Pass The Ammo

…..um….. still nuke em

I agree with you totally here, because understanding and accepting are two totally different things. Killing Rahman is totally wrong, but i still want to know why exactly it’s happening so that i can try to change it.

You just swung the truth hammer. Beautiful.

Well I must agrue that there is one option that can solve the problem with the left, GENOCIDE

The birth of democracy? Don’t you mean the birth of theocracy? The theocracy that wants to execute a man because he’s a Christian?

I don’t understand what you’re trying to say in this post. Are you mad at the Afghanistani government for practicing shari’ah or are you mad at “most liberals” for complaining that the Afghanistani government is practicing shari’ah? Do you want to bomb Muslims in their “wasteland” or do you want to “liberate” them? Do you want to give them democracy, or do you want to complain that the democracy we gave them allowed them to institute Islamic law that makes Christianity a capital offense?

Who are you mad at?

I didn’t realize you were talking about Iraq, ’cause you posted a story about something that’s going on in Afghanistan.

As far as a “hopefully birthing” democracy in Iraq goes, I wouldn’t hold your breath. There’s a difference between “democracy” and a Democracy. The goal was turning Iraq into a Western-style liberal democracy friendly to America that would set an example for the other theocratic and authoritarian regimes in the region to follow has not happened.

Small-D “democracy” itself is not a victory, because democracy is not inherently good (Hitler was elected, after all). Afghanistan has elected an Islamic theocracy (although not to Taliban levels, thankfully), Iraq has elected a mullah-dominated, Iran-aligned Shi’ite government bordering on Islamic theocracy. Hell, the Palestinians just held the freest elections any Arab country as ever had, and they elected Hamas.

The thing that you guys who say this stuff don’t understand is that not everyone in the world views democracy as a great thing, or a system they want to live by. That’s why you can’t give democracy to people—if they want it, they have to fight for it themselves, like we did.

Would we be as proud of our history, our revolution, and our democracy if the French had just invaded and installed it for us?

ooohhhh burrnnn … it stings right down to the core of my being. Im on root beer #8… XedgeX biieettcchh

It’s ok. xStr8 edgex is a way of life for but only the strong in mind and body… girlie men such as yerself can’t hang…. ooooooo burrnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

JJ, I don’t know why you keep impying that I’m a gay cowboy. What would make you think that? Hahaha

Chad, yeah, I’m really 33, unfortunately, an old fart compared to you pesky little whippersnappers!

As far as Abdul goes, how would you know if the liberals were “crying” over his situation? I seriously doubt you guys read very many lefty blogs. Well that’s how I found out about his plight, because they were all talking about it. Two links I have handy, Mother Jones posted about it, and the Liberal Avenger said:

“What Bush should do regarding the plight of Abdul Rahman is send in a Special Forces team to rescue the poor bastard and spirit him out of the country to safety.”

As far as talking about atrocities that happen in other countries, you don’t really post about them either. Americans, whether on the right or the left, generally write about America, not other countries. I mean, it’s not like you’ve posted dozens of entries on the genocide in Sudan.

I think you guys just want every complaint about an American fault or action to be immediately followed by a worse complaint about someone else, but nobody does that, why would they? That’s an unrealistic expectation. Personally, I don’t post about the screwed up stuff someone in, for example, Algeria does because I’m not Algerian—their actions don’t reflect on me, and my taxes don’t fund their government, you know? And pointing out how screwed up the French government is doesn’t justify our own faults. I don’t really CARE how bad the French government is because that’s their problem. America is mine.

I mean, I do understand why you guys might think that someone like me, who complains about the American government frequently, “hates America.” But I don’t, I LOVE America, and I want it to be the best it can be, so when I think we’re doing something wrong, I want us to stop doing it, understand? These two quotes summarize my feelings on the matter:

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official … It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”
—Theodore Roosevelt

“To criticize one’s country is to do it a service and pay it a compliment. It is a service because it may spur the country to do better than it is doing; it is a compliment because it evidences a belief that a country can do better than it is doing. Criticism is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism.”
—Senator J. William Fulbright

So you have to understand, it’s my love for America that drives me to criticize it, not hate.

As far as Straight Edge goes, it doesn’t bother me that you guys make fun of it, but I think it’s kinda funny, because I’d say that not doing drugs and not drinking is pretty conservative And why is it that drugs are considered bad but alcohol is fully embraced? I never understood that very much, seeing how destructive alcohol is (to individuals and to families).

Dang, thread is DEF.

Hey Chad, are you going to the gun show this weekend?

I thought it was in Spokane… if its in I-dee-ho i’ll give ya a call if I can make it.

No, no, no Chad… you got this all wrong. In all relationships there is a dominant partner and a submissive partner (I learned that in my entirely un-liberal “Intercultural Communications” class I took when I was a Freshman). You are the submissive one so I will allow you to hold onto the beltloop of my extra-tight wranglers with your pinkie finger… no hand holding. You must also never make eye contact with me and you will always walk behind me. You will speak only when you are asked a question. Biiieettttccchchhh hahahaa

Here in restrictive NYC, my “firepower” consists of a CRK folder and a Stinger (hey, no jokes about the phallic-looking Stinger, it’s effective). But I think within two years I’ll be moving to Texas, so I can finally have loud toys that blow things up again

My firepower consists of a piece of gum, a 2X4, and a paper clip, with which i can create a 500 megaton nuclear device.:cool:

My firepower consists of a Mossberg 500 20 gauge, a remington magnum somethin or other 12 gauge, and a dinky little .22