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  1. Haven't heard the comments, but I wouldn't be surprised if Cruz had this feeling. He did, after all, state that anyone of Muslim faith would be unfit to be president. He himself should be disqualified on that basis alone.
  2. Well, this clinches it for me. I'm voting for Trump because he is clairvoyant. What else do we need? http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/donald-trump-feel-terrorism-article-1.2437276
  3. Damned sweatsuit antics! GO SABRES!!!
  4. Oh, I follow it alright. We've been in bed with the Saudis since well before they became a country in 1932. And that is precisely the point as to the folly of issuing ultimatums to countries that sponsor terrorism. I can't speak for all terrorists, but a shared ideology of Sunni fundamentalism is a common thread between the Saudi royals and the most desperate ISIS recruit from the region.
  5. The Sunni kingdom of Saudi Arabia, founded on the same principals of Wahhabism as ISIS, has spawned and sponsored more terrorists than any other nation in the area. Good luck issuing them an ultimatum, let alone following through if they don't respond.
  6. Two guys that like possessing the puck wasn't going to be an easy chemistry test. But if Kane could have potted a few of those open looks on great feeds from Eichel early on, I think the chemistry would be farther along. GO SABRES!!!
  7. OK, send a "message". What is the "message" and to whom do we send it?
  8. I don't understand how anyone can question this man's heart, on and off the ice. GO SABRES!!!
  9. Those lines may appear arbitrarily drawn, but they weren't. It was a result of a compromise for oil comcessions among a host of big oil companies and other financial interests from around the world, chief among them Standard of New Jersey (EXXON), BP, and Royal Dutch/Shell. A red line was literally drawn from the northern Turkish border South to the Arabian Sea, west to the Red Sea, and east to the Persian Gulf.
  10. ISIS would not exist in Iraq, but it may still have organized in Syria. They took advantage of a popular movement against Assad and took control of its major oil fields in the process. Ironically Assad helps to fund his enemies in ISIS by buying from them the very same oil he no longer controls. You can't make this schit up.
  11. The Giants got a few licks in, but it's not like they sustained pressure all day. Christ, Brady threw for over 200 yards in the 4th quarter alone and long after Edelman was lost for the day. We have to play a perfect game and hope NE**** screws the pooch a couple times. I look for Bellyache to send pressure through the A gaps like he did the first three quarters in the first game. Taylor has shown limited ability to make teams pay when they bring extra pressure and until he makes teams pay, it will be the same story. As for stopping Brady, pick your poison and hope he is having an off day. GO BILLS!!!
  12. Cool beans. But I think all those reruns of 'The Honeymooners' and 'I Love Lucy' got a head start.
  13. I think what we stand for is well delineated and articulated by US presidents present and past. We know who the enemy is and what his intentions are. Diplomacy is important in enlisting the very allies we need to win this fight at street level. Words are extremely important and don't mean the same thing to a culture so different than ours. Context is key and easy to misinterpret. What is the difference between radical Islam and Islamic radicals? Your interpretation is quite different than that of the man on the street in the Muslim world. And that man on the street in the Muslim world is key to the whole thing.
  14. We can feel free to say "radical Islam" all we want. But there is a very real diplomatic element that better advises world leaders not to use the same phrase. And it's prudent. Why is it so important for our leaders to say the same thing, anyway? Does that increase the sense of bonding we have in the face of the horror? Does it reassure anyone that "finally" our leaders really know who the true enemy is? As if we or they don't know already? This argument over semantics is useless and serves nothing.
  15. You'd be well advised to better acquaint yourself with the entire history of the North Korea nuclear program. The memories of democracies aren't short so much as they are highly selective.
  16. Not oil rich, no. But it has vast untapped reserves of minerals and natural gas. And it is a strategic crossroads in the world given its borders. Agree entirely about those wealthy nations as I touched upon previously.
  17. That is when Pakistan successfully tested and then declared themselves aa nuclear weapons state.
  18. Israel would be a concern, still. But a vast sector of the region, literally, was shaped on a map, divided up, renamed, and developed by big oil over the last hundred years. I ask myself what is the difference between the oil rich countries in the region without internal strife and those that are always fertile ground for recruitment by radical factions? In a word: economics. Those countries that give their people a stake in the wealth, like Kuwait, vs. those that don't. I'm looking at you, Saudi Arabia.
  19. And so I repeat, the largest single contributing factor to enabling ISIS to establish a foothold in Iraq, other than the removal of Hussein as a check in the entire region, was the conscious decision by Maliki to exclude the Sunni minority and deny them a seat at the table in establishing a new Iraq. His prejudice made it too easy for military and police personnel to defect and bring a ton of weaponry along. Nobody seams to want to hold Maliki accountable it seems.
  20. Oil has driven ME policy of the US, UK, Russia, France and Europe for over a hundred years and has fomented many of the anti-West movements in the region since BP first discovered major oil in what is now Iran in the early part of the last century. I urge everyone to read Daniel Yergin's 'The Prize', considered one of the best books ever written on the subject of oil.
  21. Who is on the ground administrating this plan and what is the personnel ratio relative to the population? The Middle East isn't just one giant problem area. It is a giant problem area with a myriad of problems across a huge geographical area with a countless number of antagonists, bad actors, and corrupt politics. We would need to implement a Marshall Plan on an exponential scale compared to post WW2.
  22. From illegally dealing with Iraq in the late 90s to illegally selling Iran nuclear centrifuges to enrich their Uranium, there is no rogue nation too rogue for Halliburton.
  23. What can I say? I saw a player going through the motions for long periods in those last twenty games and I don't confuse that with simply not knowing what he was doing. Especially when he had played much better previously. You can't hide lack of effort behind lack of experience. Not hustling to a puck is not hustling to a puck. Not hustling to clear a man is not hustling to clear a man. GO SABRES!!!
  24. Appreciate the clarification here. She does NOT pander to other audiences, only her own.
  25. Anne Coulter is the epitome of pandering to an audience by saying EXACTLY what they want to hear.
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