Ben Affleck was on the program just before Moore and I was fully impressed with his presentation although I didn't agree with everything he said. He was very well informed and was able to respond to O'Reilly's questions without dancing or using premeditated lines such as the now infamous, "Would you sacrafice your child..." O'Reilly even noted that he was impressed with the actor at the end of the interview.
At 18 you make a lot of mistakes. Drinking too much, staying out too late, that girlfriend, or maybe a box you checked while registering to vote. For me, I will only admit to the latter. I come from a family bulging with Democrats. My Grandparents passed the donkey down through my aunts, uncles, parents, and cousins. I should mention also that I live in an extremely l
O G San, Sorry. I misunderstood your comment. I officially retract my last reply. Your criticism is well heard though. I see several points in U.S. foreign policy that are hypocritical. And in terms of setting up 'despotic regimes areound the world,' yes, there are many historical facts to back that up. I would say that looking at history, the U.S. shouldn't be in the chronic business of nation building. My first post was talking about the CI
Well said PacDragon. O G San needs to understand that just because he believes U.S. foreign policy is hypocritical of U.S. values such as democracy, doesn't mean all arguments that support U.S. foreign policy are hypocritical.
O G San, You have to learn that being an internationalist is not in the best interest of the U.S. How are our interests secured by pandering to the European interests? They aren't. You are an idealist with no real perception of what really goes on in the world. You want a soft foreign policy that would mold to the ideals and goals of other nations which would directly harm the U.S. My reply was not hypocritical in the least if you read it. I s
Let me at least talk about the CIA. The espoinage business is a sticky business, no doubt. I won't say they have good intentions every time because Hitler had good intentions in his mind as well. What is boils down to for them is that the end justifies the means. Holding arms with "nice guys" isn't going to get you very far. The people in the business around the world typically aren't philanthropists if you get what I'm saying. Therefore they are force
The argument that the U.S. is a world bully is a joke. The fact is that no country other that the U.S. is as active in responding to the plights of people around the world. Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Turkey, North Korea, and Bosnia, just to name a few. Some of these nations we don't even have dimplomatic relations with yet we still send in massive amounts of food, medical supplies, and clothes. The U.S. assists people around the world even when
Confessions Queen, Sorry to take you off your throne but polygamy is legal in Utah and Arizona. Do Mormon's still practice it? The mainstream block doesn't but there are groups who still do. My cousin lives in Utah and he knows a few kid who come from polygamist families. Gay's are being segregated? The dictionary defines segregation is, "The policy or practice of separating people of different races, classes, or ethnic groups, as i
I'll give you exactly the history books I have been reading and I don't need to check them again. Gays were killed by Hitler? Yes. Who wasn't? Hitler was willing to kill everyone except for white german christians. So you have no point GCJ. Were gays ever in slavery? Nope. They were never segregated. It's such a bad argument to compare them it isn't even funny. They aren't a ethinic group like jews and blacks. Being gay is a lifestyle. Blacks and jews
There was nothing constructive in any of the above replys. Only people who don't have any arguments step away from the topic as you two have so nicely done. Will gay marriage redefine the traditional marriage? No, it will undefine it. Gay marriage is being faught on the grounds that gays are being discriminated against. The same argument can be made for polygamy (which is legal is Utah), beastiality, and people who love in-animate objects. To
First of all to valleyboy : Very true. Wahhabism has been spreading geographically since about the 1970's as you stated. I was speaking to the fact that in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Oman (AKA the Arabian Pen.) it is nothing new. The fact that it is spreading to Indonesia and jumped over to Qatar is now something that we should be concerned about. Especially considering the mullahs of Wahhabism run the madrases which in no doubt in my mind create t
If the U.S. goes and fights fundamental Islam (e.g. Wahhabism) in Saudi Arabia or elsewhere in the middle east, we will lose. In fact, it will be counter productive. It would be like another country coming into the U.S. and trying to shut down conservative christian ideals. It would be horrendours here and especially there. More young men would be willing to devote their lives to the jihad against the West. Wahhabism has been around for 300 years and i
When I was comparing Marijauna to Cocaine it was in an effort to show that there can't be distinctions made between the two without saying, well it's not as bad as coke so it should be legal. Because then the slippery slope argument comes into play, legalize pot because it's not as bad as this drug and it's more like this other drug, then what are the standards for other drugs? I don't think legalizing a drug should come as a result of how many people
I forgot to add the issue of driving. How will that be handled. Driving after smoking is not safe. It has been shown to be just as dangerous as drinking and driving in some cases. Do we have the technology for police to use that can detect if people have been smoking. This issue needs to be closely examined before we take any steps at legalizing pot.
I agree with Dynosoar with his slippery slope argument. How do you distinguish Marijuana from Cocaine? A lot more people do it? But that doesn't make it right. It isn't as harmful? You can't justify legalizing this by saying it isn't as harmful as something else. Then people will say, hey what about tobacco related deaths per year? Nobody dies from pot! Well nobody dies from tobacco either. They die from lung cancer caused by smoke in your l
Funny how Europeans are just getting it when the modern birth of the term "terrorism" came from France in 1793 with the Reign of Terror compliments of Robespierre.
cgarrett, To say that these people have been, "denied functioning democracies" as a result of actions taken by the United States is nothing but a false statement. For that to be true Iraq would have gone to a democracy right after the war ended. These people don't want a democracy, they want a theocracy, the current situation in Iraq exemplifies that. It's all about religion. Also, to say that oil is the result of our problems in the middle e
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