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but American politicians need an existential threat guillaumeb Feb 2015 #1
+ a gazillion chervilant Feb 2015 #5
Amen to that, but guillaumeb Feb 2015 #6
Yep, and when Mikhail Gorbachev picked up his Cold War marbles hifiguy Feb 2015 #17
To the MIC, terrorism ain't a threat. It's an opportunity. Iggo Feb 2015 #2
It's what butters their bread BrotherIvan Feb 2015 #9
Without a threat, real or imagined, does not matter, there is no fear, - with no fear there is no trillion dollars a year spent. Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #3
Great OP! Octafish Feb 2015 #4
Your welcome Dwight42 Feb 2015 #7
No but it does pose a threat to many good people in the Middle East. Should we not care? pampango Feb 2015 #8
Care all you want but our "help" is nothing of the sort to them or us. TheKentuckian Feb 2015 #11
"Help" does not have to mean using the military. Since when did liberals think that is the only way pampango Feb 2015 #12
What else does it ever mean in this kind of context, except maybe clandestine meddling? TheKentuckian Feb 2015 #14
I just don't want liberals to adopt attitude "you folks are good but you live in a cesspool pampango Feb 2015 #18
I don't recall saying anything about a cesspool and still don't know what "help" even is to you. TheKentuckian Feb 2015 #20
Never mind that! BE AFRAID! Our shopping malls are at threat level orange! GoneFishin Feb 2015 #10
Yes.... and those twin towers falling was made up. Rhinodawg Feb 2015 #13
PNAC wanted a new Pearl Harbor, and they got just what they wanted. What a coinkydink. nt Electric Monk Feb 2015 #27
It's an existential threat to those being brutalized and killed. Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2015 #15
Same can be said about any violent act, we need a much bigger picture definition than that. TheKentuckian Feb 2015 #21
You dispatch straw men with such ease, we should put you in charge of dealing with ISIS. Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2015 #24
Please do. It is beyond critical my plan be instituted like yesterday. TheKentuckian Feb 2015 #25
Yes. Well. It's a local position. We'll need you on the ground there. Should be safe. Right? Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2015 #28
A local position? I do have some logistics experience but I see no reason to go there to TheKentuckian Feb 2015 #29
Kick and Rec. hifiguy Feb 2015 #16
Not an existential threat, but some pretty bad stuff could happen. DanTex Feb 2015 #19
So if Republicans refuse to fund DHS madville Feb 2015 #22
Senator Obama said it best in 2006... wyldwolf Feb 2015 #23
Not from the ME, but the domestic nut jobs who want to support those idiots do. napi21 Feb 2015 #26
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