Random Politics & Religion #00

Benghazi!

Obama asked Congress to authorize $500 million to train and arm “moderate” Syrian rebels. The training would take place in Saudi Arabia.

It is unclear whether more American weapons and training can shift the battlefield balance toward the U.S.-backed rebels, who are badly outgunned by Islamic State, other militant groups and Assad's forces.

A vote on the money would put lawmakers on record supporting the military action, although White House officials stressed Obama already had the authority he needed for the new moves.

And so it begins.

Obama orders U.S. airstrikes in Syria against Islamic State

Could have made Destiny for that price ! Video game or kill terrorists both useful !

You forget.

When you don't have a rebuttal, you use various excuses and approaches, as demonstrated by Pleebo and Jet.

1) The Fallacy Excuse
2) The passive-aggressive approach
3) The "attempt to ridicule" approach
4) The Definition excuse
5) The Subject-Change method

All of which have been used on this very thread too....

(incoming passive-aggressive counter from either Pleebo and/or Jet)

The video game would have been far more constructive.

Instead we have Obama blatantly give Islamic militants more weapons. If it isn't bad enough IS has seized alla small amount of the U.S. equipment left in Iraq plus all the weapons the U.S. unofficially gave them before IS made headlines (through Saudi Arabia of course, awesome American Ally btw), now the U.S. is just going to openly support the same people it's trying to demoralize and destroy. Kind of like Democratic voters.

I'd be very interested to see what the votes turn out to be. I would speculate they (Democratic party) will use it as an issue in November not knowing how dumb they would look for doing so.

Just glossing over the fact that many GOP lawmakers quickly came out and said Obama's actions aren't going far enough, huh? Also fixed a bit for accuracy.

You forget.

When you don't have a rebuttal, you use various excuses and approaches, as demonstrated by Pleebo and Jet.

1) The Fallacy Excuse
2) The passive-aggressive approach
3) The "attempt to ridicule" approach
4) The Definition excuse
5) The Subject-Change method

All of which have been used on this very thread too....

(incoming passive-aggressive counter from either Pleebo and/or Jet)

A week from now according to this.

I can't wait to hear all the new developments and hard-hitting questions. Why hasn't a space-time distortion been created so we can go back to the moments before the attack and warn everyone? Why didn't Obama mobilize the Justice League to swoop in and save everybody before the situation got out of hand? How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real? Only once we get some real answers can we begin to heal as a nation.

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You can thank the real neoconservative movement started back in the early 1950s for this never ending cycle.

Also forgot to mention...

Wikipedia = bad source of information
Urban Dictionary = ultimate source of information

It shows you just where their mind is at.

The U.S. and its allies are trying to hammer out a coalition to push back the Islamic State group in Iraq. But any serious attempt to destroy the militants or even seriously degrade their capabilities means targeting their infrastructure in Syria.

That, however, is far more complicated. If it launches airstrikes against the group in Syria, the U.S. runs the risk of unintentionally strengthening the hand of President Bashar Assad, whose removal the West has actively sought the past three years. Uprooting the Islamic State group, which has seized roughly a third of Syria and Iraq, may potentially open the way for the Syrian army to fill the vacuum.

The alternative would be to finally get serious about arming the mainstream Western-backed rebels fighting to topple Assad. But there is a reason the administration of President Barack Obama has been deeply reluctant to throw its weight behind them.

The relatively moderate rebel factions fighting in Syria are in tatters. There are no secular groups, and the strongest factions are Islamic groups, many of which work with al-Qaida's official branch in Syria, the Nusra Front.

The Nusra Front, which has somewhat dropped from international headlines because of the Islamic State group's exceeding brutality, is on the U.S. list of terrorist groups and is still very active.

It and other rebels recently seized the Quneitra border crossing between Syria and the Israeli-held Golan Heights, taking 45 United Nations peacekeepers hostage. It was also among a group of militants that recently overran a Lebanese border town and is holding several Lebanese soldiers and policemen captive.

Rape Culture in the Alaskan Wilderness

This is a pretty long read. But it's a good one, if not upsetting.

Rape Culture in the Alaskan Wilderness

This is a pretty long read. But it's a good one, if not upsetting.