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Yeah, I can recall that election, going to the polls and hearing a neighbor enthuse repeatedly while waiting to vote that "It's so HISTORIC!" Didn't need to ask who she was voting for. Lost her job (we worked at the same place) due to layoffs a year or so later, wonder if she's rethought it...

You guys will believe anything. snopes.com: White House Been debunked. Not sure where you heard it, but you should question any other things that source may have told you.

Are you suggesting that Christians should not be allowed to run for office, or that Christians should not be allowed to vote for Christians? Would you want the same rule for other religions as well? The fact that they are Christian is incidental. They are not forcing anyone else to become...

You can think those things, but not kill people over it. You can think whatever you want. And so can your neighbor. That's the important part - not what you think, but your commitment to not kill your neighbor over what he thinks. I don't think anyone is playing that game. Muslims are doing...

What area? Cuba is to Iceland as India is to Kamchatka. That is, 4000 miles (6000 km) away. Cuba - Iceland is about the same as India - UK, only with more Canada in-between (direct route runs over Newfoundland, Canada) I think Iceland saw American regular troops leaving as an upgrade in the...

I think the best you can do, inside or outside the treaty is the best you can do. I don't like ignoring problems, but some are totally intractable without Europe (at least) cooperating. I think if you can get Europe on board, you have a chance at any problem, due to the economic weight of the...

Total non-sequitur. Really having a time of it. Do you believe that the US should be in a treaty that obliges us to stop genocide? Don't care about what happened before. Do you believe we should have that treaty or not? If you have conditions on it, fine, state them. But you aren't even...

You still have not answered my question, but I will answer yours: Yes. As the leader of a country treaty-bound to prevent genocide, yes, you advocate for the deployment of troops to prevent genocide, where possible. Alternatively, you point out to the people you are leading that they are...

I don't think there would be a point. Europe provided no significant support during the Korean War, don't see why they would help these days. And I'm not sure they could - what have they got? France has 1 carrier (dedicated to local interests), UK has 2 (on the way, without aircraft). Maybe...

I did not notice that. Thanks for pointing it out. Given that it was a discussion of just the region, it seems better to only show regional forces to avoid confusion.

I know, old thread. But firefighters have problems the world over: Firefighter handcuffed by CHP officer at accident scene speaks out - 10News.com KGTV ABC10 San Diego

Lots of BS on this thread. @senheiser 's graphic shows the ENTIRE Russian Navy, rather than just the Pacific Fleet. The US is hardly a "whole gang", it's one country. As depicted below, most US forces are not in the west pacific regularly. Anyhow... what I could find: Russia Pacific Fleet...

Are you saying that we should have, but didn't, or that we shouldn't have, but didn't. No one is contesting that THEY didn't. The question is: Should WE intervene when genocide is imminent? Genocides have occurred before, with other people running the governments of the time - our parents...

1) We were treaty-bound at that time too, and ignored the treaty. I suppose you could argue that if you ignore it once, it's ok to ignore it again, but we were then and still are treaty-bound to stop genocide (as are all other UN members). If you don't like the treaty, you should terminate...

If you care about genocide (and the US is treaty-bound to care) then yes they are a threat. They were directly threatening genocide, which is what got them bombed. Then the execution happened. It is their only response to bombing thus far. There should certainly have been more interest from...

Yeah, Europe is terrible about WWII, they think it started in '39. 1932 - Manchuria, leading to 1937 - China proper, would be better dates. But, you know, no Europeans were involved so it doesn't count. :-(

Most Americans are unhappy with the behavior of the police there. Note a couple of things: 1) This is a local police force, not a national or state police force. 2) The local police force have been criticized heavily by both media and politicians of both major parties. 3) The governor of...

Hollywood is in the top 3 in every film market covered by the UNESCO survey: Feature films : Exhibition - Indicators - look at the spreadsheet "Origin of top 5 countries of all feature films exhibited", and #1 in most of them. Further, Russia itself has passed a law to limit the number of...

Haha, two things: 1) I work with a Vietnamese-american guy who doesn't watch his mouth as well as he should, and his English, while good, is not perfect. The other day, we had another engineer (female, also viet) in our cube. I had a t-shirt on, she was trying to read it. The guy says "Stop...

This idea I can get behind. Let peace break out internationally, stop with the terrorism and Muslims killing everyone, and wait for the USA to fall apart.