02-18-2017, 04:48 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-18-2017, 04:50 AM by Eric the Green.)
(02-18-2017, 02:25 AM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote: OK. I'll try and count properly this time.
1. A decision to bug out of the Middle East is like shooting fish in a barrel. I'm pretty sure global warming + the inhabitants' whacked out proclivities will ensure that situation will take care of itself on its own. It will become an *anarchic hell hole featuring Hobbesian war of all against all.
Trump is trying as hard as he can to make sure we continue to depend on their oil, and support Israel. It's safe to say we're going nowhere fast, when it comes to getting out of the Mid-East. It seems like a pipe dream to me.
Quote:2. OK. You can be a world citizen since that's your choice. I'm indifferent to how Eric views himself. As for Assad, let's do something different that we did in all of those other failures, which is to do nothing. Einsteinian definition of insanity and all that rot.
I'm glad you let me view myself as I wish. You might not be so sanguine about the fact that I think you're a world citizen too. We all are; that's the world we live in. So, I'd say, I'm not viewing myself that way. It's just the fact, man.
Quote:Who killed Qaddafi? Yes, a faction of Libyans did the actual kill, but Hillery cackled about her help here.
bwhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah pure eviillll
No, not pure evil at all, and not witchy. Not by a yuge long shot! Just a bit of hyperbole on her part. A bit of braggadocio and that's it.
Quote:3. Refugees/illegals/etc.
Obviously, with a current population of approx 320 million along with global warming's upcoming number on the land's carrying capacity, I highly recommend taking all steps to attempt a slow population decline. That includes restricted immigration along with rejiggering the tax code to essentially bribe folks to keep their litter's small. There will be no labor shortage due to mechanization.
Well, that's a bit better than your previous rant. I don't disagree, but I don't think whatever is done along those lines will relieve our labor surplus due to tech.
Quote:4. Isolationism.... leads to .... some big bad war war II situation. This makes no sense. The US before WWII was not a meddler. The conditions leading to WWII started in WWI and the hyperflation that destroyed Germany's economy. Those conditions don't exist now and nukes pretty much change the calculus of conducting a war like that to obtain resources. The resources are running out world wide and who wants to occupy a nuclear wasteland?
The West allowed Hitler to expand. But yes, it was also WWI and the depression that were causes. This whole time was the end of one age of civilization and the beginning of our own. Cataclysmic.
Quote:5. How does Trump's reduction in the number of refugees allowed cause blow-back? It's meddling by bombing/droning their stuff in their own living areas that does that sort of stuff.
That's an easy one. Singling out Muslims as he does insults them and provides propaganda for the terrorist recruiters and discourages needed allies everywhere. As far as I can tell, Trump's cutting off refugees entirely, not reducing the number. I agree about bombing, except that Obama's raids on the IS are carefully planned and necessary, and working well unless Drump mucks it up. Other than that, it's not a good strategy. We are lucky the Afghans haven't turned on us.