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Are we on the precifice of World War 3

Are we on the precifice of World War 3

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Navy Pride said:
Sorry but you just can't bury you head in the sands and hope the problems just go away.

They won't.
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I frankly don't see the problems you apparently do.

Seems like there's a small war starting, pausing, or stopping every few years in various places around the world, and so far it seems to affect few except those directly involved.


It's ****ed up but unless it directly affects us I don't think we care.
 
Kobie said:
Nobody is denying that there are problems in the world. There are always problems in the world. That said, the idea that we're on the cusp of World War III (a globally encompassing cataclysm) is absurd.
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Never have we faced the problems around the world we face today and the worse thing is this administration is clueless on what to do about them.
 
Navy Pride said:
Can you imagine the destruction that would happen if nuclear devices were exploded in our major cities in this country? It would be devestating.
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And that is the same since they were invented. Nothing new here. How's the poll working out for you?
 
Navy Pride said:
Never have we faced the problems around the world we face today and the worse thing is this administration is clueless on what to do about them.
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Really? We've certainly faced similar, numerous times.
 
Navy Pride said:
.......I am usually pretty accurate on my political positions on the issues but hope and pray I am wrong about this one.
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LOL....funniest thing I have read all day. Remember people....this is the same "prophet" who said that Fred Thompson was going to be the savior of the Republican party and would wipe the floor clean with every other candidate. He also predicted that McCain would beat Obama....oh and that Romney was going to not only win....but win in a landslide unseen for decades.
 
disneydude said:
LOL....funniest thing I have read all day. Remember people....this is the same "prophet" who said that Fred Thompson was going to be the savior of the Republican party and would wipe the floor clean with every other candidate. He also predicted that McCain would beat Obama....oh and that Romney was going to not only win....but win in a landslide unseen for decades.
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Thompson was too much of a religious conservative, McCain was too much of a politician, and Romney was as well.

I personally was disgusted by all, although I voted for McCain because I was more worried about Obama. Romney I just couldn't stomach so I voted Libertarian. I saw Romney as just one more career political type who had no interest in anyone but himself. I see McCain that way too, in hindsight.

For ****s sake would one of the main parties throw up someone with some damn substance? I'm tired of these pathetic excuses for presidential candidates we keep seeing.

Not a single one in the past 20 years or so has been decent presidential material, IMO

Edit: And that includes the ones who got elected.



Edit 2: *cough* :rantoff:
 
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Navy Pride said:
The results of this poll shock me.......All I can say is you people who voted no live in fantasy land..........I am usually pretty accurate on my political positions on the issues but hope and pray I am wrong about this one.
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I voted “No”, because I don't think we're on the “prefice” [sic] of World War III; I think its' been going on for more than thirty years.
 
Navy Pride said:
Look around you my friend.
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O...kay...

* Israel and Palestine: Been at each other's throats for decades. As much as Hammas is being blamed for escalating the violence, I do think ole Benni stubbornly missed opportunities to broker peace.

* Iraq civil war: As much as people want to blame Pres. Obama for not pushing harder to (override GW's pre-arranged troop withdrawal and) keep U.S. troop in Iraq, I put the blame squarely where it should be: 1) the newly elected Iraqi government, and 2) the cowards/traitors among the Iraqi local police and military. Had the government been more representative of ALL the nation's people and local/national law enforcement showed some loyalty to country, Iraq wouldn't be in such chaos today. (Of course, invading Iraq under false pretenses had nothing to do with it. :roll: )

* Syrian civil war: Tyrannical government meets Islamic insurgents masking as militants on the side of opposition forces. Not a good situation by any means.

* Egypt's Arab Spring gone Sideways at best...south at worst: Not sure what to make of this display of national outcry turned democracy gone wrong, but at least things have cooled in-country somewhat.

* Russia breakin' off som-o-dat Crimean loyalist: I was concerned that Russia's "blockaid" along the Ukrainian border could have gone dreadfully wrong, but the shooting down of that Malaysian commercial plane seems to have awaken the world to Russia's wrong-doing. With the world taking notice, I don't think Putin will do anything stupid. He'll back down eventually.

As long as the world views much of the fighting as "internal/domestic crisis" that don't spill over into other countries or going outside of certain regions, I think the rest of the industrialized world will let them burn themselves out.
 
Quote Originally Posted by Navy Pride
Its amazing how you people are not concerned....
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:lamo

You have started two polls today. One in which 87% of pollsters disagree with you, the other 84%. Not your day.
 
Navy Pride said:
The results of this poll shock me.......All I can say is you people who voted no live in fantasy land..........I am usually pretty accurate on my political positions on the issues but hope and pray I am wrong about this one.
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Given the opinions you've expressed in the past, I think the odds are pretty good.
 
Top Cat said:
What about Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan? Oh wait, those were only Bush Fires.
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If Obama had not cut and run in Iraq prematurely things would be fine in Iraq and he going to do the same in Afghanistan....So are you saying we should not have helped Kuwait against a Saddam Hussein take over?
 
Dittohead not! said:
Given the opinions you've expressed in the past, I think the odds are pretty good.
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I did predict your daddy Obama twice other that I have been right on my predictions........You have been drinking to much of the DD koolaid.......Come up with something of your own for once.
 
Navy Pride said:
If Obama had not cut and run in Iraq prematurely things would be fine in Iraq and he going to do the same in Afghanistan....So are you saying we should not have helped Kuwait against a Saddam Hussein take over?
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By prematurely, you mean on schedule set before he took office, right?
 
Top Cat said:
:lamo

You have started two polls today. One in which 87% of pollsters disagree with you, the other 84%. Not your day.
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I just take into consideration when the polls are started at my left wing friend...........DP is hardly a bastion of conservatism.
 
Navy Pride said:
If Obama had not cut and run in Iraq prematurely things would be fine in Iraq
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LMAO. Those who don't pay attention to history.... Besides, we had no business going there in the first place.

Navy Pride said:
and he going to do the same in Afghanistan....
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Couldn't possibly be soon enough for me.

So are you saying we should not have helped Kuwait against a Saddam Hussein take over?
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So you are saying we shouldn't have gotten into WW2? See how easy this is?
 
Redress said:
By prematurely, you mean on schedule set before he took office, right?
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I don't think President Bush would have cut and run and take all the troops out of Iraq nor in Afghanistan where Obama is pulling everyone out...........we will be going back there to........Its only a matter of time.
 
Navy Pride said:
If Obama had not cut and run in Iraq prematurely things would be fine in Iraq and he going to do the same in Afghanistan....So are you saying we should not have helped Kuwait against a Saddam Hussein take over?
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So you wanted the Iraqi govt to be able to prosecute US service personnel.


But ending the U.S. troop presence in Iraq was an overwhelmingly popular demand among Iraqis, and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki appears to have been unwilling to take the political risk of extending it. While he was inclined to see a small number of American soldiers stay behind to continue mentoring Iraqi forces, the likes of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, on whose support Maliki's ruling coalition depends, were having none of it. Even the Obama Administration's plan to keep some 3,000 trainers behind failed because the Iraqis were unwilling to grant them the legal immunity from local prosecution that is common to SOF agreements in most countries where U.S. forces are based.

Iraq’s Government, Not Obama, Called Time on the U.S. Troop Presence | TIME.com
 
Top Cat said:
LMAO. Those who don't pay attention to history.... Besides, we had no business going there in the first place.



Couldn't possibly be soon enough for me.



So you are saying we shouldn't have gotten into WW2? See how easy this is?
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You need to tell me where I said that?:confused:
 
Gimmesometruth said:
So you wanted the Iraqi govt to be able to prosecute US service personnel.


But ending the U.S. troop presence in Iraq was an overwhelmingly popular demand among Iraqis, and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki appears to have been unwilling to take the political risk of extending it. While he was inclined to see a small number of American soldiers stay behind to continue mentoring Iraqi forces, the likes of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, on whose support Maliki's ruling coalition depends, were having none of it. Even the Obama Administration's plan to keep some 3,000 trainers behind failed because the Iraqis were unwilling to grant them the legal immunity from local prosecution that is common to SOF agreements in most countries where U.S. forces are based.

Iraq’s Government, Not Obama, Called Time on the U.S. Troop Presence | TIME.com
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We have almost a thousand troops now........Looks like the worked something out and it could have been done previously but your daddy had no stomach for it.
 
Navy Pride said:
I don't think President Bush would have cut and run and take all the troops out of Iraq nor in Afghanistan where Obama is pulling everyone out...........we will be going back there to........Its only a matter of time.
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So you are basing your claimns on the idea that Bush would not have done what he negotiated, and would have, supposedly, with zero evidence to actually support the contention, do what you think would have been, in hindsight, the right move. And you think that Obama should have done what you imagine Bush should have done, even though you would have bitched and moaned about how Obama had broken a campaign promise in doing so and was a liar, and should have just stuck to Bush's timetable if Obama had actually done it.
 
Navy Pride said:
I just take into consideration when the polls are started at my left wing friend...........
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You are not now or will you ever be my friend. I am rather selective in that regard.

Navy Pride said:
DP is hardly a bastion of conservatism.
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What you don't get is that many of your ilk voted against your inane question. 87%? 84%? :lamo :lamo This would suggest you are clearly to the right of Attila the Hun.
 
Bob Blaylock said:
I voted “No”, because I don't think we're on the “prefice” [sic] of World War III; I think its' been going on for more than thirty years.
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Almost every country in the ME is boiling over...............Russia is invading Ukraine.............When has it ever been like this in the last 30 years?
 
Top Cat said:
You are not now or will you ever be my friend. I am rather selective in that regard.



What you don't get is that many of your ilk voted against your inane question. 87%? 84%? :lamo :lamo This would suggest you are clearly to the right of Attila the Hun.
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My heart is broken my left wing friend....:lamo

Thank you.
 
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