I failed to do my due diligence, my apologies. He is irresponsible and wrong on many of those counts.

I’d say he’s a pretty unbiased source. The fear of a holocaust was concocted ex-post facto to rally support to the Zionist cause.

The Israelis are making pretty strong demands of the Palestinians, and the quality of life there is shit because they are living in a giant camp under Israeli management. They are not all as radical as you make them out to be, angry yes, but somewhat justifiably so. Your argument that the Palestinians forfeited their…

Look at Venezuela, even the Dutch had this happen, though not with oil. The reason they fell apart despite the oil is that everyone expected a subsidy, that choked off their ability to profit. Socialism, taxes and transfers, slow growth no matter how many resources you have.

I am an American, not European, I am a red blooded capitalist, not some socialist looking for a hand out. Last I checked we only entered WW2 after we were attacked at home by Japan, it was not done to save the Jews or the British or the French, it was done in retaliation for killing Americans. This country was not…

That I can understand and I am very sorry for your loss, I just saw it as a cheap shot and an attempt to distract from the other innocents killed.

Naturally this is all my opinion, and I didn’t do shit about it as I was a child at the time. I don’t suggest that he didn’t deserve to be kicked out of Kuwait. Or that we are the only reason he invaded. But we did a lot more than kick him out of Kuwait. However, if the US military is going to do the bidding of a…

You call them transients, but they lived there the whole time and they have no state. Jordan was “Palestine” and the current rulers of Jordan are the kings ousted from Arabia by the House of Saud. I don’t argue that Islam is compatible with western values, but no extreme follower of religion truly is. The problem is…

I’m only writing a long post about this because I’ve been reading your critique of Putin for a long time, and I understand where it’s coming from. However, I think he might not be as bad as you make him out to be, and working with him is going to be more productive than working against him.

Neither a genocide nor a war would happen if the Israelis didn’t keep demanding that Israel be called a Jewish state. The majority of muslims are totally ok with coexisting with Jews, including Iranians, radicals (gulf whabbis/muslim brotherhood) less so. The sticking point is that the Israelis want to keep a Jewish…

Did we have an inspection agreement in place for that site at the time? If so that’s fair. I imagine the Polish wouldn’t want Russians poking around though. Plus, I thought we started installing them under Bush, so wouldn’t the tac-nuke tomahawks still have been in the inventory at the time? I can’t imagine it would…

Stop it, of all people, you chose a woman. A woman defending the Wahabbi monarchs who would have her beaten her in the street if she was not accompanied by a man or covered from head to toe. Don’t you see the hypocrisy? Your commanders have brainwashed you, and the military has stolen your ability to empathize with…

What was the point of us building the UN and helping to draft all of its rules if we threw them out the window the second things got messy? Oh I forgot, the rules only apply when they’re convenient and not to our allies, as long as they sell us oil.

Weren’t the MK41 launchers universal? I think that they were worried about us swapping out the missiles with tomahawks. I’m sure we can bomb them 10 ways to Sunday, but not before that guy in the log cabin in Siberia gets his message out to their subs. I read that in a Clancy novel or something.

Look, American life > Iraqi life, we get it. But our reasons for the war are what bother me. It was to protect a bunch of brutal dictators from another brutal dictator. Because the ones we protected sold oil on the cheap and could afford to hire us. We were mercenaries, we had no moral high ground. They are cartels,…

The ambiguity was conveyed to him prior to his invasion. That’s the controversy, she was like we’re gonna be hands off. He misread it as a green light. We stopped him after the fact.

Unless you got orders before he crossed the border, which makes it even stranger that she would say what she said.

Wasn’t her convo with Saddam prior to his invasion of Kuwait? Once he did it we were like, you know what... maybe we should stop him.

We didn’t make an omelette. We took a giant dump on the floor and walked away.

I never said the person who inherits the wealth earns it directly, someone in their family did though. No one else has claim over that money, taxes were already levied on each year of income. You want to take money away from a family because one member of that family died. What if person’s partner forfeited a career…