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Kurt wrote:In spite of ROB's uber pissy mood for the last year or so, he is right with this
Q wrote:Every time Iran sends its little fast boats out to harass US ships of the line, everyone laughs. You see it coming from the Pentagon, all the way down to the ankle biter blog writers. It's a big joke to them.
Well, it's clear the Iranians paid attention. We'll see who is laughing soon I'm guessing.
Hitoru wrote:Like Obummer would say " Dividing Syria has been coupled with UN-sponsored ethnic cleansing, as evident in the evacuation of the Damascus suburb of Darayya, not of opposition fighters only, but of its native civilian population" .
I think bottom line is do we really want to fight Iran ? Perhaps a generational animosity shift will occur . I'm trying to remember the cadence, if I die on a Russian shore bury me with a Russian whore , if I die on Iranian beach ? Bury me...
ROB wrote:Q wrote:Every time Iran sends its little fast boats out to harass US ships of the line, everyone laughs. You see it coming from the Pentagon, all the way down to the ankle biter blog writers. It's a big joke to them.
Well, it's clear the Iranians paid attention. We'll see who is laughing soon I'm guessing.
The concept of exceptionalism has been present in the fall of every powerful civilization. It is a cancer on any successful society.
Q wrote:It's my opinion that it hasn't because Iranians are very nationalistic. They might not dig the mullahs, but they sure as fuck aren't going to let a bunch of foreigners come in and change things. At least overtly.
ReptilianKittenEater wrote:Q wrote:It's my opinion that it hasn't because Iranians are very nationalistic. They might not dig the mullahs, but they sure as fuck aren't going to let a bunch of foreigners come in and change things. At least overtly.
Nailed it.
ROB wrote:Q wrote:Every time Iran sends its little fast boats out to harass US ships of the line, everyone laughs. You see it coming from the Pentagon, all the way down to the ankle biter blog writers. It's a big joke to them.
Well, it's clear the Iranians paid attention. We'll see who is laughing soon I'm guessing.
The concept of exceptionalism has been present in the fall of every powerful civilization. It is a cancer on any successful society.
nowonmai wrote:Sounds like PC bullshit to me. Perhaps you don't get a powerful civilization without exceptionalism. Let's face it, civilisations don't expand their influence by minding their Ps and Qs. So the fact that it is there at the end may not be a relevant factor.
Maybe the real problem is declining exceptionalism. ie. decadence.
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