Karl

I have a hatred for religion, but it is not an irrational hatred. I am opposite to you in that I was never concerned about religions and saw them as harmless Mystics. Now I don't generalise. So, my concern is not on those who are religious per se, I cannot say someone is good or bad, it is their behaviour that I must judge. I judge their religious philosophy as evil, but not the people who practice it as evil. A guy going to church of a Sunday isn't going to get a peace of my wrath for his ridiculous mystic beliefs. It's only when he decides that his philosophy -altruism/sacrifice-must be applied to the rest of us as this is Gods moral values and I have to comply or get locked up.

I was thinking Egypt, Syria, Libya, Iraq, Saudi, Iran. Turkey have elected a hard liner that is pulling the country back to Islam.

Our country has been broke for a long while, ever since the war. Your country is 23 trillion in debt. In 1971 the US defaulted on its debt. The current unfunded liabilities run close to 200 trillion. If you think your economy is stable you are very deluded. It looks as if you are overtly proud despite the obvious collapse of your own economy, manufacturing, wages and morals. We have a least decided to part company with the EU political project, but we aren't in a good place by any means.

I live in Europe, so I do care. You aren't safe because America is morally bankrupt. The people running your country-and many of the people who don't inhabit those circles-have become ever more inward looking whilst attempting to build empire. This is exactly what happened in Rome. No one thought Rome would disintegrate and bring with it the dark ages, but that's what happened. Exactly as now, Rome over extended its empire making, it over taxed, over regulated, price fixed, created a kind of welfare through distribution of free wheat and debauched its currency. You should read some history so the significance of those events are contextualised. The collapse was concreted once the farmers/workers/businessmen saw no reason to continue trading. They flocked to Rome to get the free wheat and to escape the draconian taxes and price fixing. It was the people who had had enough of the Empire and they were so fed up that they literally begged the barbarians to take over. If you understand what the whole Trump/Brexit thing is about, it is the people screaming for change. That change may come in many forms, it might be communism, it might be the rise of capitalism, but, if you have lived in Europe you would have witnessed the voluntary conversion of Western Whites and second/third generation immigrants to Islam. We currently have a Muslim Mayor who is banning advertising featuring women from the decks of London buses.

It's likely Iran will do so anyway, if not directly, then through a proxy. Americans have already died as a result of terrorism and more will die as a result of poor foreign/domestic policy. As I said, the cat is out of the bag. It isn't WMD that the West needs to be scared of, but their own democracies. In every middle eastern country that gained the democratic vote, the people voted in a hard line Islamist. Those same Islamists are streaming into the West and breeding, but they are gaining confidence by seeing the impotency of the US and Europe's desperate Christian tradition of self martyrdom and tolerance. How easy it is just to use the democratic system to vote Islam into power unopposed and even protected. Once Europe is lost to Islam then Russia and the USA will be threatened. Islamists believe in 40 virgins and the will of Allah. Instead of controlling sand and a rag tag army they will have serious financial and military clout.

I agree. I did not say 'now'. However I suspect that at some point the USA will probably end up in conflict anyway. If Iran is supported by elements of SA and Russia, then they will develop nuclear weapons and this will make the Middle East that much more difficult to deal with. Once they know America is too afraid to attack a nuclear armed Iran it will make the entire area far more bold. The type/frequency/severity of terrorist attacks will increase and the confidence to install Islam in the West will multiply out of all proportion. We are now counting down to a definite doomsday event that is far more incendiary than the Cold War. Israel will be squeezed and they have no option but to retaliate which will necessitate the US/Europe joining in and Russia/China will look to reposition themselves in the new paradigm.

The letter was written by the Clinton supporter and is yet unsubstantiated. It's a shot over the bows to frighten charities into hiring a lawyer. As it is, the Donald's charity, appears to have bypassed the sticky fingers of the taxman and given the proceeds of the charity directly to the veterans-I'm sure there is a very well known story of the kind of person that steals from the taxman to give to the needy. Robin Hood prince of thieves. I think we know who the sheriff of Nottingham is.

Except they have wasted their resources, or more accurately your tax money. The result of their pathetic interventionism has been to increase terrorism and to reduce freedom for Americans. Had they responded correctly to Iranian threats and the promotion of terrorism, then they would have told the Iranians to dismantle their regime, its terrorist support and cease its threats. Iran should have been made aware in no uncertain terms that failure to comply would result in military action. At this point the US should have acted. No more of this 'just war', surgical strikes and regime overthrow, it should have used deadly force immediately against the country. That is not to worry about civilian casualties, but to bomb them to a point where the people shout enough and no longer wish to support Islamic laws and religious mysticism. Had the US pounded Iran, then the surrounding countries would have sat up and taken notice. They would realise that America meant business, that it wasn't looking to negotiate regime change or to tolerate threats of any kind. The people of those other countries would begin to be concerned that their own governments might well bring the same wrath to their own doors and demand change. It's too late now, the cats out of the bag. The middle easterners see Americans only as corrupt invaders that have no stomach for principled fighting. It's no wonder the refugees appear at borders demanding to be taken in by Europe and that newscasts are filled with stories of 'civilian caualties' as a way to lobby the US or other nations to take up the cause of more radical Islamic terrorists.

I thought you had flounced out already, back so soon ? Missed ya jive buddy ;-)

I've removed you name and made it clear you didn't actually say it. Anything for you jive buddy. ;-)

(of a nation or its affairs) acting or done independently and without outside interference. "a sovereign, democratic republic" synonyms: independent, self-governing, autonomous, self-determining, self-legislating; More non-aligned, free "the Allies turned the western part of Germany into a sovereign state" The definition here applies to a nation, but what applies to nations applies to progressively smaller nations and the smallest unit is a man. Able to act independently, which does not necessarily mean to survive independently.

It isn't an invention.

Can you pack it in for a moment I'm having a coughing fit and your interjections are worsening them significantly.

It's the land of getting 'free stuff' these days.

Fixed that for you. Bubbles bubbles bubbles :-) Edited to make certain readers know that Ralis did not say it.

At least you are trying to understand which is a definite step forward. However, please understand that I'm not a right winger, nor a libertarian, Neo-con, Neo-liberal or any of that. I'm purely objectivist. Capitalism is the trading principle. It isn't a policy, or a theory, it's what we do if given the freedom to do it. That doesn't exclude laws against bad actors. So, avoiding tyranny is something deeper, it requires philosophical change and the ending of moral cowardice. Good people, are so because the moral good is the best individual choice for those who pursue happiness. What is there to balance ?

ive micro aggressed against him......sinner.....sinner :-)

You just did that for yourself.

Oh the Governments 'licensing' demands ! Cor blimey. Got to fill in all those little bits of paper for the master.

He didn't say 'disconnected'.

You are equivocating on the word 'free'. However, Brian didn't even say 'free' he said sovereign. We aren't free of gravity either, nor the need to eat, being a child is equivalent. We can change somethings and not others. Sovereign means being self contained and not being aggressed against by other men. Most children are loved and are not aggressed against, but are taught what is dangerous to them, without that love, support and tuition they would be vulnerable. This does not mean they aren't sovereign, nor free. If they wished they can leave any time they like. They choose not to.

Snorrrr........ Oh how terrible, luckily the Clinton Foundation is like a saintly organisation untouched by mortal sin.

https://youtu.be/Ihr3OshtlJA A speech by Ellsworth Toohey from the book 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand.

As does every other MSM channel. As long as you also disregard all of the others equally then you will be consistent.

Indeed it was and so was fascist Germany. This is why I always stress laissez faire capitalism, which, for the hard of thinking means people free to trade value for value without the boot boys, thugs and enforcers stealing those values. I know I'm preaching to the converted here Joe, but it needs saying. We don't have capitalism in the sense of Laissez Faire, there are no 'free markets' regardless of what the left and right believe. Every market is heavily crony through Government intervention to the extent that the Fed is pretty much the states tool for a central planned economy no differently to that of the Soviet Union.