Displaying 1,501 To 1,530 Of 3,538 Comments Great Britain was definitely one of the most hardcore empires of all time. We ain’t got shit on them. Other than the circumstances leading to the assembly of the victims in each movie, there isn’t a ton of difference. The targeted killing of civilians is terrorism. No matter who does it. » Posted By ADONAI On May 17, 2011 @ 3:57 pm choice, I always feel the most difficult subjects are the ones that require the most discussion. Especially something as complex as terrorism. We tend to think of individual groups with no real government ties but, as you pointed out, state sponsored terrorism is very much a part fo everyday life. » Posted By ADONAI On May 17, 2011 @ 3:35 pm Caru, thank you for pointing that out. I was so involved with the IRA side that I did not do my due diligence as far as research went. » Posted By ADONAI On May 17, 2011 @ 3:32 pm Neutrality: De Valera and Winston Churchill No doubt KT. When you hear about Germany in Russia how can you not think of Hitler? The Napoleon story is funny though. They get to Moscow and the city is pretty much empty and frozen. Then Russia sets the city on fire! You’re never gonna beat someone that hardcore on their own turf. » Posted By ADONAI On May 9, 2011 @ 6:14 pm When Hitler’s first invasion of Russia failed, he insisted on still going to Moscow. Stalingrad is what defeated Germany. Resources or not, it was so fucking stupid. I was trying to understand Britain’s need to have South Ireland during the war. You want to be neutral and may stay neutral but the world is moving around you. You can’t completely avoid it. » Posted By ADONAI On May 9, 2011 @ 1:19 pm I wanna get in on the Hitler talk. Everything Caru said is true. For about 3 years. Hitler wanted an empire. That’s for certain. He believed Germany had a “right” to the territory around it. I don’t think he ever originally intended on conquering Britain or America. Simply neutralizing them. Building a great German empire that would eventually overtake them culturally and economically. And you can’t forget Italy. Italy declared war in Africa and Italy moved forces to instigate confrontation with English forces. Hitler went crazy though. Maybe not clinically insane but at some point his reach began exceeding his grasp. Invading Russia was a stupid move. An INCREDIBLY stupid move. At some point Hitler became the comic book villain many of us think he is. He invoked the Final Solution, signed off on the complete decimation of Eastern Britain, and actually began planning an invasion of the east coast of North America. I don’t think he ever liked the Pearl Harbor bombing because it was a failure. He was smart. He always knew America would have to be dealt with at some point. I think he was hoping for a diplomatic resolution. Pearl Harbor ended any chance of that because America’s navy was still near full strength and we were super pissed. I think America’s entrance into WW 2 is what kept Hitler in Russia. One of us had to go. I believe he really did want a world led/ruled by Germany and the “Aryan race”. Now, as far as neutrality, “You can’t be neutral on a moving train.” A lot of people in Europe didn’t want war for whatever reason but war was upon them regardless. There is no “sitting this one out”. » Posted By ADONAI On May 9, 2011 @ 12:47 pm PlanetPOV Feature – Emails on Replies HOORAY!!!! » Posted By ADONAI On May 6, 2011 @ 2:40 pm I can already go ahead and say I like the idea. I don’t get a ton of e-mail at the address I have listed on this site so it won’ bother me at all. Mark me down as approved. » Posted By ADONAI On May 6, 2011 @ 2:30 pm He’s gotta know better than that.You can’t just throw that out in front of an open mic on live national television. » Posted By ADONAI On May 9, 2011 @ 4:59 pm Indeed Buddy. Twice the size of the biggest ants around today. And we have some pretty big ants on the planet right now. » Posted By ADONAI On May 9, 2011 @ 12:13 pm HOORAY!!!!!!!!!! » Posted By ADONAI On May 9, 2011 @ 12:09 pm I would step in to help with the news but I don’t think anyone is interested in the new Nintendo video game console or 49 million year old ant fossils. They found a full queen ant fossil the size of a hummingbird! It was huge! http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/73880/title/Giant_ants_once_roamed_Wyoming Oh, and happy vacation Cher! » Posted By ADONAI On May 5, 2011 @ 12:34 pm God bless him Cher. It sounds like he lived a full life. We should all be so lucky. And O.K., we’ll go with Clooney. 🙂 But I got Seinfeld waiting as a backup. He’s gotta be pushing 50 by now. » Posted By ADONAI On May 4, 2011 @ 5:19 pm I need you to give me the rights to the movie. It won’t be entirely based on your dad, we’ll embellish a little(always respectfully), but I can see George Clooney taking this role but I want more authenticity so maybe Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Jewish and incredibly popular right now. Or, if we wanna go a little older, Adrian Brody. I got several pages going though my head right now for the airport scene alone. Being questioned by Saudi officials with a cool million taped to you? It basically writes itself! Cher, your dad sounds like a cool dude. I would have loved to have met him. Very few people ever recognize opportunity when it smacks them in the face. Even fewer make it work. » Posted By ADONAI On May 4, 2011 @ 4:42 pm No Mercy Shown, No Mercy Given bito, I would call invading a sovereign nation without good cause and massacring thousands of civilians genocide. I would call personal stories of soldiers about indiscriminately firing into civilian populations genocide. I would call bombing hospitals and weddings fucking genocide. The people of Iraq and Afghanistan have done nothign to us. Why would we ever involve them? The men who carried out the killing of Bin Laden are not under the direct authority of the military. We don’t need the whole military to get these people. Not even half of it. And of course it’s bluster. Jingoism at it’s finest. It’s obvious and pretty damn easy to point out. They’re not even my words entirely. Just paraphrasing something I read in a book a long time ago. I’m angry as hell. This dug up old feelings. I watched people jump hundreds of feet to their death to avoid burning alive. No mercy shown, no mercy given. And I’m sorry if this perplexes you. Makes perfect sense to me. wts is correct. It’s wrong to say these things. You ever been in a situation where you’re pretty sure you’re gonna die? It sucks. It’s not cool, it’s not fun to talk about, it doesn’t make for good bumper stickers. But it does give you a healthy respect for people who deal with death everyday and a profound sadness for those who have lost. I dunno. I have friends in the Marines and the Army and this is just how we talk when I’m with them. I feel silly sometimes because when they speak, it’s with authority. When I speak, it’s with doubt. But they never seem to notice, or at least never bust my balls about it, God bless’em. Also, how is it difficult to both appreciate what the military does and still be incredibly mistrustful of it? I feel the same way about the government. I’m not seeing the confusion here. And if my kid wanted to join the military I wouldn’t stop him. These are decisions a person has to make on their own. Live your life. Not mine. » Posted By ADONAI On May 5, 2011 @ 12:36 am I will not commit genocide for the United Sates Army. Do not confuse my feeling for what I believe is justice, with a chipper feeling about the United States military. I am simply glad that military has men and women capable of doing what is necessary. I want anyone who would swear allegiance to Al Qaeda, OBL, or any other cult of evil to die. I don’t understand why we have to kill thousands of Iraqis and Afghanis to make that happen. Seems a tad much. Plus, it’s easy to talk, but it’s damn hard to kill a man. Sure the military will take that out of you to a degree, but part of me knows that isn’t right. You shouldn’t want to kill someone. Which makes wts correct. » Posted By ADONAI On May 4, 2011 @ 11:20 pm wts, Indeed it is. It is truly a shame we live in a world where such things could even be thought. Over 3,000 of our brothers and sisters were needlessly butchered that day. And still people dare to claim allegiance to Al Qaeda. To continue butchering for them. Kill them all. » Posted By ADONAI On May 4, 2011 @ 11:16 pm I gotta go with bito on this too. Everything we do isn’t a reinforcement of a negative stereotype. I guess you could call this an assassination but the killing of Osama Bin Laden has never been a secret. America very rarely issues assassination orders. We do often give our military and secret operatives a “license to kill”. When we say a target is wanted “dead or alive”, this “license to kill” is issued in accordance with any attempt on the target’s apprehension. If you can take him alive, great. If not , you have the go ahead to resolve the encounter with deadly force. There will be military and civilian documentation of this. It may stay classified for several years but you will see that this is not an act of senseless aggression or a simple assassination to garner political favor. » Posted By ADONAI On May 4, 2011 @ 4:52 pm I have a soft spot. I care. And I hate to see needless death. But I am a hard man over all. If they visit pain on me, I will return it tenfold. If they kill one of mine, I will kill a hundred of theirs. If they show no mercy, none will be given. What you won’t do, I will. America needs people who preach love, tolerance, and virtue. It also needs people who will not hesitate to do what is necessary. » Posted By ADONAI On May 4, 2011 @ 3:58 pm The New Torture Debate is Another Logical Fallacy I gotta tell you, if the plan to kill Bin Laden fell apart, Bradley Manning would have been the last person I blamed. They may have gotten Bin Laden but this doesn’t change my feelings about the military one bit. You’re a good man Bradley Manning. You may have went a little overboard, but I get ya. » Posted By ADONAI On May 4, 2011 @ 1:56 pm Torture has proved ineffective historically. A long list of false information given to stop whatever pain is being inflicted. Napoleon didn’t care for it though he still used it on occasion cause he’s a dick. During the Hundred Years War, the French and English tortured each other endlessly and never got anything of value from it. it only ended after they had burned a young woman at the stake for talking to GOD(Joan of Arc). A lot of torture during the Civil war. No good intelligence. Any intelligence Sherman gained on his march to the sea was gained through interrogation. Not torture. Apparently, if you treat people like human beings, they’ll talk to you. Germans and Japanese tortured hundreds, maybe thousands, of U.S. and Russian soldiers. Never got anything of value. Obviously. Same in Korea and Vietnam. It just doesn’t work. Especially on soldiers and people fighting for a cause they truly believe in. Many just will not betray that cause under torture. And when they do, they’re usually just telling you what you want to hear. » Posted By ADONAI On May 4, 2011 @ 1:53 pm Once again Cher I cannot stress enough how great it is to have all this in one place. Thank you for your work. Saves me, and I’m sure many others, a lot of time searching and I can’t thank you enough for that. » Posted By ADONAI On May 2, 2011 @ 7:05 pm BREAKING NEWS: Osama Bin Laden Dead Bush may have destroyed Babylon but he was never going to get the temple rebuilt. He must be a fan of half ass biblical prophecy. We went for money. From oil and war. I believe Bush is about as Christian as Richard Dawkins. But he is eminently more greedy. » Posted By ADONAI On May 3, 2011 @ 8:29 pm Surely the Corleone’s had nothing to do with this! They’re upstanding businessmen! » Posted By ADONAI On May 3, 2011 @ 8:22 pm Chaz, I get ya now. I don’t believe we are engaged in wars. When I say war I just use accepted vernacular so as not to cause confusion. All we’ve done is invade 2 sovereign nations for absolutely nothing. That does indeed suck. Bin Laden was our justification for “war” though. But then it changed. And changed again. There are a lot of problems with our presence in the Middle East right now, but killing that son of a bitch isn’t one of them. it doesn’t justify a lot of the terrible things we’ve done, but it doesn’t compound them either. » Posted By ADONAI On May 3, 2011 @ 7:54 pm Chaz, I think you are over blowing this. He’s a mass murderer and he got away with a quick clean bullet to the brain. If we REALLY wanted to stoop to his level we would have tied up all the people in the room he cared about and killed them one by one while he watched. I don’t like killing either but I’ve lived long enough to realize that some people have to die. They don’t deserve the gift that is another day. Can’t say I’m all for it, but I understand. » Posted By ADONAI On May 3, 2011 @ 7:40 pm Dude, Bin Laden took the piss out of America a decade ago. That’s why we killed him. » Posted By ADONAI On May 3, 2011 @ 7:34 pm What? » Posted By ADONAI On May 3, 2011 @ 7:24 pm Indeed » Posted By ADONAI On May 3, 2011 @ 7:21 pm chaz, He killed over 3,000 of my brothers and sisters in a matter of minutes. The only thing wrong with any of this,is that he got a quick clean death. More than he deserved. There are no shadow governments. There are no secret cabals. No New World Order. The world is just THIS fucked up. » Posted By ADONAI On May 3, 2011 @ 7:14 pmComments Posted By ADONAI
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