Iran

[Gunner18]

funny you should mention medicine...such as a nuclearpharmicist...im sure pale rider can give us all the info we want about that, but wait, nuclear must be reffering to war and bombs, it could never do the world any good.

[passarelli]

I actually argued the other day that Nuclear Weapons were a good thing, as they stopped World War III.

[TheAnalyst]

Indians were Communists. Gotta say I never heard that one.

com·mu·nism (kŏm'yə-nĭz'əm)
n.
1. A theoretical economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all members.
2. Communism
a. A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people.
b. The Marxist-Leninist version of Communist doctrine that advocates the overthrow of capitalism by the revolution of the proletariat.

so·cial·ism (sō'shə-lĭz'əm)
n.
1. Any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy.
2. The stage in Marxist-Leninist theory intermediate between capitalism and communism, in which collective ownership of the economy under the dictatorship of the proletariat has not yet been successfully achieved.

Now which is Cuba again?

I guess most people think communism=dictator and very few rights for the citizens, whereas socialism=elections with freedom but extensive gov't support for the needs of the people. There is hardly a true form of any type of government/economic model existing in the world today.

[Pale Rider]

Back in the day.....History was one of my 'favorite' subjects, though maybe not my best. I was taught that the Red Star, Sickle-and-Hammer, and the big, fuzzy Bear were all symbols of the COMMUNIST bloc of countries. Those countries at that time included, and I hope I don't omit any of them, the Soviet Union, Red China, Cuba, North Korea, the Balkan states of Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Albania, East Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and FRANCE. Just kidding on that last one. Who did I forget. It's amazing, I was taught all this history and world economic stuff by predominantly LIBERAL educators. Will wonders never cease!

[D-nice]

socialism is great! stop hating! why should i work when talented people like hollywood can do all the work

[Gunner18]

I actually argued the other day that Nuclear Weapons were a good thing, as they stopped World War III.

um..i guess "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" didnt come into your equations, just incase you didnt know those were the nicnames for the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. the dropping of these two NUCLEAR bombs instantly killed 120,000 people and over twice as many died as a result. lets call that an even 300,000. thats more than Vietnam, Korea, Gulf I and Gulf II combined.
thats one heck of an argument you made there mr. commie.

[TheAnalyst]

I received the same education you did PR. Boy, were we misled!! It's probably not politically correct to refer to anything as communist anymore.

By the way Pass, is it Christian to sit by and do nothing to help people who are suffering when you have within your ability to do so?

[LionPride]

You know what I find somewhat hilarious about this thread?

We have an elitist, condescending snob that has hijacked the thread, calling others stupid, retarded, non-Christian, etc. He thinks he is morally superior to everyone else. He has bad-mouthed everyone else's ideas (even though some were somewhat extreme) on what to do with Iran. Yet he has still failed, after 6 pages, to give one idea of his own on how to deal with the situation.

He'll just sit around and wait for someone else to take care of the problem, then bi*** about the results later.

He claims to not be a liberal, but that attitude sure does remind me of one.

Come on, let's hear your solutions and ideas now. I'm giving you the opportunity to put them on the table now, so you have a leg to stand on later. Your posts don't have to be about put everyone else down to make yourself feel superior.

[once a runner]

[quote="TheAnalyst";p="116970"]By the way Pass, is it Christian to sit by and do nothing to help people who are suffering when you have within your ability to do so?[/quote]
So why aren't we in Cuba creating a democracy instead of letting Castro run the people into the ground? Why do we let China continue to get away with human rights violations? Iraq wasn't the only oppressed country in the world.

[TheAnalyst]

Who said anything about Iraq? We can't save the world though we sometimes think it is our responsibility to do so. But OAR it sounds like you are saying it's better to sit back and not do anything if you can't help everybody? If you see 10 people drowning, do you just save the one or two you can, or let them all die?