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It's really hard to read all of the overflowing responses to your outrage...

On the other hand, cutting the serpent's head in Lybia, for a democratic change that people wanted. I was astonished by the lightning speed of governments. Like, two-three weeks into the crisis and they freeze his goods abroad. WOW. America could have been a textbook hero there, almost like in the movies. As could have Europe.

Seriously, why is anyone doing anything but pitching ideas to enhance JonS' script?

Good. I reckon my point was that. Since we go for quality, why not go all the way?

This forms a nice contrast with the medicin-less healing thanks to the mind. Eh...

Then would you agree that the already smaller, more specialized and trained army of today should perhaps be even stricter in its moral and psychological requirements? A broken youngster is another tragedy I don't like. Ah, I wanted to see Afghanistan and the situation for myself, but a bureaucratic error barred my access in the italian army.

Don't personally care. The humanist level is where my interest lays. For me, one trigger happy soldier in the military is one trigger happy soldier in excess. Throw, throw. We need more spare change.

Of course, again, I'm not denying that terrorists are villainous, calculating scumbags deserving death. But pregnant women, unborn babies, a farmer that minds his own business, a kid coming back from school... please, put yourself in the trousers of a family head coming back from work. You don't care much about anything, just trying to live. You come home, see it blasted from a foreign bomb... you won't give a damn that bomb killed Bin Laden's whole lineage in the process. Please, do this mental exercise seriously. One should check the fault of unarmed people after eliminating the armed threat, is what I'm saying.

Whatever a gentleman desires, Dietrich... Didn't see the thread, sorry. Just giving my two cents to abneo as to why people like Assange have an importance.

Again, adducing well known examples of terrorist induced death does not reduce horror. And I know that efforts are made, at least officially: but there are many cases in which certain soldiers acted very, very quickly to terrorist presence with overkill power. The first things that comes off the top of my head is those polish soldiers mortaring a village where some terrorists hid, and they hit the maternity ward of an hospital. These things, and the fact that complicit silence of some officers about such episodes is there because they think that the end justifies the means horrify me, not the blunders of a stressed soldier in an emergency situation that maybe hits a running civilian in a firefight.

But tell me just one thing, abneo, assange or not... the civilian deaths. What do you think of them? Unavoidable? Grave? Acceptable if they lead to a military payoff against al-qaeda? It was not the government or anything that hooked me up to the assange story, but the confirmed suspicion I had that more civvies died (at the hands of ISAF soldiers) than the mainstream media ll across the board knew. The thing I hate about war, and always will is the death of unarmed people caught in the crossfire. Yes, I know terrorists blow up civvies remorselessly in a routinely fashion, and that's not the point. The point is when the morally superior west does it also. Cumprende where's my pickle? I don't give a crap about homeland concerns if it means killing poor people elsewhere.

But, as I see it, the thing you'd be satisfied with would be Assange personally muckracking, and getting heroically blown up by IEDs as he gets his undercover story underway... is that in any way correct?

Thing is, the robber in question is considered robbing criminals by many, and thus providing a service. Not a simple thing.

please, cooooostie... you know damn well this reply will lead to an equal and opposite reaction. And will lead nowhere... Truce, to pick up the bodies, as in olden greek time? Pretty please with whip cream and naked women on top?

I know, but the demand came quite before visual ID... and that voice didn't give me the impression of "we're scared ****less of being sitting ducks sir, please confirm and let us defend ourselves from a possible attack". They were calm all the time. Sorry, that's just how it struck me.

The famous 2007 baghdad video? RPGs or not, what creeped me out in that video was the pilot's demeanor. The eagerness to get permission, the "business as usual" feel... creeped the **** outta me

Child, manchild, aluminum, aluminium...

As I heard it, he said about the informants that they "knew the risks". Link to the "deserved" sentence, plz? It is relevant to my interests.

They taught you eristics in school? That's pretty hardcore. A peculiar thing to teach to children, at the very least.

Plus, remember the misunderstandings that arise out of meatspace. If you're speaking softly with your voice, it's a thing: the words on a screen can be charged with whatever emotion by the beholder!

And thank you. But some childish delusions still scratch the back of my head... eh eh

1) I emigrated in Italy. 2) 2004? What happened in 2004 in Croatia? As I recall the spanking new highway in Dalmatia was underway making my almost yearly trip down south soooo smoother. Greatest trouble was 1990-1995, so...

Can I be honest? It is, in general, the fact that you come with minority opinions (as I anderstood by all the major posters), at least in this board, and you just have a way of striking someone's nerve. Your biggest blunder was titling a thread "an interesting beginning to the global warming farce". To put such a title on a forum someone should at least expect some degree of consensus, but... you were alone against all as I recall. The assange thread had a good, neutral title - but then you call a man whose work many people admire a paranoid, and... Tact, dude. Tact.

Croatian, actually. And trust me, from 18 to the end of 2010, I squeezed my brain for answers, knowledge etcetera, but simply the factuality of the harsh things of the worls can - and must - live with an interior serenity. Because if things are **** and you can help, then help, and if you can't... you only do a disservice (to yourself and others) by brooding. You know when my most vehement youthful idealism died? 14. :cool:

I don't personally think it was because of him being Australian.