I suppose in the times ahead we'd warm to Assad and lean on him to reform, part and parcel with this would be Assad giving up a portion of Syria and combining that with a portion of Iraq for a homeland for the Kurds and safezone for the refugees.
I'm closest to Trump's America first foreign policy, however, something needs to be done about the outlandish parts. You and me both agree that Mexico paying for Trump's wall is ridiculous and likewise expecting the gulf states to pay for and organise these safe zones is not going to happen. We'll have to spend something of our own money on building the wall and helping the Kurds and refugees out. If there is a people in the middle east worth investing in then it's the Kurds.
What we don't want to do is give Putin the impression that a victory for Assad against ISIS is also a victory against the West. Indifference to whether Assad stays in power or not is the wise attitude.
Obama is listening to your military and keeping out of it, I think Hillary would rather go in all guns blazing, topple Assad and leave the future of Syria to ISIS(or the next incarnation of such)when American troops pull out.
If I was the state I'd be looking at partitioning Iraq and setting up a Kurdish nation which doubles as a safe zone for refugees. Iraq would be a blueprint for Syria's future when they tire of fighting.
You can't live as tho a nuclear holocaust is going to happen to you..
And even still the slim chance of one happening doesn't mean we have to give everything to Russia on Russia's terms. We have nukes, too, you know? We're not an old woman incapable of defending ourselves and it's a mistake to ever show Putin how spineless we are no matter the reason.
It would be better if we addressed conflicts which are actually happening and will only continue: ethnic meltdown, the rise of the robots, and mass social unrest. Wars of the 21st century will be civilian wars, the fear of a nuclear holocaust is a pointless 20th century relic.
Nerd elitism versus jock populism dominates the conflict of our times. I don't know much about Jill Stein, but as for Gary Johnson I'd say his nerd elitist vote will either go to Hillary or try to hijack the Trumpening: there's simply no room to carve out a nerd elitism for right wingers and they'll settle for Hillary and live with her morbidly inefficient social welfare programs or they will ingratiate themselves with the Trumpening and try to remove all talk of race, gender, class, and nationalism, but keep the tax cuts bit.
Not really what I'm driving at. The "genuine" articles are made from what? How does someone make a forgery that good? I'd love to know as my £27 notes are getting me nowhere.
There's something I'm not telling you about my orphans - I killed their parents. On the surface I am prickly but underneath I am really gentle, and beneath that is a monster.
That's the twist in the tale, no one knows about the orphanage I'm building singlehandedly or the shrine to the goddess of love erected in my back garden.
The point is having something in your life which takes priority over your own morbid reflections. Parents are happier and that's a scientific fact. This isn't to say go and get pregnant by the nearest idiot, but entertain the idea of having something/someone in your life more important than you.
Oh I wouldn't say worst for humanity. To be worst is at least to be something significant if only in a bad way. Comfort zones and mediocrity set the tone of the age and rather than heroes and villains what we have is a selfish moral blank whose lazy cynicism and sneering ironic take on things encapsulate everything wrong with modern generations.
Common sense is fairly uncommon, I know. Ok then. What about the scientifically verifiable view that blacks are simply less intelligent? Or if that's too much hurty hurty how about the argument that human nature exists and evolution occurs?
There is an intelligent argument you could make which is blacks haven't fully experienced the Flynn effect meaning that they won't remain less intelligent in future. I'd agree that they haven't, or at least not to the same extent as others, yet this still does not imply equality of intelligence at the end.
I actually find Sanders quite refreshing and a step away from a lot of things which are really bad about the modern left, but looked what happened to him - screwed by his own side.
It's a difficult one as there are many ways to skin a cat and many ways to leave the EU. Really whatever happens politics should respect the spirit of the Brexit vote which more than anything else was a vote against mass immigration. If democracy means anything then control of our borders must take priority in all negotiations.
And of course Brexit. The truth is that Corbyn doesn't like the EU and he's most like Mike on the forums here, but because he's a coward he backed the bourgeois bohemians whom love the EU. He went against the workers and sided with the public sector middle class.
Can you imagine what a strong position Corbyn would be in now if he had obeyed his own principles and supported Brexit just like the working class he's trying to win over? Labour would be a very serious opposition now had Corbyn been the only mainstream leader to support Brexit, and if he'd done this as well as toning down the BoBo values, then Labour would reclaim the working class heartlands and win the next election.
I think they're a public sector middle class party out to thwart the ambitions of the working class and Corbyn trying to blend Old Socialism with bourgeois bohemian values is a disaster for them. Poor folk might like Corbyn talking like a Socialist but so long as this includes rich folk goals of genderbending and mass immigration it's going nowhere with the workers.
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RE: Defcon 3 level alert issued
Phenomenally easy or hopelessly repressed - life in a multculture must be one of the two lest it burst into pieces like a frog.