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Quote: Originally Posted by Valka D'Ur My point in wanting to go back to see what actually happened is that we do not KNOW what knowledge got committed to writing, by either Christians or non-Christians. Absence of evidence does not equal evidence of absence, after all. Or do you not concede that the Roman bureaucracy had lots of civil servants (whether free or slave) who were responsible for record-keeping - including the sort of...

Mario, if your point is Kissinger shouldn't have received the Nobel Peace Prize, I agree... its really not an interesting point. No one in any administration that was involved in a war should have won it. This really is obvious. Where you are erring is saying Kissinger was responsible for so much death. They tried a "surge", it didn't work in this case. It could have potentially worked, but by that point, really, by...

Kinda sucks that I had to have a final while you guys posted what I was going to post anyway, I want moar PC

Quote: Originally Posted by kochman How have I done that? Can you "advise" me on that? @Lord Baal - Come on. Are you serious? Cerebus? You start your reply with name calling? That's when I stopped reading it. You've been actively misrepresenting the opinions of others since you entered this thread. And the only person I called a name was Dachs, not you, "big dog." Are you sure you didn't read...

I am saying he shared in the moral culpability, not that he was personally responsible. Nixon and Johnson were both more responsible than Kissinger, Laird, Clifford or McNamara. That doesn't suggest that the other men don't hold some responsibility for their actions any more than Hitler's power would absolve Adolf Eichman. Individuals hold the power to not participate in an immoral war, and a failure to do so, particularly by a...

No idea if this is true or just apocryphal, but I have heard that Port is the side that was normally to the dock (port).

Yes, I can't imagine how any of those periods could be called "liberal" in any sense, at least not compared to today. The so-called "five good emperors" executed people for not being pagan, while Justinian executed people for not being Christian, and they were all appallingly sexist.

That's what the Prussians want you to think.

Algerian pirates attacked French shipping in the Mediterranean. The French had to respond to these provocations, and rightly so, to protect their citizens from Algerian corsair attacks. French withdrawal from Algeria would pose a security risk to France. Soon Arabs would cross the Mediterranean and outnumber the French in their own country. The existance of France as a democratic French state is threatened. The Algerians forfeited any rights...

It should also be pointed out, that while Ike was spending 10% of US GDP on the military, US GDP was 50% of the world total. No way could that have been matched.