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  1. tflex
    This is an excerpt of an exchange I was involved in with a high ranking Lebanese government official that I know through my fathers friend, I did lose my temper, my text is blue, his is in red:
     
    "They are not empty threats. Actually they are not threats at all. There is no need to threaten when the reality itself is indicative of a final showdown & victory against Israel. Israel will not live to see its 70th anniversary. Also, Imam Khoumeini was a peaceful man, that wanted to liberate Palestine, so the Palestinians can have a peaceful system based on equal rights for all the historic inhabitants of Palestine including the Jews ."
     
    "I will hold you to that date, you better be around in 2018, your credibility is on the line, as well as your medieval Jihadist ideals. Somehow, I get the feeling this date will have to be extended more than once by your generation and their generation on and on... Are you waiting for god to come down and liberate you from the evil 'jews', because your willingness to die for your fanatical cause won't be enough to wipe out Israel, it's gonna take a lot more than that, but it will be enough to wipe your young men out, when they could have been getting a decent education and building up their future and a family. What do you expect to do with the U.S., are they going to suddenly emigrate to Mars, or maybe your local mosque is giving you economy classes on how the U.S. economy will sink into eternal bankcruptcy, maybe it will according to the economic principles of the mosque, which are based on the same medieval Jihadist principles that predict Israel's destruction in the near future. Before you go around preparing to wipe out Israel from the middle east, you need to take it step by step, you have to start from the bottom of the barrel, try leasing a land somewhere out in the amazon away from the mossad, and practise war games with unarmed orangutans, see if you can invade their jungle, then work your way up, cause it will take a lot more than martyrdom to destroy Israel.
     
    Is that the same Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini who founded the Basij Force, you know were parents & mosques willingly volunteered approx. 500,000 brainwashed children as young as 9 years of age to participate in suicidal human wave attacks in the name of god, and were given keys to heaven worn around their necks, so they could use them to enter heaven once they were 'martyred'. 8/10 of these children died for Khoumeini, and as a reward he erected for them a fountain that according to Khoumeini and the Iranian government flows with their blood, in hollywood it is better known as cranberry juice. Talk about a grizzly monument, and this is the same kind of propoganda that Hizbullah & Hamas feeds their children, and the same Khoumeini that Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah idolizes."
     
    "So you deny them the right to celebrate the blood of the people who died for the country? what is with that? what is wrong with having a monument to celebrate the martyrs? no. i've seen Khoumeine on tv serve them dinner as humble and as modest as any servant on earth."
     
    "Do you see nothing wrong with taking advantage of children who aren't old enough to think for themselves being sent on suicide missions, is there nothing wrong with Khoumeini sposoring such murder of Iranian children, is it necessary to give them keys to heaven. Khoumeini is no different than Saddam, again Iranian T.V. inflates the numbers to 1 million, they actually want the number to be higher for propoganda purposes. Many Lebanese people watched the Iran/Iraq war during the 80s, and saw these images on their T.V. screen, Khoumeini's image of shaking the hands of these children and blessing them beofre their death, is reminscent of Hitler shaking the hands of Hitler youth in the last days of the battle of Berlin. If you see nothing wrong with children being sent to their death by their government, parents and mosques, than you are sick. Khoumeini is no different than Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Saddam, he is a mass murderer."
     
    "The Basij was on a purely voluntary bases. In fact, at least 1/3rd of the Iranian army was made up of volunteers."
     
    "Oh my goodness some people have totally lost all their senses, you call children as young as 9 years old, and most of them were children because it was easier to recruit them, you call that VOLUNTEERING!!! Have you no shame???? Go watch some footage of mothers and fathers kissing their children goodbye and smiling about it, it's a sick and brainwahed society."
     
    "Actually the youngest were 12. You have your beliefs and we have ours. We believe in martyrdom, as I said before, and you believe in turning Lebanon into Monaco. I respect your choice/vision but please respect ours."
     
    "You believe in murder, children 9 or 12 cannot think for themselves, Khoumieni, the government, their parents, and the mosques decided their fate for them, they are murderers, and the fact that you're not able to grasp that or admit that, means you are totally braiwashed yourself, but you're an adult, your political positions are suddenly so clear. I will happily debate issues with anyone with a different viewpoint, but I refuse to debate with someone that can't tell the difference between murder of children and martyrdom, as far as I concern, you've made your point loud and clear. But I will not continue to argue such madness and fanatacism. The nerve on some politicians, God help the children."
     
    "Let us not use deceptive measures to denounce legitimate means of resisting invaders. Had these boys been forced to do it, they would've run away while on the battlefield, but they did not. They walked through minefields without any fear, this shows that they believed in martyrdom so genuinely that any instinctual fear was overcome by it."
     
    All I can say with people like that, especially in government positions, the world & future worries me greatly, talk about an absolute nut. The scary thing is that the arab street thinks the same way.
     
    P.S. My dad's friend was pissed at me cause I offended this nut
  2. tflex

    North Korea Nuclear Test

    By tflex,

    I see this N. Korea test as a power game being played between the U.S. (the only superpower) and China (a future superpower). The U.S. is getting it's way again, and I truly believe the Bush adminstration wanted this nuclear test to occur in private, while in public they vehemently opposed it. Their refusal to enter into bilateral talks with N. Korea might be translated as the U.S. wanting to include China, Japan, S. Korea, and Europeans into the negotaitions, thereby not offending these key players; my translation is it's a very clever stalling tactic on the part of the Bush adminstration. The last thing China wants is to give Japan a reason to go nuclear, and the one thing N. Korea wants is attention, economic aid, political inclusion & becoming a key player on the world stage. I believe the U.S. played on Kim Jong-il's need for attention, and sat back as he prepared this nuclear test, simpy to stick it to China. Now, the U.S. has a legitimate excuse to let Japan go nuclear, and give them a green light to change their constitution, which would enable them to expand their military and balance out China in Asia. Ironically, the Japanese constitution in place now, was drafted by the U.S. to prevent the rebuild up of Japan's military after their defeat in WW2. With Japan preparing to go nuclear or just the possibility of it, the U.S. will have more leverage over China, and will most definately use Japan as a negotiating tool and a card against Chinese interests, as well as controlling threats to the U.S., such as Iran who is acquiring nuclear & military technology from China to oppose U.S. policies in the middle east. Don't be surprised if China halts it's support of Iran's nuclear ambitions in the near future. Furthermore, it should be mentioned that N. Korea is not a direct threat to the U.S., it does not have the technology to deliver a nuclear weapon, let alone one that could reach the U.S.
     
    Personally, I support such a strategy, China should be balanced out by Japan in the region. I'm very uncomfortable with the Chinese government cozying up with terrorist states like Iran and communist nuts like Chavez in Venezuela.
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    War & Loss Of A Country

    By tflex,

    It seems as though every 15 years or so, a war breaks out in my country of origin, Lebanon. Yes, I was there taking my summer vacation on July 12, when all of a sudden everything reverted back to the chaos and the mindset of the 15 year civil war that devestated my country, and cost 150 thousand lives out of an average of 3.5 million people during the war years.
     
    Reflecting back on the 18 days I spent there this sizzling July, I find it amazing how the human mind works. It's sort of like the terror alert system, you can switch it to adapt to a summer vacation of lazing around on the beach & drinking vodka on the rocks, and in literally a fraction of a second it switches into survival mode when there is a threat, like it would if suddenly you were getting chased by a hungry lion.
     
    For me it was like a flashback of the 80s; when the first bomb exploded in the distance that late July afternoon, immediately, my first instinct was to run for the mountains which are about half of a mile away from the coast, where I was sitting with my cousin. And once I would get there, I would take my position next to the artillery operated by my old friend, and cling onto that Kalashnikov like it was my highschool girlfriend; only there was no Kalashnikov, no mountain barracks, and my old friend living in sunny Australia thousands of miles away; yes, it finally hit me, the Phalangist or Christian resistance was dead in Lebanon! Now, 'we' the former warriors of mount Lebanon, the guardians of the cedars are nothing but spectators to a war between one of our former enemies Hizbullah, and our former ally Israel. Thats when I realized the only place I could run to was the shelter. I finally had to accept that the anceint people of Lebanon have been defeated by the foreigners residing in our land, and forced to emigrate by the thousands a country that has a new Islamic makeover and identity. Sadly, the demographics back this up, we went from a majority, to 50%, and now 38% of the population. We no longer have a source of arms, no real politcal support domestically or internationally, and our potential fighting men (18-40) leave everyday for greener pastures, I'm one of them, for I know it's a lost cause.
     
    If Israel is on the front lines of the war on Islamic fundamentalism, then we were behind the lines resisting everyday until the last bullet, which we eventually ran out of after 15 years of fighting our hearts out, unfortunately, the odds were stacked up against us. Personally, I was only actively involved in the latter years of that war, and also the most devestating years as a young teenager, and I haven't fired in anger on an enemy since then. But, on that late July afternoon 2006, I felt that unmistakable sensation again, that patriotic spirit, and was ready to throw away the life that I have built since, and dive straight back into the war zone, if only I could get hold of an AK-47.
     
    It is a terrible feeling that I wish on no one, to witness first hand the loss of one's country.
     
    tflex
  4. tflex
    Here's a different perspective on Globalism:
     
    I'm personally against globalism and it's effects on our world today. I am not an isolationist, but I'm against the loss of culture and loss of one's identity to a standarized system of living.
     
    I traveled all over the world back in the 80's and early 90's, and during this short period, the world simply doesn't look the same to me anymore; the only thing thats constant is change itself, but not at this speed. When I visit the same countries now, that I visited 15 or 20 years ago like Spain, Italy, France, Greece, the Middle East, Morocco, China, Thailand, I notice that their unique cultures are rapidly disappearing at an alarming rate, while being transformed into one standardized culture. This has been happening for a while since the invention of flight, television etc., but I think we are seeing the results now; the loss of historical languages unique to certain cultures being gobbled up by English, Spanish etc., the educational system is starting to look the same everywhere, most countries have scrapped their traditional form of government or political system, and have adopted a democratic system or are heading in that direction, capatilist economies and workers almost mimic eachother now, and even food is starting to taste the same, and so on...
     
    My first hand experiences:
     
    The food in my country doesn't have the same ethnic flavor that it use to. Most of the ingredients is now processed food, tomatoes taste of nothing, more like water, the spices are not as spicy, the traditional coffee has been replaced with Starbucks, and our local dessert has now been replaced with chocolate. We use to grow our own fruit, vegetables, and have our own beef & pork, but now we import most of our foods from Europe. It just doesn't taste the same.
     
    In Spain, there was a time when relaxation, social life and generally taking things easy were embraced. I still remember when I was in southern Spain in the early 90's, all the restaurants, shops, offices use to close between 1:30pm - 5:00pm for a good old Siesta. Two years ago, I was their again and was surprised to see that all the same shops, restaurants, offices remained open the whole day. The people were not as warm and friendly as they use to be, I guess it must be from the stress of your typical workday and less social and free time.
     
    I visited Dubai in 2003 and was amazed to find that going out to nightclubs on weekends was apparently the coolest and most exciting thing to do now. Hell, only a few years before nightclubs were non-existant in UAE. Now, dancing the whole night on techno and picking up chicks is the latest craze. The tradition use to be families and friends would gather, slaughter a lamb and just eat and socialize the whole night, talking politics, religion, history etc. Also, the men use to go out into the desert and hunt hares. This is very recent, only 15 years ago that was thing to do.
     
    Egypt use to be the capital of music in the Middle East and known well for their use of diverse instruments, colorful sound, and unique structure. All those unique instruments have now disappeared and mostly replaced by a standard guitar, violin, drums etc.
     
    When I was a kid I spent most of my time with friends in the outdoors playing soccer, climbing trees and just being mischievous. Now many of the kids in my country don't enjoy going out as much and being physically active, they would rather play a computer game or chat with their friends online.
     
    There was a time when speed limits on highways were non-existant in most non-western countries and some western countries. It was always so liberating to travel outside of England or the U.S. (where I've lived my last 16 years), and feed my need for speed. I use to race with a good friend of mine in northern Italy sometime in the early 90's. I went back there in 2002 to see my friend, and to my disappointment, there were speed limits everywhere and speed cameras. People still drive crazy there though, but it's changing, I guess it's safer this way. The Autobahn in Germany was known as the best place in the world for fast drivers, unfortunately Germany has also added speed limits in a lot of places. NO speed limits are now only assigned to the German countryside, I'm sure that will change too.
     
    There are so many other examples that I can give, but it would take me the whole night. The point I'm trying to make is that the world is losing it's diversity, everybody is copying everybody. The experience of the 'unknown' is disappearing, and I truly believe globalism will eventually affect and influence every single aspect of our lives. I guess after thousands of years of experimentation, mankind has finally decided this is the best way to live? I disagree...
     
    tflex
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