Egypt is falling

[Jim H]

Late nineteenth century writers excoriated the Crusaders as early-day robber barons, and gave the creators of the modern jihadist movement a wonderful propaganda tool.  Muslims today are more angry about the Crusades than Muslims were for centuries immediately after the Crusades ended.

Pretty much everyone in any war you look at in those days is bad.  There aren't really "good guys" back then - the lack of valuation of human life and dignity is really appalling.  If I'd personally had to pick which side was morally superior, I'd have gone with the Muslims on the whole...  But really, if anyone was doing today what both sides were doing back then, we'd look upon them as monsters.  Only the grace of centuries of time has let us look at it any differently.

It's just plain stupid for them to get riled up about it today.

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

If there really is mummy's curse those guys are TOAST.

Yeah, burnt toast... 

[lester1/2jr]

http://goo.gl/15Fj6


Vin Diesel is expressing solidarity with the Egyptian people. This thing might happen.

[Doggett]

http://goo.gl/15Fj6


Vin Diesel is expressing solidarity with the Egyptian people. This thing might happen.

oh, well, now that Vin Diesel is behind them...


It actualy made my skin crawl reading that.

[lester1/2jr]

Anything Vin Diesel is for, I'm for.

[Doggett]

Anything Vin Diesel is for, I'm for.

Well, I'm not decided yet.

I'm waiting for The Rock to get involved. Then I'll be behind it 

[Jack]

Anything Vin Diesel is for, I'm for.

Even his movies?   

[lester1/2jr]

no  idraw the line there.

OKay the protesters are having a soccer tournament and the army is joing in. seriously

[Doggett]

I've been watching this on BBC News 24 and one of the protesters had a sign saying:

GAME OVER, MAN !

[Couchtr26]

Well, far as I can see, I have little or no hope for a human rights group to step in because of the one-sidedness of this thing in the past, and by that I mean this:

All we heard about from guys like Bono and the ACLU and Jesse "the fake Navy SEAL" Ventura, were abuot the stuff WE do to THEM.  Gitmo, water boards, torture, etc.

But yet, we never hear any mention of the Taliban slitting Daniel Pearl's throat,  the Pakistani-based acid attacks against women (and the burning of womens' schools) or the little Iraqi boy Yousef, whose face was disfigured by Iraqi Al-Qaeda about 5 years back, after they poured gasoline on him.  

Or if they did say anything, I haven't heard. But it always seems that noone addresses the atrocities on the other side of the aisle.

Excellent point and sadly some people don't react the same to certain ideas.  Strong arms tend to get the most credence in the area. 

[Couchtr26]

Anything Vin Diesel is for, I'm for.

Well, I'm not decided yet.

I'm waiting for The Rock to get involved. Then I'll be behind it 

Nah, Chuck Norris and Hulk Hogan.  I wouldn't have taken my vitamins as a young man otherwise.   

[lester1/2jr]

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

Well, far as I can see, I have little or no hope for a human rights group to step in because of the one-sidedness of this thing in the past, and by that I mean this:

All we heard about from guys like Bono and the ACLU and Jesse "the fake Navy SEAL" Ventura, were abuot the stuff WE do to THEM.  Gitmo, water boards, torture, etc.

But yet, we never hear any mention of the Taliban slitting Daniel Pearl's throat,  the Pakistani-based acid attacks against women (and the burning of womens' schools) or the little Iraqi boy Yousef, whose face was disfigured by Iraqi Al-Qaeda about 5 years back, after they poured gasoline on him.  

Or if they did say anything, I haven't heard. But it always seems that noone addresses the atrocities on the other side of the aisle.

Excellent point and sadly some people don't react the same to certain ideas.  Strong arms tend to get the most credence in the area. 

True.  It seems that only one side of the issue is always addressed.  Of course, I'm sure there are those in America who don't care about the atrocities of the other side because the them, the enemy of their enemy is their friend.

A mindset that, I'm sure, has it's place in the ignorance of the atrocities of Al Qaeda and their Taliban allies. 

Just the same way, in Berkeley, CA where they burn the flag and Code Pink tell the military to their face just how much they hate them.  Oh but how they'd be screaming for help if a combined Russo\Chinese invasion force landed in their backyards...

[lester1/2jr]

getting ugly there. The west has cut Munarak loose so he probably figures he'll get a few last shots in. What a guy. No wonder his people hated him.

[Doggett]

Not related to the current topic thats going on. But still pretty funny.






Geography lessons for someone at Fox news I think...