The current Iranian leader thinks he is chosen by Allah to wipe the Western world out of existence. Thats the driving force behind him. He is a true Muslim. The creed of which is simple: Convert or Die.
Don't give me any BS about it being rhetoric. That is his life goal... to live the life he was given. That of a prophet. The head of the great jihad. End of story. Diplomacy with your enimies is a fun game... ever notice both options when dealing with Iran lead to them getting what they want? They are stalling for time. Time to develop their military. Time to get nukes. Time for their hated though respected enemy to leave office. He does silly things like respect election outcomes.
(Note the Supreme court only ruled that the Florida courts can't apply new ballet counting methods to the current election. All changes effect the next election. 50 recounts and Gore never one a single count of them by any group. So Gore never one at all. Chads or not. Ever. New vote counting methods or not. Liberal counting: Bush won. Conservative counting: Bush won. Canibis smoking potatoes: Bush won.
Chads by the way only appear when 2 or more cards are in the machine. Dimpled chads indicate the machine had around 17 vote cards in the machine at once. Chads are a security feature. Get over it.)
Yes, most of his country would like him to shut up and stop poking the US with a stick. They don't like the US... but leave them alone. Most of the population is to young to remember the wars his venom comes from. Watch Iran they keep adding in little bits of Western culture to the society to keep the populous from revolting. The populous are more interested in living their lives rather than becoming martyrs. The truth is their opiniion matters little. They elected someone else anyway... the results indicated the current loony won. Investigations by his cronies into this have revealed he didn't cheat... just ask his cronies.
North Korea is lead by a second generation nutball. One that runs a country in a manner that means join the military or starve. Thats why he has such a large military. 2 million people mostly interested in eating. The Chinese are seeing him as increasingly crazy... Much of the army would probably desert if offered food and logging away from their crazy leader.
China is lead by a group of communists. If you believe anything out of their mouths your deluding yourself. The communist rulership recently discovered a new form of 'Communism with a Chinese twist' that will save their economy. It involves creating a new middle class the with use trade and cultural development to fix their economy. Everyone else just calls this capitalism. This is a country were a lawyer discovered a wide reaching corruption scheme and showed the press. He was charged with treason (3 years or so in jail) and the civilian (none government official the bribe officials seem to still be in office) who ran the construction and real-estate development company was also jailed. The treason in question was revealing state secrets.
Basically my point is this... It doesn't matter what you think!
What matters is what the crazy nutballs running other countries think. A lot of the things you said would get you jailed and disappeared. Same with me. It is illegal to point out things wrong with those countries.
Oh yes... Stop picking on Israel. The poor Jews have been everyones scapegoats for millennia. Seriously people, they can't get be innocent. Their neighbors stop trying to kill them only after losing wars against them. Seriously. They tossed a load of crazies from Jordan a few decades back because they were crazy. These Jordanians have now convinced themselves they are a 3000 year old culture that predates the Jews. They call themselves Palestinians.
Please remember it doesn't matter what you think. It doesn't matter what I think. Foreign policy is to be deal with by what the people with power think. Most of these countries mentioned are led by those needing straight jackets. Diplomacy is a fun, fun, silly, willy game to them. Diplomacy only works if both sides are interested and take it seriously.
Don't give me any BS about it being rhetoric. That is his life goal... to live the life he was given. That of a prophet. The head of the great jihad. End of story. Diplomacy with your enimies is a fun game... ever notice both options when dealing with Iran lead to them getting what they want? They are stalling for time. Time to develop their military. Time to get nukes. Time for their hated though respected enemy to leave office. He does silly things like respect election outcomes.
(Note the Supreme court only ruled that the Florida courts can't apply new ballet counting methods to the current election. All changes effect the next election. 50 recounts and Gore never one a single count of them by any group. So Gore never one at all. Chads or not. Ever. New vote counting methods or not. Liberal counting: Bush won. Conservative counting: Bush won. Canibis smoking potatoes: Bush won.
Chads by the way only appear when 2 or more cards are in the machine. Dimpled chads indicate the machine had around 17 vote cards in the machine at once. Chads are a security feature. Get over it.)
Yes, most of his country would like him to shut up and stop poking the US with a stick. They don't like the US... but leave them alone. Most of the population is to young to remember the wars his venom comes from. Watch Iran they keep adding in little bits of Western culture to the society to keep the populous from revolting. The populous are more interested in living their lives rather than becoming martyrs. The truth is their opiniion matters little. They elected someone else anyway... the results indicated the current loony won. Investigations by his cronies into this have revealed he didn't cheat... just ask his cronies.
North Korea is lead by a second generation nutball. One that runs a country in a manner that means join the military or starve. Thats why he has such a large military. 2 million people mostly interested in eating. The Chinese are seeing him as increasingly crazy... Much of the army would probably desert if offered food and logging away from their crazy leader.
China is lead by a group of communists. If you believe anything out of their mouths your deluding yourself. The communist rulership recently discovered a new form of 'Communism with a Chinese twist' that will save their economy. It involves creating a new middle class the with use trade and cultural development to fix their economy. Everyone else just calls this capitalism. This is a country were a lawyer discovered a wide reaching corruption scheme and showed the press. He was charged with treason (3 years or so in jail) and the civilian (none government official the bribe officials seem to still be in office) who ran the construction and real-estate development company was also jailed. The treason in question was revealing state secrets.
Basically my point is this... It doesn't matter what you think!
What matters is what the crazy nutballs running other countries think. A lot of the things you said would get you jailed and disappeared. Same with me. It is illegal to point out things wrong with those countries.
Oh yes... Stop picking on Israel. The poor Jews have been everyones scapegoats for millennia. Seriously people, they can't get be innocent. Their neighbors stop trying to kill them only after losing wars against them. Seriously. They tossed a load of crazies from Jordan a few decades back because they were crazy. These Jordanians have now convinced themselves they are a 3000 year old culture that predates the Jews. They call themselves Palestinians.
Please remember it doesn't matter what you think. It doesn't matter what I think. Foreign policy is to be deal with by what the people with power think. Most of these countries mentioned are led by those needing straight jackets. Diplomacy is a fun, fun, silly, willy game to them. Diplomacy only works if both sides are interested and take it seriously.
Quote:No they don't. They die in their jihad they get laid forever. Their own lives are expendable. They are getting post mortem nookie and stopping them with bullets won't stop them from getting it. In fact it will get them it.
They won't care if a few million of their people die as long as they surive.