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by solomani
Thu Feb 25, 2016 9:22 pm
Forum: Weblog News Comments and Discussion
Topic: 25-Feb-16 World View -- Readers comment: Who would win a war between the US and China? China sends fighter jets to SCS
Replies: 19
Views: 17171

Re: 25-Feb-16 World View -- Readers comment: Who would win a war between the US and China? China sends fighter jets to

"a bunch of stuff about Asians sticking together and Sun Tzu Hi, this is pretty ignorant of the realities on the ground - my wife is Philipino and I have lived in Japan and HK and all those nations would side with the US in the blink of an eye against China. Yes even HK though it will never get the...
by solomani
Thu Feb 25, 2016 1:59 am
Forum: Weblog News Comments and Discussion
Topic: 25-Feb-16 World View -- Readers comment: Who would win a war between the US and China? China sends fighter jets to SCS
Replies: 19
Views: 17171

Re: 25-Feb-16 World View -- Readers comment: Who would win a war between the US and China? China sends fighter jets to

Good read! Don't agree with everything you say but enjoy them nonetheless. I still think a Cold War with China being isolated to death is the most likely outcome not a hot war at all. But I believe the battle lines will be the same as you describe.
by solomani
Sun Jan 10, 2016 2:09 am
Forum: Weblog News Comments and Discussion
Topic: 7-Jan-16 World View -- German 'Code of Conduct' for women shows pendulum swing on gender issues / Merry Christmas!
Replies: 30
Views: 26458

Re: 7-Jan-16 World View -- German 'Code of Conduct' for women shows pendulum swing on gender issues / Merry Christmas!

I like your overall analysis of events and I turn a blind eye to some of your more unusual assertions -like the cyborg future you seem keen on- but arguing that rape is how humanity has multiplied over the centuries and that women may even like it is beyond the pale. Human civilisation has spread, p...
by solomani
Tue Nov 17, 2015 8:07 am
Forum: Weblog News Comments and Discussion
Topic: 17-Nov-15 World View -- Anti-Muslim xenophobia surges in Europe and America
Replies: 8
Views: 9675

Re: 17-Nov-15 World View -- Anti-Muslim xenophobia surges in Europe and America

To be frank Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy. We have know that since at least the time of Pax Britanica. We have just forgotten.
by solomani
Fri Sep 11, 2015 7:33 am
Forum: Weblog News Comments and Discussion
Topic: 5-Jun-15 World View -- With Syria's army nearing collapse, Iran plans massive troop deployment
Replies: 5
Views: 8745

Re: 5-Jun-15 World View -- With Syria's army nearing collapse, Iran plans massive troop deployment

John, ahh OK, I am not familiar with that definition (don't live in the US!). Was more the military definition. I can grant an ironic use of the term for the IRGC :lol:
by solomani
Fri Sep 11, 2015 6:11 am
Forum: Weblog News Comments and Discussion
Topic: 5-Jun-15 World View -- With Syria's army nearing collapse, Iran plans massive troop deployment
Replies: 5
Views: 8745

Re: 5-Jun-15 World View -- With Syria's army nearing collapse, Iran plans massive troop deployment

Further reports indicate that hundreds of troops from Iran's élite Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) have also arrived, and are deployed northwest of Damascus near the border with Lebanon. Can you stop calling them elite? Elite is an earned designation not a title the unit gives itself and thi...
by solomani
Mon Jan 12, 2015 3:17 am
Forum: Weblog News Comments and Discussion
Topic: 12-Jan-15 World View -- Is Islam at war with the West?
Replies: 15
Views: 15443

Re: 12-Jan-15 World View -- Is Islam at war with the West?

You keep using the straw man argument of comparing NAZI "christians" with Moslem terrorists. I would argue that you can't be a NAZI and a Christian - plenty of Christians died at Hitler's hands. Even if you don't agree with that argument the fact of the matter is that someone calling themselves a Ch...
by solomani
Sat Aug 09, 2014 6:43 am
Forum: Weblog News Comments and Discussion
Topic: 6-Aug-14 World View -- Cyclic anti-Semitism surges in Europe
Replies: 10
Views: 11975

Re: 6-Aug-14 World View -- Cyclic anti-Semitism surges in Eu

Not sure who you are talking to but I am not a Jew. Israel is a democratic nation where Palestinian citizens are protected by the rule of law and treated equally. Constant attacks by Hamas, a military and political entity, eventually provoked a response. Hamas commited an act of war and Israel has e...
by solomani
Wed Aug 06, 2014 4:35 am
Forum: Weblog News Comments and Discussion
Topic: 6-Aug-14 World View -- Cyclic anti-Semitism surges in Europe
Replies: 10
Views: 11975

Re: 6-Aug-14 World View -- Cyclic anti-Semitism surges in Eu

I expect this is the root cause above everything else - moslem immigrants.