Flag Pole Pear
Bordering Purgatory
- Joined
- Jan 6, 2001
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STING2 said:Flag Pole Pear,
universal owns interscope? It sure does.
huh, funny that. i always thought the two were seperate.
universal must be HUUGE.
STING2 said:Flag Pole Pear,
universal owns interscope? It sure does.
STING2 said:HIPHOP,
"To me you sound like an inexperienced colony official, who hasn?t learned how to deal with power yet"
"criminal president"
Come on now, your a lot smarter, respectful, and objective than these statements suggest.
Flag Pole Pear said:universal must be HUUGE.
STING2 said:HIPHOP,
Wrong! I never once said the word stupid! The suffer from a lack of opportunity and information because of dictatorships and poverty. It is not their fault as individuals.
As for the democracy's and people in them I DISPUTE SOME OF THEIR CONCLUSIONS, not their intelligence!
Please calm down, before you accuse me again of saying or implying something that I clearly did not.
melon said:
Yes, and Universal is owned by Vivendi, a large French media conglomerate.
Things just get bigger and bigger!
Melon
whenhiphopdrovethebigcars said:
I?m just reacting on your tone which displays your concept, officer
whenhiphopdrovethebigcars said:
You could actually quarrel if Vivendi or Universal is bigger. And all that mergers happened because of Clinton!
Dreadsox said:
And last night when you implied I was a racist that was a reaction to what?
You have shown quite a bit of contempt yourself. Putting words in peoples mouths and twisting what they say.
Peace
STING2 said:You can believe that your views and theirs about American Foreign Policy are correct. I respect that. But I have a different point view and so do many other people.
anitram said:
How about all those in Western Europe, or, say, even closer, in Canada? Are they suffering under a dictatorship?
STING2 said:In addition, Iraq with the exception of Saudi Arabia, has the world largest oil reserves on the planet. This level of natural resource wealth is not something Germany or Japan had to draw on themselves. Ever "economic potential" study that has been done on Iraq since the 1970s has found that Iraq should be the wealthiest country in the region do to its natural resources which include the energy that can be derived from its rivers as well as its oil.
Another factor though is the obvious effort that the USA can put into nation building that midigate the problems that Iraq faces in being a third world country. ... Economic development and politcal development of Iraq will happen as long as the necessary resources are invested to achieve those goals. The difficulties of building a new Iraq are not as bad as the difficulties and possibilities of a Saddam controlled Iraq armed in the future with nuclear weapons.
There are a lot of things Saddam is planning to do in the future, and he already has weapons that Germany and Japan never had. He is also in close proximity to most of the worlds energy supplies and does not need multi-continental aggression capability to threaten the world.
Here at Free Your Mind, we try to remain objective and respectful of other peoples points of view. Characterizing me or my arguements as fallacy-ridden or absurd does not make it so and does nothing to prove or advance your own view points. Just like making and unbased claim that I am "ignorant of history", it is unnecessary in not in the spirit of this forum.
Dreadsox said:
Canada...they are not supporting us? Interesting.
Western Europe? All of Western Europe? Or France and Germany?
Nah...no dictatorship there....Just a lot of greed. But that couldn't cloud their judgement now could it?
Food for oil benefits...hmmmmmmm
STING2 said:Blacksword,
The USA engaged in a policy of containment and occasionally rollback of Soviet supported states for the sake of long term global security. I'm not going to justify every single tatical situation, but certainly the strategic goal was justified and saved much of the world from Global domination by the Soviets and or World War III.
The USA has certainly helped several dictators in the past that killed many of their own people, but there were more important priorities that demanded this course of action. Your not going tell me that the USA should not have sent Billions of tons of supplies to Stalins Soviet Union are you?
"Do you seriously think much of the world hates the US and considers it an imperialist nation out of envy and self-delusion?"
Yes I do. Much of this world you speak of live in countries that are dictatorships or in poverty without access to education. Certainly many in democratic countries may have this view, but from what I have studied and learned over the years, I strongly dispute such claims.
melon said:Only slightly bemusing...
If the U.S. installed the dictator, the U.S. is bad.
If the U.S. removes the dictator, the U.S. is bad.
Just making an observation...
Melon
melon said:Only slightly bemusing...
If the U.S. installed the dictator, the U.S. is bad.
If the U.S. removes the dictator, the U.S. is bad.
Just making an observation...
Melon
whenhiphopdrovethebigcars said:
If the U.S. stays on its own territory, the U.S. is good.
But it never did. Slightly bemusing...
Flag Pole Pear said:the battle of the bulge during world war 1.
Dreadsox said:
Canada...they are not supporting us? Interesting.
Western Europe? All of Western Europe? Or France and Germany?
Nah...no dictatorship there....Just a lot of greed. But that couldn't cloud their judgement now could it?
Food for oil benefits...hmmmmmmm