Trump!

[Ashberto]

Talking sense about Syria, Iraq and Libya imo
- Middle East Would Be More Stable With Saddam and Gadhafi
- US largely has no idea who these rebels they’ve been funding and arming are, and predicting that Syria would go the way of Libya and Iraq, toward more chaos, if Assad was ousted.

http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/trump-middle-east-woul d-be-more-stable-hussein-gadhafi-n438156 (http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/trump-middle-east-would-be-more-stable-hussein-gadhafi-n438156)

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Ashberto]

But removing Assad will most likely only hand the country over to ISIS and AQ. This is apparently what David Cameron wants.

Unless the five remaining rebels that the US gave all that money to who haven't defected to ISIS can form a government.

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Berni]

Now the west needs ISIS to act as a bulwark against Russian expansionism - something they're perfectly capable of doing, since Russia's military capability appears to be about 30-40 years behind the times.

[Berni]

[Luis Anaconda]

[Berni]

[Luis Anaconda]

[Rich]

[Classic Jorge]

I thought they were an affront to everything we beleived in as a western democracy and also that the russians had been cured of their nasty socialism by being exposed to the beautiful, sacred lite of modern global capitalism.

Are you seriously suggesting you'd take ISIS over Russia?

Geopolitics is hard

[Luis Anaconda]

[Classic Jorge]

[Luis Anaconda]

Big Bad Russia a threat to the world again; madcap right-wing leader famed for appearing on the screen coming to power in the US; the New Romantics making a comeback in the charts...

Obviously only the last one is to be truly feared

[Classic Jorge]

[eastgermanautos]

isis though with their caliphate have made some impressive strides. burning people alive, sex slaves, all that.

[eastgermanautos]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Moving away from the loss of lives etc, quite superb.

Wd nutters.

[eastgermanautos]

[eastgermanautos]

[Classic Jorge]

[eastgermanautos]

[eastgermanautos]

[Berni]

As such, yes, you take ISIS over Putin.

So I for one applaud the brave and principled stand being made by our friends in Islamic State against unfettered Russian imperial aggression and believe we ought to do everything in our power to support them.

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

Because - apart from anything else - I'm pretty sure there's laws against that.

[Berni]

All this grubbing around fighting piddling little wars in deserts against religious fanatics is beneath all of our dignity. We should be facing off against the Russian Bear like in the good old days.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Classic Jorge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6U9T3R3EQg

[Classic Jorge]

http://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8tri7f1A11rnm1ldo1_r1_500.gif

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Beyond cool.

[Classic Jorge]

[Billy Goat Sverige]

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTppj-xgGpuZsKak-VsSmY8YLK_kqCH-BhgXJyZtMDLsGG1PQR1

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

They gave me velcro ones in Rowans a few weeks ago. The fact I was with my son saved the fella behind the counter from a serious kicking.

I channeled my anger and wiped the floor with the lad. He has to learn to lose.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

for about 2 days afterwards. Failing to stretch was a schoolboy error.

[Jake]

I wouldn't touch a thing where other people's feet have been involved from that gaff.

[Berni]

and they were playing that on a loop. Trying to explain to the kids that we grew up with that and the threat of nuclear oblivion every day of our youths was almost impossible. They just can't grasp how all-pervasive the threat seemed.

They were freaked out by all the typewriters, telex machines and telephones with dials, ffs, so what chance was there of explaining constant, nagging, existential dread to them?

[Brentwood]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

My main issue was one of embarrassment as my momentum on one of my throws caused me to more or less fall over in the alley. Thankfully it was about 11:30am and thus quite empty.

[Classic Jorge]

Cue a whole class of open mouthed, teary eyed schoolkids in silent shock for the rest of the day.

Lucky we're not going back to those da....oh

[Berni]

of the sickbay area is still plumbed in. I discovered this when my stepson decided to flush it. :rolleyes:

[Berni]

everything you've ever cared about could be obliterated in seconds to help a chap put things in perspective.

[Classic Jorge]

Or at least 'he who conquers will probably die in a huge superheated fireball, or if they're lucky a terrible, crippling radiation sickness anyway'

[Berni]

would be really rubbish. I can't even imagine how the place would start to smell after a couple of weeks. And one would be cooped ip with simply ghastly people. :-(

No, much better the fireball, thanks.

[Classic Jorge]

...reach was oddly comforting.

[Jake]

Having been spoilt by the high budget fakery of Disneyland, Universal and the ilk, I essentially thought that underground shed thing was one big smelly joke, right down to the old props.

Made for war I am.

[Berni]

a long way in four minutes and thus created a world-beating cross-country team.