The Battle Bar, Our Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy

Originally posted by NCRotCA
Could extreme emotional distress possibly be prolonged though, and not just in the moment?

No..

Originally posted by NCRotCA
Why yes it was. 😄

I don't know why you got that message though. If its from Neb then you're already using the exact same arguments as him anyway.

I'm pretty sure NC is also Neb.

It wasn't actually by the way I was just kidding.

Naturally.

So... Saudi Arabia is now on the new UN's Women council.

Saudi ****ing Arabia.

They did tip us off to a terrorist attack. shrug

Not that that particularly has anything to do with what your point is, lol.

Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
They did tip us off to a terrorist attack. shrug

Not that that particularly has anything to do with what your point is, lol.

Saudi Arabia is now our *****, especially after 9/11 and after some of their princes were assassinated by CIA/Mossad.

Warning: Mind**** Central. *

Seriously, that ending. herbha-son2

*Seizure warning btw.

Pretty much.

Originally posted by truejedi
btw, this got lost in RN deciding to sidetrack the argument by calling me a bigot:

The answer to this post is:

Kublai Khan controlling all of Asia because he wiped out every city who opposed him until no one did?

the anniversaries of Hiroshima and, Nagasaki, followed immediately by VJ day?

The first, regarding the Kahns, is telling. The Great Kahn held most of Asia. He held an empire larger (IIRC) than any other in history. He was also not a very nice dood. This is proof, you suggest, that being a not nice dood is the way to get things done.

It did get some things done. It cowed a continent and allowed for a reasonably durable dynastic tradition. (Then the greedy nobles tore themselves apart.) This sort of paradigm was used in China as well; after the revolution the Communists disappeared anyone with enough education to oppose them ideologically. If the United States wants to conquer and occupy and rule the Middle East, this may be a strategy that nets results. As far as I can tell, that isn't our goal though. We are there to stop or at least weaken the cycle of poverty and corruption that allowed Al Quaeda (?) to take power. Except for McCain, not many people have been willing to suggest that we stay there for hundreds of years.

Kublai Kahn style brutality may intimidate people, but you've yet to convince me that intimidating anyone is going to result in fewer terrorists. Fear of death is obviously not a concern for suicide bombers.

I'm unsure of how the dropping of the atomic bomb applies to this scenario. It was a single act of brutality, rather than a campaign of such actions. What parallel would be applicable to the War in the Mideast, and what do you believe the results of a single indiscriminate strike would be?

Guys, guys. Can't we all just be tangle buddies? 🙂

Originally posted by Nephthys
Guys, guys. Can't we all just be tangle buddies? 🙂

I really don't have the stamina for a linebyline anymore.

thanks Red, I agree. I cannot even do it in my new sarcastic mode. Block Paragraphs of two or three sentences is all I have. I am old and decrepit.

Excellent, we are now as one.

Originally posted by Zampanó
OK, I see your examples.

The first, regarding the Kahns, is telling. The Great Kahn held most of Asia. He held an empire larger (IIRC) than any other in history. He was also not a very nice dood. This is proof, you suggest, that being a not nice dood is the way to get things done.

Originally posted by Dr McBeefington
Second* largest empire.

That can't count!!! The British Empire wasn't all at one time was it? I've always said the Mongols had the largest.

It says that the Mongol empire at it's greatest extent was 33.0 million square KM.

The British Empire at it's greatest extent was 33.7 million square KM.

The Mongol empire was the biggest contiguous empire. The British were the biggest martitime empire.

Yeah, we're pretty awesome like that.