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Huh? They are expanding into Tibet as a means of conquering a "renegade" province. The Han Chinese view China as always having been theirs despite ideas of independence on the part of the misguided and backwards theocratic Tibetans. Not entirely dissimilar from their views of the Republic of China (Taiwan)

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It's where JayB gets his posts from.

In what way does the $7-9 billion an month we're blowing on Iraq constitute crisis spending? A crisis of our own making, perhaps. Don't you sleep safer at night knowing Saddam Hussein isn't pointing the WMD he didn't have at you and isn't training the terrorists who weren't there?

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JayB- Are you going to codify this in some sort of "War on Terror Manifesto"? It'd be the perfect thing for aspiring rightists to prominently put on their coffee table for centuries! You could inspire hundreds of regimes!

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You certainly spend enough time on this shithole forum. Is it a self esteem issue? Do you need a hug? Shouldn't you be out registering gays, lesbians, crack mothers and welfare scammers to vote?

And I was just waiting for you to once again defend "the war on terror" Comeon JayB - admit that in the hands of W it's opportunistic bullshit - witness the complete absence of coverage of the homegrown british terror wackjobs vs. the incompetent arab liquid bombers. The coddling of cuban terrorists and others (like Gerry Brown - who is on the Terror watch list, but gets to meet with W at the white house). The focus on Islamic threats when Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and Christians operate terror cells. It's farce JayB - the emperor has no clothes! Comeon JayB - say it! Say it! There's nothing wrong with a war on terror in theory! It's just nobody has come up with a working war on terror yet!

Why Luis Posada Carriles of course - implicated by our own government in the bombing of Cubana Flight 455 which killed 73 people, including the entire Cuban fencing team (there were a few low level party functionaries aboard - such as the director of the shrimp fleet). The Bush administration has steadfastly refused to classify him as a terrorist - most recently last Wednesday. We refuse to extradite him because he may be tortured Now back to your bloviating defense of a moral relativist regime.

I'll bite my tongue and say "what do you expect of a get out the vote minion?"

Hey - it's the "I'm losing both the argument in one thread so I'll restate it somewhere else" tactic. Neat. The absolutist statements that you were spewing out before you ran away to another thread have way more in common with the "It's in the bible therefore I believe it" perspective that you are referring to than anything that I've articulated. Only people that live in some kind of a cloistered dreamworld or refuse to acknowledge the kind of moral complexity that one normally encounters in the real world, beyond the age of twelve, could possibly hang onto the kind of perspective that you bring to pretty much any political realities that get discussed here from time to time. Don't you have Cuban "not terrorists" to coddle?

So are farts, and I still find them hilarious. BTW, I'm on a Dell. Best cleavage in the GOP. Move On, Bill Maher! Mom votes Republican? Or maybe its her percolator... keep stacking the ballot box there William Tweed, maybe you'll get a hit

Oooh, one post too late for the one two punch. I hate when that happens, don't you? Now you run along and play with your emoticons, Ratskywatsky. Now tavawerwafsafadfjh is learning how to spray properly. Keep it Coulter!

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JayB's post was recycled. He's used the same latte liberal schtick for years. Goes to show there's nothing new under the sun. Now back to your Boss Tweed machine.

Nicely countered with the same disdainful faux-optimism I was criticizing! We could go about this endgame forever with people only evaluating us on the form and wit of our retorts and not the content of our speach .... and that'd be just like politics Somehow I think the Indians and Chinese are laughing harder though.

If it makes you feel better JayB, if it makes you feel better. All sides of the American electorate - from right of Attila the hun (Ayn Rand followers) to those left of Lenin (chomskyists) seem to prefer spectacle to substantive debate now. I could go on and tritely characterize your Hayek quoting cigar smoking conservatism, but it's just another actor in the tragedy, a rather sad and boring opera. You can argue whatever causations you want; it matters not to me - but it illustrates well why we don't give a fuck.

Try learning how to dance. Want respect? Show some. We've gotten the bellicose conservative and the witty condscending conservative to post - now I need a self described independant chiming in with their disgust for tic-tac-toe. Ah, this thread, so perfect, so perfect. We've turned death into sideshow laughter and amusement.

Oh nonsense JayB - I'm far to bohemian to hit on disaffected americans. I prefer being rejected by the local latinas who've seen 50 of me. As for the sugarcoated bit - look at our politics. We want people to tell us "the positive" and have a "positive agenda" and value that ahead of the negative. Look at the last election - W's brand of incompetence was preferrably to the absence of an agenda Now back to your standard effete liberal critique, oh coddler of cuban terrorists

So typically American. Tell us the hard truth - but make sure it's sugarcoated and doesn't hurt to much

he did, it's difficult to hear one more above the rest of america.

I'd argue showcasing the Chinese abuses of Tibet - by visiting and capturing Han chinese hegemony at it's finest - then showing it to friends and neighbors - would do more than a boycott. In reality we're fucked. Cheap consumer crap is more important.

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what are Islamic fundamentalists exactly? why are they a greater threat than some other mechanism (please showcase casualties and costs they've incurred) like, perhaps, homegrown rightwing nutjobs (see recent British case) why aren't cubans who blow up airplanes terrorists?