Great post, I agree with just about everything you said, and I appreciate the information about the Tartus "base" which I didn't really understand...
I think that ANY nation in the US' current position would tend to over-reach if not become outright tyrannical when there's a lack of competition...
Really? This is Latest US and World news? Maybe you should take this kind of information to a forum related to entertainment?
I hope you're right, but I doubt it.
Are you sure you're not imposing your personal feelings about the US on other governments? Your views just don't seem to be supportable when you...
12 Bills Aimed at Locking Down the Surveillance State's Overreach IMO, the best case scenario out of all these is a combination of HR 2818...
At least I can admit when I'm wrong. As I said before, I'm not into any kind of point-scoring argument. I'm not going to start now. I'll try one...
just went to wikipedia and they seem to have different numbers than you. I would guess they've got a lot more now than the table from 2007 which...
I'll grant you, the US does exercises with Russia and China occasionally, I was wrong. I hadn't read up on the topic as well as I should have...
The highlighted section is definitely true, but we think about how to kick ass pretty thoroughly, more than most I'd say, and rarely consider blow...
I would posit that the HPG and PKK don't recognize the difference between Syrian Kurds and Turkish Kurds... or Iraqi Kurds, etc. They're all just...
which other nations and when were these agreements reached?
^^^^^^ what (s)he said. At least I posted some form of info to back what I said.
He didn't say he used google earth to find them, nor did he say he used google to find out. He said that YOU could use google (not google earth)...
China has just been approved to buy one of the US' largest pork production and distribution companies as well, but that doesn't really matter...
I didn't realize I was arguing with anybody or taking sides. I was just passing along information about the source's employer and what angles are...
AA is right, it's a bigger picture thing. But t's more about the fact that we don't want China to have access to it than the US needing it....
China, most likely... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya#Overall_Chinese_investment_and_trade
You do realize, of course, that there isn't a single professor at evergreen state that would condone swatting a fly, much less going to war,...
Right, so the US government does terrible thingsby ordering its military to do them, and its OK for our "allies" to use WMD's we'll even point out...
I'm pretty positive that Saddam's evacuation of chemical weapons wasn't assisted by the US. That's just crazy. We looked like total idiots on the...
meh... maybe for a while, but definitely since the beginning of the Cold War, I'd say we've had quite a slump.
You can play the "who is worse" game back and forth as long as you want, and you won't run out of nasty instances perpetrated by either side. It...
I'm pretty sure the US has thought about this a lot more than twice. Syria is a means to an end, and the US isn't worried about civilian...
the PKK(political) / HPG(military wing) has been fighting for sovereignty as a unified force since 1984. they've got a lot more experience than...
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