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Postby Kubra » Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:13 pm

Stormwind-City wrote:
Kubra wrote: so you think an invasion of iran will cause THE PEOPLE! to heroically overthrow their oppressors?

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now i get the joke
yeah, it might just get them to heroically overthrow their oppressors
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Postby Vilatania » Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:13 pm

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Vilatania wrote:We need to LEAVE the middle-east entirely. That is our best option.

That's the genocide option,

Hardly genocide to mind our own business.
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Postby Earl of Sandwich IV » Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:14 pm

Kubra wrote:
Earl of Sandwich IV wrote:As he mentioned military defeat has undermined the support of regimes in the past. No one knows what the effects might be. There is no leap of logic here.
The instances listed were genuinely unpopular regimes in the process of collapsing in the first place. Anyone who would bother to know the history would know such. This guy, on the other hand, just goes "well it worked these times so it'll work for us, right?" That ain't how you decide foreign policy.

No, that's not what he said. Anyone who can read would know such. He said it's unpredictable.

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Postby Kubra » Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:17 pm

Earl of Sandwich IV wrote:
Kubra wrote: The instances listed were genuinely unpopular regimes in the process of collapsing in the first place. Anyone who would bother to know the history would know such. This guy, on the other hand, just goes "well it worked these times so it'll work for us, right?" That ain't how you decide foreign policy.

No, that's not what he said. Anyone who can read would know such. He said it's unpredictable.
If he was saying it was unpredictable, he would have given counter-examples. But this ain't an article about the unpredictability of the outcomes of foreign policy decisions. It's about invading Iran. Seems he's pretty geared towards the hope on THE PEOPLE!
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Postby Reddogkeno101 » Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:18 pm

Earl of Sandwich IV wrote:
Kubra wrote: The instances listed were genuinely unpopular regimes in the process of collapsing in the first place. Anyone who would bother to know the history would know such. This guy, on the other hand, just goes "well it worked these times so it'll work for us, right?" That ain't how you decide foreign policy.

No, that's not what he said. Anyone who can read would know such. He said it's unpredictable.

And tell me, what is wrong with Iran? What have they done explicitly to cause this sabre rattling?
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Postby Earl of Sandwich IV » Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:18 pm

Kubra wrote:
Earl of Sandwich IV wrote:No, that's not what he said. Anyone who can read would know such. He said it's unpredictable.
If he was saying it was unpredictable, he would have given counter-examples. But this ain't an article about the unpredictability of the outcomes of foreign policy decisions. It's about invading Iran. Seems he's pretty geared towards the hope on THE PEOPLE!

What don't you understand? Is the word 'perhaps' hard for you to understand? Seems pretty clear to me.
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Postby Stormwind-City » Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:18 pm

Kubra wrote:
Earl of Sandwich IV wrote:No, that's not what he said. Anyone who can read would know such. He said it's unpredictable.
If he was saying it was unpredictable, he would have given counter-examples. But this ain't an article about the unpredictability of the outcomes of foreign policy decisions. It's about invading Iran. Seems he's pretty geared towards the hope on THE PEOPLE!

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Postby New Neros » Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:19 pm

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Kubra wrote: If he was saying it was unpredictable, he would have given counter-examples. But this ain't an article about the unpredictability of the outcomes of foreign policy decisions. It's about invading Iran. Seems he's pretty geared towards the hope on THE PEOPLE!

THE PEOPLE! needs to become a NS meme.

So forced, no thanks.
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Postby Stormwind-City » Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:20 pm

Earl of Sandwich IV wrote:
Kubra wrote: If he was saying it was unpredictable, he would have given counter-examples. But this ain't an article about the unpredictability of the outcomes of foreign policy decisions. It's about invading Iran. Seems he's pretty geared towards the hope on THE PEOPLE!

What don't you understand? Is the word 'perhaps' hard for you to understand? Seems pretty clear to me.

The US found out what happens when you base your invasions on 'perhaps'.
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Postby Stormwind-City » Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:21 pm

New Neros wrote:
Stormwind-City wrote:THE PEOPLE! needs to become a NS meme.

So forced, no thanks.

THE PEOPLE! disagree.
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Postby Kubra » Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:21 pm

New Neros wrote:
Stormwind-City wrote:THE PEOPLE! needs to become a NS meme.

So forced, no thanks.
Pretty sure I've taken it from somewhere else in the first place
it wasn't Les Misérables
i think
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Postby Stormwind-City » Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:22 pm

Kubra wrote:
New Neros wrote:So forced, no thanks.
Pretty sure I've taken it from somewhere else in the first place

Who cares, if we kill off the original users of it we can claim the origin.
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Postby New Neros » Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:22 pm

Kubra wrote:
New Neros wrote:So forced, no thanks.
Pretty sure I've taken it from somewhere else in the first place
it wasn't Les Misérables
i think

Every communist/socialist speech ever has THE PEOPLE in it, I'm sure.
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Postby Stormwind-City » Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:24 pm

New Neros wrote:
Kubra wrote: Pretty sure I've taken it from somewhere else in the first place
it wasn't Les Misérables
i think

Every communist/socialist speech ever has THE PEOPLE in it, I'm sure.

According to some posters here, NS is a giant communist cesspool.
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Postby RSU Helping Hand » Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:24 pm

War will only cease when America is the only Nuclear Superpower...and THAT is a timeline I wouldn't want to live in. Bleak, filled with threats by the American Regime to two petty non-nuclear countries fighting for land...but what should I know? I am merely a teenager in some world dominated by nuclear power and Capitalism (which puts the "sin" in business"...)
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Postby Reddogkeno101 » Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:25 pm

Stormwind-City wrote:
New Neros wrote:Every communist/socialist speech ever has THE PEOPLE in it, I'm sure.

According to some posters here, NS is a giant communist cesspool.

What are they talking about? We're clearly fascist zionist nazis! /sarcasm
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Postby Earl of Sandwich IV » Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:25 pm

Stormwind-City wrote:
Earl of Sandwich IV wrote:What don't you understand? Is the word 'perhaps' hard for you to understand? Seems pretty clear to me.

The US found out what happens when you base your invasions on 'perhaps'.

If you're looking for certainty, you might want to stay away from politics in general. Or pretty much anything else.

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Postby Kubra » Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:26 pm

New Neros wrote:
Kubra wrote: Pretty sure I've taken it from somewhere else in the first place
it wasn't Les Misérables
i think

Every communist/socialist speech ever has THE PEOPLE in it, I'm sure.
and if i recall correctly the thought process listed earlier resulted in a good few defeats for the red army and the french national guard.
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Postby Saiwania » Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:27 pm

Benian Republic wrote:No the US should not go to war with Iran for countless reasons, one is that they are still helping HAMAS.


Stellar reason you've got there, as if it is in the US national interests to side with or give a shit about Hamas, and not because Iran would have Russia on its side that would escalate the situation towards disaster if an invasion of Iran was attempted.
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Postby Crezilivion » Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:29 pm

How is invading Iran going to help us at all unless we discover they have some plot to attack us? I don't think Iran is stupid enough to attack us or our allies. I also don't think any President has the desire to invade it because the hate quite frankly could get him/her impeached easily. The majority of the people from all sides don't want another war, if another one occurred there would likely be an outrage.War on Iran is definitely not a good idea unless we are provoked.
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Postby Myrensis » Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:31 pm

Saiwania wrote:
Benian Republic wrote:No the US should not go to war with Iran for countless reasons, one is that they are still helping HAMAS.


Stellar reason you've got there, as if it is in the US national interests to side with or give a shit about Hamas, and not because Iran would have Russia on its side that would escalate the situation towards disaster if an invasion of Iran was attempted.


There would be no escalation, there would be no need for it. Russia might provide some under the table support to Iran, but otherwise they have no reason to do anything other than sit back and laugh as America throws blood and money into a black hole and completely destroys it's role as a 'leader' in international affairs. Keeping in mind, short of Iran doing something severely stupid, this hypothetical war only comes about if Republicans tell Russia, China, and our own European allies to go fuck themselves because we're doing this the 'MURICAN WAY.

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Postby Reddogkeno101 » Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:31 pm

Crezilivion wrote:How is invading Iran going to help us at all unless we discover they have some plot to attack us? I don't think Iran is stupid enough to attack us or our allies. I also don't think any President has the desire to invade it because the hate quite frankly could get him/her impeached easily. The majority of the people from all sides don't want another war, if another one occurred there would likely be an outrage.War on Iran is definitely not a good idea unless we are provoked.

Well the friendly neighbourhood Republicans seem to think it's a good idea. Pretty much wanting to throw diplomacy and negotiation out the window isn't exactly seen as diplomatic; in fact it's interpreted as wanting to invade.
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Postby Land and Freedom » Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:38 pm

Earl of Sandwich IV wrote:
Land and Freedom wrote:
There's some ridiculous leaps of logic in the article, yes.

There's no leap of logic here.


The Iranians will rise up and overthrow their government, joining the Americans with glee, just like the North Vietnamese did when they bombed Hanoi to smithereens. Or like the Cubans did after the Bay of Pigs. No leap of logic at all....

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Postby Land and Freedom » Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:38 pm

Republic of Coldwater wrote:Fuck no.

We would be much better allowing free trade with Iran, and just see Iran completely falter as their populace changes their opinion on the west.


Not sure that'll happen...

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