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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:
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.
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You are contradicting yourself, which is it, he worked it out.....or has no "stomach"?

PS....what is a "precifice" Is it when you make faces against a window?
 
Navy Pride said:
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?
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My dog died.

Thanks alot Obummer.
 
Navy Pride votes. A symbol of the downfall of the democratic system.
 
Top Cat said:
This would suggest you are clearly to the right of Attila the Hun.
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He is actually pretty far to the left of most posters. When you call for nationalization of the oil industry you are a socialist, the real kind.
 
Redress said:
He is actually pretty far to the left of most posters. When you call for nationalization of the oil industry you are a socialist, the real kind.
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Ha!

I remember that!

Hee-hee
 
Navy Pride said:
Since the world is exploding the question begs to be asked.
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Eight years ago I started a thread at another site entitled "ISRAEL - IRAN - SYRIA - HAMAS - HEZBOLLAH - WWWIII?"
My talking points were based on this excerpt:

Iran thumbs its nose at Western diplomats and continues nuclear enrichment. Hamas's chief, speaking from Damascus, boasts about kidnapping an Israeli soldier. Hezbollah launches a cross-border raid, prompting Israeli retaliation in Beirut and a return volley of rockets on northern Israel. Just another bleak week in the hopeless Middle East? Regrettably, no. This one was different. This was the week the Dark Side went on the offensive.

Iran, Syria, Hamas, and Hezbollah: These are not marginal fringe groups. The first two are sovereign states, the third forms the elected government of the Palestinian Authority, and the fourth holds 25 of the 128 seats in the Lebanese parliament and, effectively, two ministerial portfolios. This was the week that the rogue regimes of the "Old Middle East"--as opposed to the shadowy, faceless terrorist groups of the "New Middle East"--reminded the world that they too have the potential to grab headlines and wreak havoc. . . .

. . . .That's a lot of tough talk about war, face-offs, and showdowns, even for the Middle East, but what makes this train of events more worrisome than a typical week in the region is that these events--and their perpetrators--are all connected. No, this is not another Middle East conspiracy theory; to paraphrase Henry Kissinger's line about paranoids, sometimes bad guys shooting at you from all directions just might be in cahoots. In fact, the quartet of Iran, Syria, Hamas, and Hezbollah constitutes a better oiled, more cohesive unit than the diplomatic quartet of the United States, the U.N., the E.U., and Russia. Indeed, the rogue foursome is linked ideologically and operationally in a much more organic way than the charter members of the Axis of Evil ever were. . . .
The Rogues Strike Back | The Weekly Standard​

That was in 2006 when it looked like the Middle East was going to completely blow up and the world was looking rather nervously at Russia, North Korea, China and other large powers who had a vested interest in taking sides.

So the names change a bit from year to year, but is now all that much different than then? Or during the post WWII decades as Russia dragged country after country into the U.S.S.R.? Or in 1948 when almost the entire Middle East was mobilizing to wipe the newly formed state of Israel off the map?

The Bible says there are always wars and rumors of wars. There is a lot of wisdom there.
 
There's no such thing as a precifice, that's an incorrect spelling of the word precipice by someone who doesn't know how to spell.

Look at a dictionary.
 
Navy Pride said:
The results of this poll shock me......
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:lamo :lamo Would you mind if I quoted you on my signature line with this?

All I can say is you people who voted no live in fantasy land.........
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87% :lamo

I am usually pretty accurate on my political positions on the issues
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OMG, yet another signature! This thread is comedy gold!

but hope and pray I am wrong about this one.
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I'll talk to the big guy for you.
 
shrubnose said:
There's no such thing as a precifice, that's an incorrect spelling of the word precipice by someone who doesn't know how to spell.

Look at a dictionary.
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The fish guy borrowed it.
 
Tough crowd on this board.

At the risk of having insults lobbed at me, I will say that I think the question in the poll isn't all that unreasonable given how unsettled some parts of this world are. We had 2 world wars in the last 100 years. It's not like he asked about the possibility of another virgin birth or sacrificing Christians to lions.

I'm also watching my spelling.
 
tres borrachos said:
Tough crowd on this board.

At the risk of having insults lobbed at me, I will say that I think the question in the poll isn't all that unreasonable given how unsettled some parts of this world are. We had 2 world wars in the last 100 years. It's not like he asked about the possibility of another virgin birth or sacrificing Christians to lions.
I'm also watching my spelling
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Good for you, I try hard to watch mine, but any human being can make a mistake, a misspelled word isn't worth starting WWIII over.
 
Navy Pride said:
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?
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Another POV is that these wars, though consistent, are also steadily getting smaller. Compare every war since WWII in terms of casualties/time.

This is a good trend!

Also, the notion of massed ground armies is obsolete at the upper tiers of the game. Precision standoff weapons makes that a death sentence.

Only in backwaters that can't keep up is that effective, and then only on each other.
 
Navy Pride said:
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.
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You predicted that Obama was my daddy? Really? Sorry, but that's impossible from a chronological and a racial standpoint.
 
Navy Pride said:
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.
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LOL....you can generally take solace in the fact that if NP predicts something....and you want the exact opposite to occur....you are in pretty darn good shape.
 
Top Cat said:
It was all rainbows and unicorns when Dubya was in office. Now it's Chicken Little time.
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Six years into this clown's presidency and you still blaming President Bush.........Does Obama ever get blamed for all tthe **** ups he has made?
 
Dittohead not! said:
You predicted that Obama was my daddy? Really? Sorry, but that's impossible from a chronological and a racial standpoint.
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If Obama ever had a sudden stop you would be so far up his ass you would never get out.......
 
WillyPete said:
Another POV is that these wars, though consistent, are also steadily getting smaller. Compare every war since WWII in terms of casualties/time.

This is a good trend!

Also, the notion of massed ground armies is obsolete at the upper tiers of the game. Precision standoff weapons makes that a death sentence.

Only in backwaters that can't keep up is that effective, and then only on each other.
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You really don't have to worry about Russia but a nuke or dirty placed in NY or LA by a rogue nation..........do I have to say more?
 
Navy Pride said:
You really don't have to worry about Russia but a nuke or dirty placed in NY or LA by a rogue nation..........do I have to say more?
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What bearing do recent events have on that concern?

Bad as it would be, even THAT wouldn't trigger WW3. We'd smash whoever did it flat, sure.

If anything, MAD doctrine protects us better from such "rogue states" than it does major nations, as they have no hope of surviving the first round of escalation.
 
tres borrachos said:
Tough crowd on this board.

At the risk of having insults lobbed at me, I will say that I think the question in the poll isn't all that unreasonable given how unsettled some parts of this world are. We had 2 world wars in the last 100 years. It's not like he asked about the possibility of another virgin birth or sacrificing Christians to lions.

I'm also watching my spelling.
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But the problem with the wars since WWII is that so few have the stomach to win them. And if somebody does win one, everybody jumps on the winner and demands they give everything back to the loser. The outcome of WWII for much of the world was a long and lasting peace because there were clear winners and losers and the winners had full license to call all the shots. So by use of overwhelming force, pulling no punches, and showing no mercy to the enemy, and accepting collateral damage as the wages of war, we brought Germany, Italy, Japan to unconditional surrender. And we could set the conditions by which they would get their countries back and we wound up with friends instead of ruthless enemies and nations that are an asset to the world instead of a danger to it. That's often what happens when wars are fought to win them.

But since that time we fight politically correct wars with do's and don'ts and with no intention of bringing anybody to unconditional surrender. So the cost in blood and treasure for military and civilians alike is just as high but there are no winners. We just fight them for a time and then stop fighting them. And we leave more enemies, not friends, in the wake each time. Nobody can amass enough power at this time to take on the USA head on militarily. Or our allies knowing we will come to their defense. But they can engage in hit and run, sabotage, terrorist acts with virtual impunity knowing that we may strike back, but all they have to do is hunker down until PC kicks in and public opinion requires us to back off. And they then declare victory and go at it again.

WWIII? We've probably been in it for quite some time now. But it is PC war on our side, and do whatever they can get away with on theirs.
 
WillyPete said:
What bearing do recent events have on that concern?

Bad as it would be, even THAT wouldn't trigger WW3. We'd smash whoever did it flat, sure.

If anything, MAD doctrine protects us better from such "rogue states" than it does major nations, as they have no hope of surviving the first round of escalation.
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You ever hear of North Korea, Iran. Hamas, Talaban, etc.
 
Navy Pride said:
You ever hear of North Korea, Iran. Hamas, Talaban, etc.
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Yes. All of which have been a pain in the ass in one way or another for decades.

This whole "ZOMG WORLD WAR III IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER" garbage is alarmist nonsense, completely without merit.
 
Navy Pride said:
You ever hear of North Korea, Iran. Hamas, Talaban, etc.
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NP, I'm assuming you don't know what a World War looks like do you? None of those countries, hell, all of those countries, couldn't start a World War...
 
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