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US Foreign Policy: The Wogs Begin at Calais

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dxmnkd316 said:
Could be some serious shakeup in Spain. Catalonia voted to become an independent state. Protests there are getting intense. B
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Protests in Barcelona for/Against Spexit. The Spanish government was a bit perturbed on Spexit vote day.

Ugly.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
I wish Thomas Vanek had played right wing. Because then the clear answer would be "two national titles for Minnesota."
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Thomas Vanek only won 1 national title at the U. He wasnt on the 2002 team only the 2003 team.

Still would have been funny though ;)
 
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UN!! UN!!! UN!!!!

@HillelNeuer: U.N. just elected Qatar, Congo & Pakistan as world judges on human rights—joining Saudi A. It's like asking the foxes to guard the chickens.
 
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SHould be interesting. Spain's government has virtually failed at this point. How can a country have 50% youth unemployment?
 
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bronconick said:
Catalonia says "Screw you guys, we're going home" to Spain
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Both of those sides are completely incompetent. It's like they both started at the top of a garden of forking paths where every permutation but one led to safety, but one led over a cliff, and they said "challenge accepted."

Only explanation is they're bored. It's all been dull since Philip IV and they all got together and said "what this place needs is blood running in the streets like the old days."
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
SHould be interesting. Spain's government has virtually failed at this point. How can a country have 50% youth unemployment?
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Greece dreams of numbers that low.

The only solution is to ban medicine.
 
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Kepler said:
Both of those sides are completely incompetent. It's like they both started at the top of a garden of forking paths where every permutation but one led to safety, but one led over a cliff, and they said "challenge accepted."

Only explanation is they're bored. It's all been dull since Philip IV and they all got together and said "what this place needs is blood running in the streets like the old days."
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Rise of fascism in western countries and a civil war in Spain. I didn't need a sequel to this movie.
 
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Graham and McCain outdo Trump:

Predictable as Trump’s response to the attack was, his law-and-order tirade was not, incredibly, the most severe rhetoric to come out of Washington this week. Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain, who are often praised for their supposed foreign policy sagaciousness, showed themselves to be even more extreme than Trump. Both called for Saipov to be denied his constitutional rights, be labelled as an enemy combatant, and possibly be sent to Gitmo.

“The Trump Administration missed an important opportunity to send a strong message to terrorists and make America safer,” Graham said in a statement after the charges were filed. “This is a huge mistake. Very sad.” The South Carolina senator added, “It appears the Trump Administration is continuing the Obama policy of criminalizing the War on Terror by not declaring Sayfullo Saipov an enemy combatant.” Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, McCain said, “Take him to Guantanamo. He’s a terrorist and he should be kept there. And there’s no Miranda rights for somebody who kills Americans.” The Arizona senator offered a fuller explanation in this statement:

The terrorist attack in New York is the latest brutal, horrific example of the war that radical Islamist extremists are waging against our nation and our way of life. From Orlando to San Bernardino and Boston to Manhattan, we must not consider these attacks on our homeland in isolation, but rather recognize them for what they are: acts of war. As such, the New York terror suspect should be held and interrogated—thoroughly, responsibly, and humanely—as an enemy combatant consistent with the Law of Armed Conflict. He should not be read Miranda Rights, as enemy combatants are not entitled to them. As soon as possible, the administration should notify Congress how it plans to proceed with the interrogation and trial of this suspect.
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Everyone agrees on this much: Saipov, who shouted “Allahu akbar” (“God is great”) during the attack, is a Muslim. He is also, per federal charges, an alleged terrorist; he told law enforcement officers that he was inspired by Islamic State videos and asked for an ISIS flag for his hospital room. In Graham and McCain’s eyes, this makes Saipov an ISIS soldier on U.S. soil—an enemy in the global war on terror. “The idea that America is not part of the battlefield is insane,” Graham told reporters. “The Constitution is not a suicide pact.” In reality, Saipov appears to be a lone-wolf terrorist who, the Times reports, lived a “rootless life” with his family since coming to the U.S. in 2010:

He wasn’t exactly an extremist. Mr. Saipov liked fancy clothes, a vanity frowned on in conservative Islamic circles. He cursed as if he couldn’t help it. He routinely showed up late for Friday Prayer at the Islamic Society of Akron and Kent. He displayed only rudimentary knowledge of the Quran.

Over the three years he lived in the area, he started to change, said Mirrakhmat Muminov, a truck driver and local community activist. He became argumentative, aggressive even, and started to grow out his beard. Mr. Muminov described him as someone “with monsters inside.”
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Figures like Saipov turn to violence to give meaning to their troubled lives. Elevating these lone wolves as soldiers in a global war does exactly that, while also creating an incentive for copycats who are similarly in search of meaning. More importantly, America is not in a global war with ISIS, a regional terrorist group that’s in severe decline in the Middle East. Its threat to the U.S. homeland is extremely limited, consisting mainly of internet propaganda that occasionally captures the imagination of a desperate soul like Saipov. White American men are a deadlier domestic threat than Muslim foreigners.
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