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Killing a leader is a blow in the moral and political arenas. The actual war will be over when the majority of people and fighters on one or both sides believe they can achieve their goals _better_ through negotiations and politics rather than warfare. So the death of the next alQuada leader...

So Ghandi had nothing to do with it?..

As an outside observer, i see that: 1) Israeli's want too many concessions in negotiations from Palestinians. 2) Palestinians are delusional when they think they can remove Israel by force. Palestinians hold the key to peace and prosperity; by adopting a consistent policy of peaceful...

I was trying to stay polite.. But it seems you don't value polite comments. If you don't want people to respond ("you need to stfu"), don't go to public discussion forums.

Instead of investing intellectual and economic means into developing nuclear "power", isn't Iran better off building the infrastructure to utilize gas, and put a policy in place that sees their own population with the first priority in gas delivery? Gas tech is so much better than nuclear tech...

are you clamoring for war?

Iran has millions of tons of natural gas. Iran has plenty of sunlight. Why would Iran need nuclear energy at all? You seem to feed us the same lines as Ahmedinejad himself.. Quite frankly, I don't believe those answers.

if it's propaganda, then please explain where and how.. and don't just counter with iranian-govt approved counter propaganda about how they're just building medical isotopes. these videos may be a bit alarmingly edited, but the words of the iranians in it speak are enough to worry over.

While I agree the Iranian leadership cares for nothing but it's own well being, I don't agree that Israel is behaving like a good shepherd vis-a-vis the Palestinians. I've seen a documentary on AlJazeera in which ordinary palestinian business men have great difficulty with the importing of...

While I almost completely agree with your interpretation of the Quran and the divine, I cannot agree with your view of AlQuada.. The few decapitation videos that i've seen in which westerners were murdered by muslim extremists, did not have those people shout out before the end "these are...

what part do you want to know more about?

The US wouldn't need to spend so much on entitlements if they made economic growth more attainable to the middle and lower classes.

Ok, point taken. I stand corrected.

That's a good offer. I hope he takes it.

then you could've just asked him for proof instead of pointing out his country's wrongs?..

I have great hopes for these anonymous internet forums ;)

In my view, the Quran doesn't need to get changed / rewritten. You'd need a new Prophet for that. But the Sharia could use an update, by removing the punishments for "social crimes" and "critiques of the Prophet or faith".. Insecure xenophobes need to punish others for insulting their faith...

below_freezing, over and over again I see you blaming others to cover up or smooth over your own culture's mistakes. it's not only getting boring and predictable, it prevents any progress.

Someone asked me a specific question: "What has China done [wrong]?". I answered that question. Sometimes a list of wrongs serves to quiet down nationalistic chest-thumping. Sometimes it derails a discussion about the future into the past. But i'd rather not close my eyes completely to the...

Yea, they made some mistakes the last decade. I can agree to that. But they also did good things, often securing their economic/political interests at the same time as securing the freedom of peoples. Afghanistan is better off without the Taliban, South Korea is better off without "leadership"...