scorn from its neighbors.

the US and Europe have given lots of aid to middle eastern/arab/muslim poor countries, but it really means nothing to those countries because we are not part of the "Ummah", and therefore should always be less important. Us and Europe were the biggest aid donors to "Palestinians", but guess where the Palestinians would love to see more terrorist acts?

The Middle East did not give the US cheaper oilthan Europe, your example is wrong., there is a worldwide price. Yes Reagan and the Saudis conspiries to make oil cheap to deny the USSR a main source of funding, but Europe got cheap oil too, they just tax it a lot!

Yes, other countrie have done a lot worse in regards to the Middle East. Ever heard of UK and France? A lot of those screwy borders, can be attributed to them.

But those who will blame the US will always find a reason. Either we are not active internationally enough, or we are active too much. Or we give too much money, or we dont give enough money. We cant just base actions on how it may make people hate us less, but in terms of doing what is right, even when it make piss some people off.

 

[VABB]

I said it's an African country, as in implying, it's a country located within the continent of Africa.



VAAB, we can go back and forth on this middle east history, cause/effect, etc., all day long.

Let's just agree to disagree.


But let me ask you, did you seriously feel that Iraq was a threat to the USA as Bush claimed?


Here we have a dictator of North Korea who has arrogantly test fired missiles, one that could even reach alaska and the west coast.

He's directly threatened us. And what do we do? Sit on our butts, and "talk" it out.

Why couldn't we "talk" it out with Iraq?

Instead of sitting in this mess with Shia killing Sunnis, Sunnis killing Shias.

Make no mistake, more Iraqi civilians are dying now (per month) then were before with Suddam Hussein's regime.

Iraq is much worse now than it was pre-war with Hussein.

O.K., we will agree to disagree.

Iraq? O.K., you asked and I will answer.

I did feel that there was a threat from Iraq, albeit not on a grande scale. I have (and still do) view Iran as the bigger threat. Hussein was mostly a gnat, but the dangerous part is that I think he would do anything for the good of his dictatorship. Not that he was an imminent threat, but that possibility certainly existed.

Now, to address your statement with N. Korea. I see some very big differences between N. Korea and Iraq. The first is the size of the army, numbering over 1 million. Second, his army is better trained and more loyal than Saddam's was. Third is stability. Attacking N. Korea would no doubt lead to an invasion of the North into Seoul, and possibly an attack on Japan too. Add to the equation that China is on North Korea's side and the recipe is there for a huge mess. The economic risks are much higher in that area too. Politics involved? Absolutely, but I didn't write that book. Just making an observation. Would I like to see the N. Korean dictatorship militarily taken out and that country's people set free? Absolutely, but at the present time the consequences severely outweigh the gains.

The Middle East is a completely different animal. Russia isn't going to get involved in any dispute, until oil becomes a precious commodity for them. For the time being, the Russians are talking to us above the table as friends and allies, but they are playing footsies under the table with people like the Iranians. Russia is a player in the Middle East too, they are just being very quiet about it.

 

[Flyer1015]

But those who will blame the US will always find a reason. Either we are not active internationally enough, or we are active too much. Or we give too much money, or we dont give enough money. We cant just base actions on how it may make people hate us less, but in terms of doing what is right, even when it make piss some people off.

And who defines what it is to "do what is right" even when it pisses people off?

 

[VABB]

And who defines what it is to "do what is right" even when it pisses people off?

That is the $64 Million question.

 

[Flyer1015]

VAAB, realize though that the Iranian leader has clearly stated he will respond to a war act from any western force by cutting the oil supply.

Once that happens, expect oil to shoot up... beyond $100 a barrel. Then watch our economy, and heck, watch the whole world wide economy take a huge fall.


So by your North Korea analogy/statement:

Absolutely, but at the present time the consequences severely outweigh the gains.

Doesn't that also apply to Iran ?


Oil prices will exceed $100/barrel, the US ecnomy will fall quite a bit, the worldwide global economy will sag too. Not to mention, that could start a chain reaction of wars in the Middle East... a "all hell breaks loose" situation.

 

[CA1900]

I said it's an African country, as in implying, it's a country located within the continent of Africa.
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Even more interesting... Egypt is not a Middle Eastern country. It's an African country.

"Middle East" isn't a continent, it's a region. Saying Egypt is not middle-eastern because it's African makes as much sense as saying Atlanta isn't southern, because it's in the United States.

Go to Google. Type "Map of the middle east." Pick a link, any link. Try this one for starters.

 

[VABB]

VAAB, realize though that the Iranian leader has clearly stated he will respond to a war act from any western force by cutting the oil supply.

Once that happens, expect oil to shoot up... beyond $100 a barrel. Then watch our economy, and heck, watch the whole world wide economy take a huge fall.


So by your North Korea analogy/statement:



Doesn't that also apply to Iran ?

Not to give you a confusing answer, but yes and no.

Yes, it would be a huge economic hit if Iran were to cut the oil supply. Either scenario (Iran or North Korean theater) would be a huge economic blow, but the more riskier of the two is Iran. I'll explain.

South Korea doesen't export much, if any energy abroad. Iran does. While a conflict on the Korean peninsula would have strong negative economic consequences, they aren't comparable to what a halt in oil supply would do. Both scenarios are very bad ones, but when you weigh them the Iranian scenario would be much more detrimental, mostly because you would be cutting off an energy supply to much of the world.

But, there is a flip side to that coin as well. If Iran cuts off oil, they also cut off revenue. Even if Russia, India, and China still purchase oil, Iran will have a surplus. Revenue will still roll in, but not as high as it could. So Iran could face economic reprecussions as well.

Regardless of who attacks who, I wouldn't be surprised to see oil climb anyway. It seems it has gotten to the point where oil prices climb regardless of who is fighting or threatening to fight.