Appeasement in the front end of the cycle (of history repeating itself again)

[bugwar]

Dude I should have known you supported war no matter what....

For better or worse, it isn't what I support that matters, but what those with their fingers on the button choose that makes the difference.

So whether they decide to restrain themselves or not, those without their capabilities should tread lightly.

A tiger may be the best behaved pet you ever thought you had, but as Siegfried and Roy found out, they are still cats.

 

[Leoreth]

There is really no excuse for ignorance with the internet at your fingertips.

Start here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state_terrorism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_state_terrorism

You can't belive everything you read on the internet.

Best. Exchange. Ever. I should print this and frame it.

 

[peter grimes]

Correct 100% correct......Ayotollah needs to declare war...saying Ahmadinejad will declare war is like saying Speaker of the House will declare war instead of Oboma...

Except, of course, that's exactly how it works in the USA

From wiki:
"For the United States, Article One, Section Eight of the Constitution says "Congress shall have power to ... declare War"."

Obviously this is not quite what you meant, but I felt compelled to remove the ambiguity. Perhaps you meant to say that it would be like the Secretary of Defense declaring war??

 

[GhostWriter16]

"Congress" isn't just the Speaker of the House (Thank god...)

That has sadly been ignored since WWII though (Thanks a lot Truman *Facepalm*) (And Lincoln to a lesser extent.)

 

[Leonel]

Best. Exchange. Ever. I should print this and frame it.

I think someone got spanked.

 

[WindFish]

On one level, I agree. It was mostly a joke. The Tories are jackasses, but they're not Fascists.

Ofc they aren't fascists, they are too much like the GOP for that.

On another level, though, did you check out the AHRC's requirements for disbursing funds to universities over the last two years? In some cases, they made money contingent on the existence of courses and programs based on the Big Society. Basically, "indoctrinate your students with our ideology and do 'research' to provide academic plausibility for it, or else we'll slash your budget".

I didn't know that.

And the very vagueness of the whole "Big Society" shtick lends itself very well to accusations of anti-individualism.

How do you mean?