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House Intel Committee Chair: US Is At ‘The Highest Threat Level We Have Ever Faced

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Anti-interventionism? We've been interfering continually. This is a result of the aggressive, imperial interventionism we've engaged in for decades.

Maybe if we truely engaged in non-intetventionist policies we wouldn't be so deep in the muck. Anti-war? HAHA, yeah right. That's just ridiculous.

Yes, and we have a moral obligation to be involved because we put many of the dictators in the ME in power. Now that the USSR has been defeated, we can removed these dictators from power.
 
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And your point is wrong. We fight now because we are under attack.

Well yes, that is certainly what they want you to think. A fearful populace is easy to manipulate.
 
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Yes, and we have a moral obligation to be involved because we put many of the dictators in the ME in power. Now that the USSR has been defeated, we can removed these dictators from power.

There is that, but seeing how that's backfired pretty much every time we do it, I think the bigger lesson is that we need to quit ****ing with other people's **** so much. We don't have a good track record.
 
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There is that, but seeing how that's backfired pretty much every time we do it, I think the bigger lesson is that we need to quit ****ing with other people's **** so much. We don't have a good track record.

As with so many things, it depends upon one's perspective.

We certainly DO have a good track record, if one is in the arms business.
 
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As with so many things, it depends upon one's perspective.

We certainly DO have a good track record, if one is in the arms business.

Or drugs, we're great at that too.
 
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Ah the old "they hate us for our freedom" schtick. Probably the silliest conspiracy theory of all time.:lamo

One of the greatest scholars of the Muslim world identified the problem as long ago as 1990. Read and learn.

[h=3]The Roots of Muslim Rage - The Atlantic[/h]www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...of-muslim-rage/304643/


The Atlantic


It was too much to endure, and the outbreak of rage against these alien, infidel, ..... Nor, of course, did the governments of the countries of origin of these Muslim ...
 
Re: House Intel Committee Chair: US Is At ‘The Highest Threat Level We Have Ever Face

Well yes, that is certainly what they want you to think. A fearful populace is easy to manipulate.

It is not a matter of manipulation. The situation is actually worse than is publicized.
 
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It is not a matter of manipulation. The situation is actually worse than is publicized.

It's clearly a matter of manipulation. Keep them fearful, keep them ignorant, and you can do whatever you want. That's the line the government takes here. Make us fear and then we won't question their power grabs, their forever war, their fascism. Just skipping down the road to hell.
 
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It's clearly a matter of manipulation. Keep them fearful, keep them ignorant, and you can do whatever you want. That's the line the government takes here. Make us fear and then we won't question their power grabs, their forever war, their fascism. Just skipping down the road to hell.

[h=1]“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”[/h]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Collected Works
 
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Well yes, that is certainly what they want you to think. A fearful populace is easy to manipulate.

I guess bombs in major population centers intended to kill innocent civilians is nothing to worry about. :roll:
 
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It is not a matter of manipulation. The situation is actually worse than is publicized.

Naw, you're right Jack--the authorities would NEVER attempt to deceive the populace or manipulate the public perception. Sure.

That's why Woodrow Wilson hired Freud's nephew Bernays--to sell WWI to the populace by way of Public Relations.

It seems you have drunk from the cup and like it very much. ;)
 
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I guess bombs in major population centers intended to kill innocent civilians is nothing to worry about. :roll:

I would say sharks along the North Carolina coast is a more legitimate worry, or floods and the ravages of mother nature.

More people die on US highways in a month or two than have ever been killed by angry arab terrorists.
 
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I would say sharks along the North Carolina coast is a more legitimate worry, or floods and the ravages of mother nature.

More people die on US highways in a month or two than have ever been killed by angry arab terrorists.

When sharks target innocent civilians to blow them to bits, get back to me.
 
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You're missing the point, which is that when US history contains events such as Pearl Harbor, half of the country choosing to secede and the civil war that resulted from it, and the revolutionary war which would resulted in the creation of our country, it is clearly incorrect to claim that we are at our highest threat level in history.

Please provide us with the information YOU have that the chief of US intel does not, and explain why you are withholding it.

Besides simply waiting til Pearl Harbor is attcked, waiting for another 911 isn't what this president has promised nor what the country needs.
 
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What reason would they have to attack us if we stand down and withdraw to our borders?



Hmm, was that what triggered 911 then? Being in Iraq? Or was it Afghanistan?
 
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Naw, you're right Jack--the authorities would NEVER attempt to deceive the populace or manipulate the public perception. Sure.

That's why Woodrow Wilson hired Freud's nephew Bernays--to sell WWI to the populace by way of Public Relations.

It seems you have drunk from the cup and like it very much. ;)

Woodrow Wilson was our most racist post-Civil War President and much else besides. That was a very different time and a very different situation.
 
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Please provide us with the information YOU have that the chief of US intel does not, and explain why you are withholding it.

Besides simply waiting til Pearl Harbor is attcked, waiting for another 911 isn't what this president has promised nor what the country needs.

Are you under the impression that a member of the House of Representatives is incapable of hyperbole? ISIS is nowhere near the international war capabilities of Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or the British Empire.
 
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There is that, but seeing how that's backfired pretty much every time we do it, I think the bigger lesson is that we need to quit ****ing with other people's **** so much. We don't have a good track record.

If we never had gotten involved in the ME, the USSR would have and we would be sitting in the USSR's shoes right now. That's my whole point. People are very poorly educated about history and don't understand the dynamics of the Cold War.
 
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If we never had gotten involved in the ME, the USSR would have and we would be sitting in the USSR's shoes right now. That's my whole point. People are very poorly educated about history and don't understand the dynamics of the Cold War.

I certainly agree that far too many are "poorly educated about history" but your statements fail to support your point in regards to ignorance about the West's actions in the Middle East during the 20th Century.
 
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If we never had gotten involved in the ME, the USSR would have and we would be sitting in the USSR's shoes right now. That's my whole point. People are very poorly educated about history and don't understand the dynamics of the Cold War.


Mornin' Capster. :2wave: Not many know that Reagans ME policy is what helped win the cold war and broke the Russians back.





How Reagan’s Mideast Policy Won the Cold War.....

Ronald Reagan’s centenary coincides with the unraveling of Ronald Reagan’s Middle East. The president born February 6, 1911, is most associated with the dramatic end of the Cold War in Europe. But you can make a powerful case that the Cold War was won — not in Europe — but in the Middle East.

Four events were decisive. 1. The Reagan administration cemented Egypt, the largest and most important Arab country, into the U.S. alliance system. 2. Reagan oversaw the weakening of the Soviet’s strongest Arab ally, Iraq. 3. Middle East events forced the Soviet Union toward an (ultimately doomed) reconstruction of its economy. 4. Then the final shove: In 1985, the Reagan administration persuaded Saudi Arabia to increase oil production.

The Reagan administration’s Middle East policy broke the Soviet empire. But no political achievement lasts forever.....snip~

How Reagan’s Mideast Policy Won the Cold War
 
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threat level red - the highest we have ever experienced
US Conservative/OP, please report to the DC Naval Yard and discuss this thread topic
 
Re: House Intel Committee Chair: US Is At ‘The Highest Threat Level We Have Ever Face

Are you under the impression that a member of the House of Representatives is incapable of hyperbole? ISIS is nowhere near the international war capabilities of Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or the British Empire.



OK

But I failed to note when Germany or Japan ever halted the entire united states transportation system for five days, destroy the twin towers, hit the Pentagon and kill over 3,000 people in a single day.

But if the Obama/Hilary brain trust says there is no threat, then absolutely there is no threat, and everyone kept their plan.

You drink way too much cool aid. The United States will be hit again, and soon under the current leadership.
 
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So your premise is that not only the intelligence committee, but the FBI (both of which know more than you) are pretending here. :lol:

There is hyperbole involved here-but its from you.

We are at that elevated threat level because as the same intelligence agencies pointed out in a 2006 paper, Bush's policies had caused an increase in global terrorism, and made America less safe, something you like to ignore!
 
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I certainly agree that far too many are "poorly educated about history" but your statements fail to support your point in regards to ignorance about the West's actions in the Middle East during the 20th Century.

The actions of the US today are a direct result of the actions during the cold war. We are where we are today in the ME because of the Cold War.
 
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