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Clearly you have a very innocent and overly simplistic view of the region.
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Somebody needs to explain to me why there are so many dictators in the Middle East
Because representational governments are a realtively new development and authoritarian societies (those with strong authoritarians religions underpinning them) can be extrmely difficult to dislodge?
I mean, seriously...somebody really had to tell you that?
I think you probably already knew that.
When Europe was shuffling off it's monarchies, it too had to surpress its authoritarian religiously based society...it had to fight off the CHURCH OF ROME and then it had to fight off the Monarchs (who claimed their authority via the CHURCH) too.
Only instead of having to get rid of authoritarian Islam, we had to fight off authoritarian Christianity.
Seriously...you guy don't already know this?
You don't know the history of the Reformation and the huge number of times Christians (like the Albegensians and the Hussites) tried and failed to reform their society by changing the relationship between the Chirch of Rome and their own Monarchs?
You guys really need to get a handle on history.
You cannot understand the world you live in today if you don't have a clue how we got here, today.
I don't care how much money you make, how clever you are about thing technical, understanding the world you live in requires that you have at least a passing understanding of the world as it was.
I cannot understand being an American who hates the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as some clearly reveal in this thread. Yes, the Muslims have every much right to God-given natural rights as Americans. Do deny that is to hate God.
I cannot understand being an American who hates the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as some clearly reveal in this thread. Yes, the Muslims have every much right to God-given natural rights as Americans. Do deny that is to hate God.
I cannot understand being an American who hates the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as some clearly reveal in this thread. Yes, the Muslims have every much right to God-given natural rights as Americans. Do deny that is to hate God.
Yes that's true, look at what the Nazi chose as a government. Should we have stopped them or should we have let them run their own country? Look at what the Japanese did the Chinese. Look at what the Arabias did to Israel when they first became a nation.
idb, the Israelis knocked the crap out of the Arabs four times running, even when the Arabs sneak attacked. The fact is that armies of Arabs of any nation are laughing stock, period. They cry now because they got the stuffing beat out of them before. Get over it!
I note also in your reply above that bigreb continues to reveal his hatred of the principles of the Declaration and the Constitution also. The reasons the Germans ran wild was that the Allies French let them violate the Versailles Peace Treaty in 1934 with a increase of three times the allowed size of its army and the remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936. There was no need to overthrow democratic elections in Germany, only the need to resist Hitler internationally.
I will note that bigreb, in all of his posturing on the Board, has a deep fondness for policies of Hitler, particularly on issues of race.
Mud, the Egyptians have the same god-given rights as Americans. Go read the Declaration. You truly have no business telling others how to vote when you are as morally corrupt as you have demonstrated in this thread.
Egyptians have the same god-given rights as Americans. Go read the Declaration - Jake Starkey
Mud, the Egyptians have the same god-given rights as Americans. Go read the Declaration. You truly have no business telling others how to vote when you are as morally corrupt as you have demonstrated in this thread.
You numbskull.
Now you want to project American laws, rights, and privileges unto Egyptians.
Let me get this right.Egyptians have the same god-given rights as Americans. Go read the Declaration - Jake Starkey
What are you, some kind of fucken colonialist? You wanna tell Egypt what to do now?
Sounds kind of amoral to me. Imposing your will upon the people of other countries.
If I didn't know better I would think you're serious.
Mud, the Egyptians have the same god-given rights as Americans. Go read the Declaration. You truly have no business telling others how to vote when you are as morally corrupt as you have demonstrated in this thread.
What are you, some kind of fucken colonialist? You wanna tell Egypt what to do now?
I cannot understand being an American who hates the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as some clearly reveal in this thread. Yes, the Muslims have every much right to God-given natural rights as Americans. Do deny that is to hate God.
Yes that's true, look at what the Nazi chose as a government. Should we have stopped them or should we have let them run their own country? Look at what the Japanese did the Chinese. Look at what the Arabias did to Israel when they first became a nation.
Nobody stopped them running their own countries until they invaded someone else's.
Except for Israel of course, who have been allowed to annex neighbouring territory with impunity.
Mud, the Egyptians have the same god-given rights as Americans. Go read the Declaration. You truly have no business telling others how to vote when you are as morally corrupt as you have demonstrated in this thread.
What are you, some kind of fucken colonialist? You wanna tell Egypt what to do now?
I don't want to tell Egyptians what to do, but you do, and you are caught lying through your teeth again as you project your idiocy on me.
Natural God-given rights are for all humans, not just Americans.
Where did you learn such nonsense?
Thank you Mudwhistle for telling us that God has nothing to do with our natural rights. That's fine for you to have an opinion. However, your opinion would be spurned by Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Adams, and so forth. Whatever you espouse, they are not American virtues. Move to Egypt then if you don't like it here.
Yes that's true, look at what the Nazi chose as a government. Should we have stopped them or should we have let them run their own country? Look at what the Japanese did the Chinese. Look at what the Arabias did to Israel when they first became a nation.
Nobody stopped them running their own countries until they invaded someone else's.
Except for Israel of course, who have been allowed to annex neighbouring territory with impunity.
al Qaeda flew planes into our cities. A Saudi was captured yesterday attempting to assassinate one of our former Presidents. Muslims blew up the Stark, bombed our embassies, took our diplomats hostage, gang-raped a female journalist during the celebrations in Egypt, Somali pirates murdered 4 missionaries this week. Iraqi Muslims are murdering Christians by the hundreds.
And now the Muslim Brotherhood threatens to end the Camp David Peace Accord and wage war on one of our few allies in the region.
You make me sick. I'm tired of taking lumps and giving nothing back in return except apologies.
You go ahead and side with them. Maybe if you do they might spare your life.
Then again, maybe they won't.