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20. Russia and China will have attacked one or more of their neighbors

Reply to Algernon Moncrieff (Reply #9)

Wed Feb 18, 2015, 02:11 PM

Feb 2015

Does anyone really think allowing Russia and China free reign to do what they will is a good idea?

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An open-ended survey: What, if anything, should the United States do about IS/ISIL/ISIS? [View all] Algernon Moncrieff Feb 2015 OP

I'd want to know where they get CJCRANE Feb 2015 #1

especially the orange jump suits /nt think Feb 2015 #2

I saw that photo also. And I wondered the same thing. jwirr Feb 2015 #19

Send Hillary over there to fix it up. L0oniX Feb 2015 #3

As the old proverb goes, be careful what you wish for Algernon Moncrieff Feb 2015 #5

"More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones." DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2015 #13

Analyze whether they are a threat to the US as far as terrorist attacks treestar Feb 2015 #4

Apropos of nothing, this is probably the view that most closely mirrors my own Algernon Moncrieff Feb 2015 #8

Nothing WDIM Feb 2015 #6

Remove all military equipment and personnel from the mid-East for a start. Sancho Feb 2015 #7

Serious question: if we did that, what do you think would happen in five years? (nt) Algernon Moncrieff Feb 2015 #9

Russia and China will have attacked one or more of their neighbors Lurks Often Feb 2015 #20

China is not territorially expansionist AgingAmerican Feb 2015 #24

Then you haven't been paying attention to the news from the Far East Lurks Often Feb 2015 #26

You push the RW talking points AgingAmerican Feb 2015 #27

Oh please Lurks Often Feb 2015 #31

You are pushing the RW position AgingAmerican Feb 2015 #32

And thinking like yours is naive Lurks Often Feb 2015 #33

No it wasn't AgingAmerican Feb 2015 #34

So according to the you the President is taking a right wing position? Lurks Often Feb 2015 #36

"The Middle east was peaceful for centuries before we came there." geek tragedy Feb 2015 #37

+1 Scuba Feb 2015 #11

Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, and Israel need to form a coalition and each pick an IS target world wide wally Feb 2015 #10

Ask our "friends" who are funding them onecaliberal Feb 2015 #12

Interesting to note: our "friends" also created the Taliban Algernon Moncrieff Feb 2015 #18

No doubt, our "friends" have made the world a dangerous place. onecaliberal Feb 2015 #21

We'll be fighting them, not just bombing them, at some point The2ndWheel Feb 2015 #14

Pressure the Gulf States to stop funding them. riderinthestorm Feb 2015 #15

Let them go at it like it used to be before they found out they had a rich Uncle (Sam). libdem4life Feb 2015 #16

The Jimmy Buffett theory was a form of stimulus Algernon Moncrieff Feb 2015 #22

Oh thank you...I just laughed my a## off...my sociology education has just been libdem4life Feb 2015 #41

I don't feel like doing much with them really. Xyzse Feb 2015 #17

That they aren't on our shores leftynyc Feb 2015 #39

In the larger scheme of things, yes, it is overblown. Xyzse Feb 2015 #40

Well leftynyc Feb 2015 #42

That is a key difference. Xyzse Feb 2015 #44

Contain them by arming their enemies, and they will fall of their own folly or evolve bemildred Feb 2015 #23

yep nt geek tragedy Feb 2015 #38

Stop fucking up the region so that thugs can rise to power NightWatcher Feb 2015 #25

Nuke 'em to glass! KamaAina Feb 2015 #28

We should hand Bill O'Reilly a Bible and a rifle... hunter Feb 2015 #29

We have a situation which is not going to be stopped by sitting down to tea. Thinkingabout Feb 2015 #30

The US can't do anything, except fadedrose Feb 2015 #35

Stop arming the world. JackRiddler Feb 2015 #43

UN Security Council. n/t Orsino Feb 2015 #45