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And this is why Pakistan will never change. It's already just as good as anywhere else in the minds of too many of its own citizens.

Say rather she was strangled by her brother who had no fortitude, morals, wisdom or honor of his own.

Sanctions aren't helping, but it's oil prices, primarily, that are the problem.

Patton Flags of our Fathers/Letters from Iwo Jima Tora, Tora, Tora (but definitely NOT Pearl Harbor) and of course, Saving Private Ryan - for the Normandy invasion sequence alone Glory - may be a bit to America specific for some

Thanks - but that's not quite what I'm asking. The US has vocational schools - where you'd go to learn to be an electrician, or a plumber or the like. Something technical, which would lead to an apprenticeship level position, and thence to a career. The US also has community colleges, which...

Nope. The Declaration of Independence has no legal authority. You have your documents mixed up. Further, the newest amendments to the constitution (logically) are more important than the older ones, legally. That is, if one amendment says alcohol is illegal, and another says it's legal, then...

Is there anything similar to the concept of a community college in Pakistan? I personally did very poorly in high school - I barely graduated. But, 4 years later I started community college (very inexpensive) and eventually completed a 4 year software engineering degree (with pretty a pretty...

Yep. Farmers are useful. Bureaucrats, not so much. There is a difference between what is and what should be. "Meant" implies that is the way a thing should be. In this case, the poor in Pakistan are serving the rich. But that is not the way it should be, thus, this arrangement was not...

Australians are big on medals per capita, because they can then claim to be better than the US (and UK). Nevermind the limits on how many people you can send per event is the same for big and small countries, and number of qualifiers tracks well with medal counts - every competitor you send has...

eh? India has 2 medals, meaning 2/1.2 billion. Not particularly outstanding. But Pakistan was 0/190 million. 2/1,200,000,000 is bigger than 0/anything. But it's a bad measure anyhow. You can only send 2 or 3 athletes per event, so per capita medal count will favor smaller countries. The...

You always have to play the game. The ones who "should" win sometimes don't. The challenger deserves a chance to beat the champion.

Nigeria was an interesting case. The rule with the US is: DON'T TRY TO RUN ON THEM!!! You'll both get tired, and their bench is WAY WAY better than yours. And, they're really good at running anyhow. Nigeria, unfortunately, was a running team. Their choice was to play totally against their...

You qualify for the Olympics, you're doing pretty well, IMHO. You still have to play the games, because you never know. The last Olympic softball tourney had a preliminary round that looked like this: W L Score For Score Against US 7 0 53...

It happens. Particularly for big countries with lots of sporting culture. The US women's field hockey team beat Argentina today. I've never seen field hockey played, and was a bit surprised to hear we actually qualified a team... but you know, you have a lot of athletes, you'll get a few that...

Sub-contracting to Pakistan lead to the Taliban taking over in the first place. Getting Pakistan out of Afghani affairs would be a start to cleaning up Afghanistan.

Mmm, I would like the US to stop supporting Turkey. I don't think Turkey is an ally - the is a lot of anti-American sentiment, and the repression the Turkish government is using right now is a serious problem. Further, Turkish behavior in regard to Syria and it's back-and-forth on ISIS are...

Yeah, this post makes no sense. GPS is not for finding the holder of the device - it doesn't broadcast your location, it determines your location by observing satellite signals. A well-built GPS will tell you where you are, but won't tell anyone looking for you anything. The US could turn off...

Too expensive to disassemble, all the electronics are obsolete, all the physical plant components are worn-out junk. Spend money to get.... nothing but the steel. And you probably don't want to outsource disassembly of military vessels, even if they are obsolete.

Not directed at me, but I won't be criticizing anyone. Our field hockey and handball teams didn't qualify either. :-(

You are one evil bastard. This is nonsense from someone who doesn't understand another culture. You are an ignorant evil little troll, justifying "honor" bullsh*t. "Immoral west"? This is illegal here, and well understood by all that it should be condemned, and it is. The MURDERING part...