Sigh... don't you hate it when a good Foreign Policy debate degenerates into partisan bickering. :D

not just anyone can fly a fighter.mainly because it IS alot like rocket science.didn't you bother to read what i posted?you need a good understanding of physics and math before they let you fly them.the training is also very demanding,both mentally and physically.
well if the business failed miserably he would not have been able to sell it.the business went sour because EVERYONE in the oil industry at the time was experiencing a down turn in business.
he failed with the rangers?he made $14,000,000 when he sold his share of the rangers.i wish i failed as badly.
how do you think gore got anywhere in life?by himself?not likely.
gore was in the army about 6 months.that's when his DADDY got him his deferment for divinity school.
are you kidding?most of what they do is just find inventive ways to waste our money.lets look at hmo's shall we?edward m. kennedy has spent the last few years lambasting the republicans over the hmo debacle.but he is one of the people who brought us health maintenance organizations.they have spent massive amounts of money on welfare with nothing to show for it.trillions spent on the great society wasted.
wow!you mean the dems voted bush into office?they must have because the dems ran ALL the counties where there were disputed ballots.no it's just the people in those districts must be pretty stupid that's all.when i lived in chesapeake virginia we used the same butterfly ballot that they used down there and we had no problems with the machines.

and where did you get this bit of trash?the dnc?
reagan had to increase spending in order to build the military back up after the dems crippled it.
just like a lefty.if someone disagrees with what you think is right they are automatically labeled as either racist or dumb.

yeah,germans are a pretty moral and upstanding bunch huh?when ever there is a big disaster who sends help?WE DO.who helped rebuild europe after it's second war to end all wars?WE DID.the world would be a pretty screwed up place if it wasn't for US.
and we did elect bush president despite what some people might think.

[ 04-22-2002, 05:15 PM: Message edited by: khazadman ]

hell no!i love it!

Now khazadman, You know only those people on the political left here in the USA can call others names, and lable them while saying name calling and labling is wrong and bad :D

[ 04-23-2002, 02:39 AM: Message edited by: John D Harris ]

When one reflects on how the West in general and the US in particular are driving the whole world towards an ecological abyss, one is very much apt to wonder how much store one can set by any claims to a morally superior position on the part of the West as opposed to the rest.

No offense KTOng but before you go pointing fingers at everyone else regarding ecological disasters I think you'd better take a hard look in the mirror.

BY FAR, the primary demand powering the EXTINCTION of rare and endangered plants and animals is demand in asia for those species... to be used in folk remidies and aphrodesiacs of all things.

As I said before, it's very easy for people to point fingers at others and feel all high and mighty, but truth to tell there's not many of us who are in a position to throw stones in this glass house we call the earth.

[ 04-23-2002, 11:16 AM: Message edited by: Thoran ]

The former Soviet Union and Asia are far far more hard on the environment than the west is. There are thousands of square miles where nothing can live due to wanton nuclear waste dumping and testing, places where humans are deformed and mutated due to radiation....Id say, the west isn't spotless but It is making more attempts to clean itself up than the east. The waterways around Hong Kong, and other industrial areas in the asian theatre are quite poluted. Im also pretty sure that it is not the Anglo population of North america killing tigers so men ca eat their testicles for virility.

You can't just point to one entity and say "They are responsible" for every problem on the globe, no nation on earth is THAT dominant.

Actually the whole thread was not about foreign policy, it was supposed to be about new theories concerning the cold war..which by the way there is no real secret to where the cold war started or how or why. It is all a matter of history. They used to teacht hat subject in US public schools, but have recently dropped history for multi-culturalism and self esteem classes instead.