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So how is that "Smart Power" working out?

How is "Smart Power" working out for the United States?

  • Smart Power has made incredible foreign policy gains for us

    Votes: 1 4.8%

  • Smart Power helped us "reset" relations with Russia et al.

    Votes: 1 4.8%

  • Smart Power works, but turned out to be Bush Doctrine Lite

    Votes: 2 9.5%

  • We are so screwed that we now lose no matter WHAT we do

    Votes: 17 81.0%
  • Total voters
    21
common sense has no place on the world leadership stage, anyone that is paying attention gets that
 
Fiddytree said:
What sort of real-world experience does the average person have on most policy matters, Sawyer, I mean, honestly.
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Real life teaches you how to think on your feet and react to the unexpected and unforeseen. Academics sit around theorizing and that prepares them for nothing. Take one man that has never driven a car and teach him in the classroom how to react when a car starts to spin out on ice. Take another man who drives a car regularly on icy roads and who's instincts kick in as his car starts to spin out. Now put them on an ice road and tell them to accelerate until the rear end starts coming around, which one is more likely to be upside down in a ditch? The academic will understand all the physics involved and what in theory to do but he will end up spinning down the road out of control.
 
sawyerloggingon said:
Real life teaches you how to think on your feet and react to the unexpected and unforeseen.
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Are you trying to convince me academics aren't alive?

Academics sit around theorizing and that prepares them for nothing.
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And the average person spouts off any chance they get as well. Congratulations.

Take one man that has never driven a car and teach him in the classroom how to react when a car starts to spin out on ice. Take another man who drives a car regularly on icy roads and who's instincts kick in as his car starts to spin out. Now put them on an ice road and tell them to accelerate until the rear end starts coming around, which one is more likely to be upside down in a ditch? The academic will understand all the physics involved and what in theory to do but he will end up in a ditch.
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I know I am not supposed to take this literally, but this is ridiculous. Somehow the average person knows how to drive, but the academic can't. Do you honestly believe this idiotic nonsense?
 
Fiddytree said:
Are you trying to convince me academics aren't alive?



And the average person spouts off any chance they get as well. Congratulations.



I know I am not supposed to take this literally, but this is ridiculous. Somehow the average person knows how to drive, but the academic can't. Do you honestly believe this idiotic nonsense?
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Well I WAS enjoying our conversation but as so often happens when I try to have a polite respectful debate in here it turns into this.:2wave:
 
sawyerloggingon said:
Well I WAS enjoying our conversation but as so often happens when I try to have a polite respectful debate in here it turns into this.:2wave:
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Well, sawyer, if you think being polite means telling people that they don't live in the real world, but you do, based on almost nothing, then yes, it won't be polite on the other end.
 
I can drive and have a million and a half accident free miles, Sebastian Vettel can drive
Obama has driven us into a ditch, repeatedly therefore even I could run this country better than Barry

Course I'd steer clear of the ditches instead of aiming for them?
 
Why is it my ivory tower ideas never seem to work out?
Well cuz this is the Real World Barry not a classroom

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sawyerloggingon said:
Academics are the problem, I am the solution. Academics tend to be left wing elitist who have never done an honest days work in their life, never had to show a profit and have no concept of the real world outside their ivory tower. They fill the minds of our youth with socialist anti America dogma and are more about indoctrination than education.
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You know that's bs. Complete bs. Take me. I've drove truck, served in the military, worked retail, waited tables, cooked, partnered in an antique shop, and worked construction. What in that is not an honest days work?

And I'm not alone.

You also have no respect for young people who work jobs, have families, and try to balance both with getting an education. You also think they don't have their own minds. How arrogant of you.

Like I said, the stuff you spew is the problem. Not education.
 
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Boo Radley 2016!
 
Boo Radley said:
You know that's bs. Complete bs. Take me. I've drove truck, served in the military, worked retail, waited tables, cooked, partnered in an antique shop, and worked construction. What in that is not an honest days work?

And I'm not alone.

You also have no respect for young people who work jobs, have families, and try to balance both with getting an education. You also think they don't have their own minds. How arrogant of you.

Like I said, the stuff you spew is the problem. Not education.
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Then you are not an academic, relax.
 
ac·a·dem·ic
2: not of practical relevance; of only theoretical interest.
"the debate has been largely academic"
synonyms: theoretical, conceptual, notional, philosophical, hypothetical, speculative, conjectural, suppositional;
 
AngryOldGuy said:
ac·a·dem·ic
2: not of practical relevance; of only theoretical interest.
"the debate has been largely academic"
synonyms: theoretical, conceptual, notional, philosophical, hypothetical, speculative, conjectural, suppositional;
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Try the first one:


1.of or relating to education and scholarship. "academic achievement" synonyms: educational, scholastic, instructional, pedagogical More scholarly, studious, literary, well-read, intellectual, clever, erudite, learned, educated, cultured, bookish, highbrow, pedantic, donnish, cerebral; informalbrainy, inkhorn; datedlettered. of or relating to an educational or scholarly institution or environment."students resplendent in academic dress"(of an institution or a course of study) placing a greater emphasis on reading and study than on technical or practical work."an academic high school that prepares students for the best colleges and universities"(of a person) interested in or excelling at scholarly pursuits and activities. "Ben is not an academic child but he tries hard" (of an art form) conventional, esp. in an idealized or excessively formal way.

Or as a noun:

noun
1.
a teacher or scholar in a college or institute of higher education.
synonyms: scholar, lecturer, teacher, tutor, professor, fellow, man/woman of letters, don, bluestocking; More
 
So which postgraduate degree do you hold?
(is this the part where you don't know what that is?)

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yeah none of them ivory tower academics should ever be allowed anywhere near the levers of power
Gimme a Dwight D. Eisenhower Hell even a washed up Hollywood actor
anything but the guy we've got now PLEASE!
 
AngryOldGuy said:
So which postgraduate degree do you hold?
(is this the part where you don't know what that is?)

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yeah none of them ivory tower academics should ever be allowed anywhere near the levers of power
Gimme a Dwight D. Eisenhower Hell even a washed up Hollywood actor
anything but the guy we've got now PLEASE!
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Like I said, attacking education.

I hold a Masters.
 
there you go yer no academic
Boo Radley 2016 !
 
AngryOldGuy said:
there you go yer no academic
Boo Radley 2016 !
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Noun:

a teacher or scholar in a college or institute of higher education.

synonyms: scholar, lecturer, teacher, tutor, professor, fellow, man/woman of letters, don, bluestocking; More
 
drove truck, served in the military, worked retail, waited tables, cooked, partnered in an antique shop, and worked construction

didn't spend your whole life cloistered in the halls of academia
As Commander in Chief, if you had to make a momentous world changing foreign policy decision
who would seek the counsel of?
 
AngryOldGuy said:
ac·a·dem·ic
2: not of practical relevance; of only theoretical interest.
"the debate has been largely academic"
synonyms: theoretical, conceptual, notional, philosophical, hypothetical, speculative, conjectural, suppositional;
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Presenting the adjective definition is too funny!
 
AngryOldGuy said:
drove truck, served in the military, worked retail, waited tables, cooked, partnered in an antique shop, and worked construction

didn't spend your whole life cloistered in the halls of academia
As Commander in Chief, if you had to make a momentous world changing foreign policy decision
who would seek the counsel of?
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Very few do. That's one of a few mistakes those who attack education make.

And a wise president would consult those who process knowledge, regardless of how they gained that knowledge.
 
No one gives a hoot where you went to school or what grades you got.
Results are all that matter.
Ohbammer's results speak for themselves
fail
Fail
FAIL!
hah guess it really doesn't matter what is in his sealed college transcripts anymore eh?
 
Boo Radley said:
Very few do.
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What?
and what is this fixation with attacking education?

Answer the bloody question: would you consult a professor or a Colonel with combat experience?
 
AngryOldGuy said:
No one gives a hoot where you went to school or what grades you got.
Results are all that matter.
Ohbammer's results speak for themselves
fail
Fail
FAIL!
hah guess it really doesn't matter what is in his sealed college transcripts anymore eh?
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No one asked you to care what school he went to. Only criticized for attacking education.
 
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