It would be more beneficial for you to tell me what you think and to prove to me the measure of progress you claim has happened rather than assume (incorrectly) what I think. I respect your knowledge Hydrogen, you are very bright on many topics. I am just not seeing any proof in regards to...

It's simply today's dishing of more of the same sad state of affairs. The issue isn't how the children were murdered, it's the reaction to their death. They want the liberators killed! We're not winning the hearts and minds of Afghans. Also, what sort of proof do you have in your...

I cannot prove a negative. I cannot defend progress where evidence of it does not exist.

This is another example of the progress we are doing in Afghanistan. We lost the people there years ago. The current strategy is not working. Other NATO nations are not supportive of the way things are being handled. The blood-spattered bodies of two boys were on display from the open...

:D I forgot, thanks for the reminder.

Considering you had threads on religion shut down for less than what you said to Jade Lee, I would think you would get it.

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Hydrogen, I am not advocating pulling out of Afghanistan completely. I want us to help anyone in the world who lives under oppression. I am just not seeing progress in Afghanistan. There is a great amount of distrust towards the West because we've propped up tryannies far too many times. When...

Here is your problem, after 7 years of your militaristic solution the Taliban is still in control, girls still are not getting educated and terrorists are harboured now in Pakistan. I simply do not agree with you that there has been progess, sure in Kabul but not across the nation. Your way...

I am not advocating doing nothing, just not more of the same ineffective military action taken over the last 7 years. When what you are doing is not working, doing more of the same is stupid. I am really tired of strawman liberal bashing arguments. I don't see any liberal on here making...

9/11 simply was men with box cutters and misguided religious and political beliefs, not a nation. The Western leadership needs to realize the Taliban (as horrible as they are) had nothing to do with 9/11, it was Al Qaeda and after all these years we have to realize we are never going to...

How many years until we get to call it Vietnam 3.0?

I think ESL is a great program and well worth every penny. I wish they would expand it. I am native English speaker but my partner is not. He speaks English well and writes fair. I wish they would have programs catered to different skill levels of English or that just focus on writing...

Thanks for the pics, I also enjoy historical photos amd imagining what it was like to be there at that time. I am looking down at part of one of those building right now.

The government doesn't have book telling them it's easier to put a camel through an eye of a pin than for a wealthy man to have eternal life. A basic teaching of Jesus Christ is against the accumulation of things over the lives of people. It's hypocrisy of the church to hold this vast wealth...

Keith, the Catholic Church does apply it's rules selectively. Every election cycle in the US Bishops publicly declare any politician that supports abortion or same sex marriage should be denied communion. I have yet to hear them proclaim the denial of communion for those who supported the...

Try being a gay kid growing up in the Catholic Church, if you survive the experience you can hardly find much good in it.

There is no room for Jesus with Michael Coren always throwing himself up on the cross.

Sure I will accept Carter if you accept Chavez has fasicst tendencies based on his actual quotes and actions against democracy in Venezuela. The only blind person I see in this thread is the one who won't concede an inch, some of us admit Chavez has done some good, but you refuse to admit...

Democracy Via Tear Gas the Chavez Way Venezuela opposition attacked after Chavez speech CARACAS (Reuters) - Assailants attacked Venezuela's opposition with tear gas on Monday after President Hugo Chavez told police to use gas at anti-government public disturbances ahead of a referendum on...