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almost
Whatever almost means
president stood apart from others,
How would President Trump respond i wonder?
In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev’s willingness to accept Kennedy’s hegemonic demands. But we can hardly count on such sanity forever.
This is seriously one sided. The Russian leader painted as wise and benevolent is not in harmony with what we know from Solzhenitsyn. The irony is that it is primarily an American who would have the freedoms to write such hugely critical content
most of the world—have vigorously supported Iran’s right, as a signer of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), to enrich uranium.
It's a theocracy. Even Cromwell didn't try and impose a theocracy in 17th century England which had only 5.5 million people. Fallen people cant manage theocracy. The church speaks truth to power, it is not the powerful. When healthy and flourishing it will be powerful but even that has risks.
It is hard to think of a country in the world that needs a deterrent more than Iran.
North Korea, Cuba, China, or undemocratic oppressive regimes.
These comments naturally leave out many urgent topics, among them the horrifying descent of Syria into suicide and ominous developments in Egypt, which are sure to have a regional impact. Nonetheless, this is how some of the core issues appear, to me at least.
This is a very one sided picture. Israel is the only nation surrounded on all sides by nations sworn on its destruction. Judaism is an anethema to Islam.
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NATO, a hostile military alliance.
According to the Soviets.
whose economy relies heavily on massive state intervention.
Really?
support radical fundamentalist Islam in opposition to secular nationalism,
False dichotomy. Islam at its fundamental is what it is, written down with a clear record
condition; the United States is uniquely self-immunized from
anybody can be. What is international law after all? Agreements by a particular group of nations, varying in size. Maritime law is the best because, like all effective law, it is by consent.
is, in fact,
Nice turn of phrase
That is routine for virtually all actions of all states and so carries little information.
Indeed. We should be wary
As any literate person is doubtless aware,
Ergo if you are not aware you are not literate. These are rhetorical devices that cause me to doubt his integrity. The Global Warming Policy Foundation offers alternative perspectives on the situation
accelerating
Show an acceleration act on the statute. What nonsense
perhaps the final century of human civilization if current policies persist.
Here comes the apocalyptic language
97 percent
97% of scientists were once wrong about a geocentric cosmos. Fortunately, Galileo and Copernicus were given a voice. 3% should not be ignored
environmental destruction and nuclear war.
I do agree these are two of the main issues. Now once we've found the source of this destructive tendency in mankind we can tackle the problem. Mmm... hang on a moment. By jove I think I've got it.
it is imperative to sweep away the ideological clouds and face honestly and realistically the question of how policy decisions are made,
Through the prism of your ideological clouds which have so far manifested themselves in this book most clearly
Outrage
“The institutionalised disregard for Palestinian life in the West helps explain not only why Palestinians resort to violence,”
He gives no credit for the advanced medical care available to all Israeli's including Palestinian's. He gives no account of the corruption and exploitation of aid be Hamas and Hezbollah. This is a one sided account.
I am talking about intellectuals, academics, ordinary people: everybody is saying that.”
But find out how many millions of foreign aid has poured into Gaza over the years syphoned of by Palestinian criminal gand terrorists. Where does the funding come from for the complex network of advanced tunneling engineered by Palestinian insurgents?
leading sociologist,
Well he must be right because sociology produces the best political analysis😁
Hamas’s leaders have repeatedly made it clear that
And of course we believe them.
consensus
There is no such consensus other than the author's definition
initiated plans for a military coup to overthrow the elected government.
Er...references
was the Al-Wafa
They used the hospital as a base for gunman. That's the sort of disregard for any conventions of humanity these folks have. https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-targets-hospital-hamas-used-as-firing-position/
Wafa Rehabilitation Hospital
Namibian resistance SWAPO.
The most brutal Soviet funded communist fighting force.
Cuban
When its Cuba it's liberation. When US it's subjugation.
liberation of Africa, generally ignored in the West, though not in Africa.
Liberation of Africa leading to a meteoric rise in murder rates, family breakdown and abortion. Cuba's Soviet funded intervention was murderous
more significant for the tragic Palestinian victims
Yes but who are the perpetrators? Did you know about the LGBT community who have fled from Palestinian controlled territory to escape torture or stoning?
easy acceptance of extraordinary threats to survival.
With this I agree
ruler Joseph Stalin in 1952
His promises were of course credible!
ridiculed
Joined by 60 million victims of the beneficent Soviet Union
record of Israeli actions designed to deter the threat of a diplomatic settlement.
Really? What's the motive? Where's the evidence?
International Crisis Group.
Funded by our favourite rabble rouser and zealous pro-abortionist. From their website:
"In February, Crisis Group establishes its first field presence in the Balkans financed by a $1 million contribution from George Soros following the signing of the December 1995 Dayton Peace Accords. The Bosnia program is to essentially define the organisation’s early years."
As usual,
You forgot to mention Hamas' constitutional commitment to the destruction of Israel. That's kinda important. Just saying.
These basic policies have been underway since the 1967 conquest,
Conquest! What are you talking about? The 1967 Arab Israeli war, won against overwhelming odds.
century, the Zionist colonization
Colonial? Please. These are Jews, this is Israel.
brutalized Palestinians,
Blind to the brutality these folks meet out on their people
The U.S. Is a Leading Terrorist State
Really?
for Jonas Savimbi’s terrorist UNITA army.
They were opposition to the Soviet backed Angolan communist regime.
Angola, Cuban forces drove South African aggressors out of the country,
Castro was a brutal dictator and exporter of terror:
https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/frontfel/cuba-castro-communism
Angola, Cuban forces drove South African aggressors out of the country,
Bull. The SA caused the Soviets to bleed significant resources and contributed to the downfall of the Soviet Union.
(Chatham House),
👂
ISIS is an extremist offshoot of Saudi religious extremism and its fanning of jihadi flames.
More fundamental than extreme
which has helped to spread the plague from a small tribal area in the Afghanistan-Pakistan borderlands to a vast region from West Africa to Southeast Asia.
With that I agree. The USA has srewed things up royally
“becoming the rogue superpower …
I might agree. Ironically freeky from a western democracy
failing to perform their most important duty—ensuring and preserving the health and vitality of human civilization.”1
Duty? By what standard? Where do you get the concept of duty from? It smacks of the transcendent standard, does it not?
