DukeNukeEm

Really fun series to watch. Bulls probably wont win on Saturday, and it probably wont be close... but it was a great ride. Probably the most excited I've been about NBA basketball since the Warriors/Mavericks series a few years back.

guiz, i r scairt.

Daydream (I dream of you amid the flowers) [for a couple of hours] <such a beautiful day> Come on, everybody... lets make cocaine cool!

That was all it took? I should've said that months ago.

Oh god if the Bears got Anquan Boldin that would be unreal.

kap, you can just not post in the filibuster and treat it as a white sox message board.

It's so f***ing difficult to enjoy that song.

Even if half of those deaths were actually the fault of the US 40,000 is still a ridiculous number.

There's a laundry list of mass-killings that have been a result of the CIA's canoondling around the world.

Our methods are definitely less direct, but to say people haven't been killed by the Western world for ridiculous reasons is a lie.

It's definitely one of the least desirable situations, but I'm losing more faith daily in Pakistan's state strength.

Class at 3:35. But I wouldn't mind.

I mean really here, you can pull this kind of s*** out for any country. Israel has basically adopted killing civilians as a foreign policy, China executes people for unfair business practices, the list pretty much never ends.

Laying claim to those two hurts your argument more than helps.

Haha you're telling me weapons have become less lethal over time? You couldn't be more wrong. Recent wars are less deadly because they are coming nowhere near pre-1945 conflicts in scale and scope.

Whoa, here we go with isolated incidents. This can go both ways you know?

You get that from Sean Hannity or Bill O'Rielly?

We've seen hegemonic instability since 1945 on a pretty huge level. In the past that would be enough for war, but a certain something has altered the playing field so durastically that major powers just will not fight each other. The one time they did America fired a war hero because it was so afraid of the conflict escalating. The system has gotten much more stable, especially since 1991. Wars have become less frequent and less deadly.

1) Khomenei has been hugely against the development of nukes, much less using them. 2) Mahmoud is smart enough to know how far you can go before America gets angry enough to attack Candidates must be approved by a council of 12, the Ayatollah has no direct say in the Presidency.

Yeah but Khamenei is pretty forward-thinking, didn't he push for Iran to legalize stem-cell research before the United States? There are quite a few checks on him, he can't just do whatever the f*** he wants. Plus there's a Parliament which still handles almost all of the legislature.

Only once has the been a war between major powers since 1945 (US and China, and it barely counts), that's the longest streak in modern human history.

One of the biggest reasons why it wouldn't be necessarily bad if Iran got nuclear weapons. Iran is fairly ethnically diverse, but their constitution is fairly clear about equality between those groups. The CIA has actually tried to destabilize Iran by inciting ethnic tension, and it didn't work. Iran is a strong, democratic and stable country with a loudmouth president who knows better than to match his words with actions, there's not much to be worried about giving them nuclear weapons. Israel being the sole nuclear power in the region is pretty dangerous. The one deterrent they have against using them is losing the support of the United States. If Iran got nukes it would force peace talks on Israel across the board, a lot of concessions by both sides and a huge decrease in violence matched with an increase in diplomacy. The region is a mess, and giving the most established powers on both sides nukes will put everyone on their toes. Most of you are so programmed with the "axis of evil" drilled through your thick skulls that you can under no circumstances view the international system from the lens other than that of an American. It's really a waste of my time to even argue this point.

It's getting to a point where direct military intervention in Pakistan might be necessary. I've been saying for years this where the biggest problem was, not Iran or North Korea.

I'm not sure Iran is as close as people say, even so there is almost no chance they'd ever use them. It would be a nice balance of power for the middle east, I kinda hope they do get them to bring some stability to the region.

No coincidence that I fear Pakistan more than Venezuela, Cuba and Iran combined.