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Four Marines killed in a rampage shooting, coincidentally occurring a few weeks after another one

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Dick Whitman, Jul 16, 2015.

  1. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    So what happens when the next terrorist is a Christian, Rand?
     
  2. franticscribe

    franticscribe Well-Known Member

    Since YF is hitting the dog whistle with impunity, I thought I'd throw this one out there:

    What we know about the Chattanooga shooter | Local News | Times Free Press

    Not sure I would've used that whole quote.
     
  3. Mr. Sunshine

    Mr. Sunshine Well-Known Member

    Really. No reason to single anyone out. It would be different if Muslim extremism had been a growing, worldwide problem for a couple of decades. This kind of stuff is pretty new. Still a lot to understand.
     
  4. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    There are none to the latter. But that doesn't mean there are a bunch of positive aspects to radical Islam. Apples and oranges. The belief in hospitality and charity, to the extremists, extends only to those who will follow their warped view of their religion. Everyone else runs the risk of being beheaded.
     
  5. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    Really? Is Vietnam such a distant memory, a war orchestrated and expanded by two Democratic presidents.
     
  6. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    And extended almost 10 years by two Republicans, who managed to ... wait for it ... LOSE THE GODDAMN WAR.
     
  7. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member


    And originally started with "advisors" under a Republican president, and was continued because nobody could look "soft on Communism".
     
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  8. JohnHammond

    JohnHammond Well-Known Member

    Please continue playing "Scoreboard!" with the other boys about a war that ended more than 40 years ago.

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  9. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    To be fair, the whole "policeman to the world" shit started under Truman. His doctrine, ya know.
    There was a little civil war going on in Greece. Yugoslavia begged Stalin to send help to the Communists. Stalin refused, saying "It's not in our sphere of influence." But amazingly, the U.S. decided this nation 5,000 miles away, and in a different hemisphere, was in its sphere of influence --- and so sent help, thus starting generations of senseless fear mongering, war starting, CIA coups, mujahideen helping and "with us or against us" shit that dogs us to this stay.
     
  10. Mr. Sunshine

    Mr. Sunshine Well-Known Member

  11. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    You mean like Dylan Roof? Someone attacked a Christian Church and killed a pastor and members of the congregation. That's terrorism. It was inflicted by a heterosexual Christian. A homegrown killer who didn't need to go to Jordan to learn to hate. He just stayed in the Confederacy, where hate is acquired
     
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  12. Mr. Sunshine

    Mr. Sunshine Well-Known Member

    You and Baron should talk more often. Lot in common.
     
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