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The UN commander is insipid. This is the kind of approach that saw the Dutch stand by while Serbian paramilitaries executed 8000 muslims. Srebrenica massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The job of a peacekeeper is to ensure all the factions are behaving. If you are only going to stand...

The topic kind of expanded to include women moving overseas via marriage, as it is believed by some to be a similar phenomenon - a way of getting citizenship in another country. I've seen some BBC articles, but never hard numbers. I assume you mean stuff like 5 Reasons for a Brit to Marry an...

There are people all over the world that want to marry and move somewhere else. Individual anecdotes aren't very useful, total number tell a more useful story, if you are trying to understand the flow of people. If you know of solid numbers, I would love to see them. The best I could find was...

Dude, that's totally my point. Maybe they DON'T WANT TO BE THAT CLOSE TO RUSSIA!! It should be up to them, not automatic because they are unfortunate enough to live next door to modern imperialists. You seem to have real trouble with the idea of voluntary relationships - that Kazakhstan (or...

Mmm, I understood the article to say that China does not allow that. If you have US citizenship, you must surrender it to get Chinese citizenship. You're supposed to do that in the US too (surrender previous citizenship) but there is no real way to check for another passport (you could keep it...

Spain doesn't see it that way. I'm not saying I agree, I'm saying there is a dispute. Disputed status of Gibraltar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Yep. Look up Cyprus. There are other disputed islands as well, and the conflict between Turkey and Greece goes back a long time. The UN is...

yeah, repost of I Want an American Baby! Chinese Women Flock to the U.S. to Give Birth Read more: Birth Tourism: Ch I only know because it's in the link list below. People from all over do it, not just Chinese. Devyani Khobragade apparently got her kids US citizenship. Humorously, India was...

RIP to the departed, prayers for the family. @orangzaib - could I ask, please, what is your connection to Pakistan? you talk (content-wise) as if you are from there, but with an apparently US-native speech pattern, so I'm curious. Feel free to ignore if it's too personal. I have several...

Ha! I scrolled by fast, and saw the thumbnail first - i initially took that light behind him to be some kind of funny hat, and thought "what the hell is India doing to him?!". Time to make an eye appointment, apparently.

Mmm, given Russia's behavior wrt Georgia and the Ukraine, if I was Kazakhstan, I'd be working furiously on my border defenses. When Russia wants to increase its influence, hold on to the family jewels.

I don't mean this as a critical comment toward Turkey. The "You are a level 3 partner!" thing just sounds so Amway. Did they give away tote bags for a "Level 3" commitment? Seriously, just sell the planes or don't. Sheez! Marketing drones!

NATO was formed in 1949. Ireland achieved independence in 1922, following a 1918 declaration of independance. They have been arguing ever since about whether the 6 counties of Northern Ireland should or should not be part of Ireland, including a fair amount of violence on both sides. It's...

NATO was formed when Germany was divided into two countries. I'd call that a "territorial dispute". Also, Turkey and Greece. Also UK (N. Ireland, India, numerous other colonies), France (numerous colonies), Belgium (numerous colonies), US (Puerto Rico, at least), so on and so forth. Spain...

I'm curious how you think the police should react? Someone calls in with a hostage situation, you want a single officer to go out and knock on the door politely? How do Russian or German police react when hostage situations are called in? This seems like a problem you don't have in German and...

Yeah, this is not really a problem of over-policing. You understand this is rival gamers calling in false police reports to get revenge on their opponents? Pretty despicable, and illegal, but hard to catch people doing it. Its been pulled on celebrities as well, just as a way to annoy people...

Do you have links? i would like to see that.

interesting concept, trying to predict social/political change by tracking changes in search strings. Do you have more leads on anyone doing this?

No, the difference is that I don't brag about history that is embarrassing. Muslims go on and on about how good it was, when it wasn't (unless you were Muslim). The West has gotten better. The Muslim world, exemplified by you, still longs for the days when they dominated others. To say...

Better than being Russian, invading your neighbors and lying about it. A little humility now and again is not a bad thing.

Um, no. This is "Muslim tolerance" in which you can do (religiously) what the Muslim rulers tell you to do, at best. The millet system in the Ottoman empire assigned you a religion based on the community you were from, and you had no personal say in the matter. That is not freedom of religion...