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    Are the EU and UK doing enough to prevent Islamofascism?

    No, I don't. The video that you posted was interesting, but it hardly convinced me that radical Islam is broadly similar to Naziism. It is an image splice with very little text; most of the pictures go altogether unexplained, and where there is text, it is either too blurry or too briefly...
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    Are the EU and UK doing enough to prevent Islamofascism?

    Out of curiosity, where'd you get that number? It sounds like part of a larger study... link? Link? *looks about eagerly* In answer to your question, it's not that we've done too much or too little so much as the wrong things. I know that that's not much of an answer, but... I think that...
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    Religion in Congress

    Aside from what everyone else has already said, this struck me as interesting: assuming that holy books were used at the actual swearing in, wouldn't you want your representative to be sworn in on his own holy book, if for no other reason than to be sure that he actually felt bound by his vow...
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    Can you call yourself Christian and be Pro Abortion/Choice?

    Since people do it, yes. Simple enough. And as for their being real Christians... if they say they are, who's to say they're not? Since Christianity isn't... monolithic, it seems to me that no one group can tell another that its members aren't believers as long as they all share the same basic...
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    Likability poll bad news for Kerry

    Given that he was, arguably, picked mainly on the basis of his being the man figured to have the best chance at beating Bush, the news doesn't really surprise me quite so much as it might otherwise have done. Combine that with his recent gaffe (and the fact that he lost the election, after all)...
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    Is Condi Rice A Failure as Sec. of State?

    I rather think that she's a capable woman who's had both hands firmly tied behind her back by the Administration's all-important Loyalty Requirement. If that be the case, it's impossible to know how she would employ them if she had their use, so it's difficult to rate her in terms of capability...
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    Can we call this duck...by its name now?

    Yarr, me hearties (sorry; I have my pirate hat on at the moment). :2razz: Organized groups of Iraqis are killing their countrymen with the intention of advancing the goals or agendas of a particular segment of the population; I think that qualifies. "Sectarian violence" is a way of describing...
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    Made in the USA label

    But by that argument, North Dakotan manufacturers can't say "Made in the USA," yes? Is the label to be limited to thirteen states?
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    Made in the USA label

    I'd say no, but more because of semantics than because of politics. In Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary, "United States of America" is defined as "a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and...
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    Does world opinion affect foreign policy?

    Si, si. Of course it does; since people elsewhere in some sense control the events in any given place, their opinions are of course going to be factored into the calculations of the people in that place. Simple enough. Even deeply stupid leaders do it without thinking; it's just, I think, that...
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    McCain Says More Troops Needed in Iraq

    I rather disagree, both with his idea and his reason. First of all, it is my understanding that a huge amount of the violence against US troops is caused by the Iraqi people's perception of them as an occupying force. Most of the insurgents aren't terrorists so much as poor schmucks who just...
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    Is America Destined to Fall Like All Great Empires?

    You're right, obviously, although I would argue a couple of things here. First, that - while the active maintenance of friendly regimes in foreign countries (read: Central America) was for a long time a mainstay of U.S. foreign policy, I think that that era is drawing to a close. We've done...
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    Is America Destined to Fall Like All Great Empires?

    Just to clarify things: by "proper empires," I meant entities that derived the bulk of their power from unintegrated conquests. I never meant to deny that America has colonies, has pursued imperialist policies, or is, technically, an empire. So... I was really thinking in terms of nations that...
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    Is America Destined to Fall Like All Great Empires?

    What's an empire? And more to the point, what do you mean by fall? Proper empires like those of Britain, Spain, and the Netherlands - powers that existed more recently than the ones you cited - have long since fallen in the sense that they have lost their colonies and a lot of their political...
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    Rep. Rangel Will Seek to Reinstate Draft

    Regarding your first point: yes, but will the draft help us beat them? All I meant was that, if the War on Terror is won at all, it will be by small groups of highly trained soldiers with good intelligence. Once we've extricated ourselves from Iraq, troop shortages shouldn't be so much of a...
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