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One point is very right in all this. If a state treats terrorists like another state, it imparts a permanent legitimacy to the terrorists. They must never be treated as a state. To defeat IS, it will take an immediate violence of action that disregards state taboos and sovereign considerations. We ...

The scientist is presented with a doctrinaire outline in a text book and will pass the course if his way of thinking has been properly molded by his professor in the course of his studies whose chief objective is conformance with the required doctrinaire. He passes a final examine that demonstrates...

your argument is based upon ignorance and presuppositions you chose to support your atheism, while mine is based upon the actual teaching of the text and the dictates of 1,500 years of history. Yes, except that my arguments would be held by devout (non-fundamentalist) theists too. I'm not arguing s...

Civilian casualty have been proven to be bad for any occupation. People will tend to put up with a lot from any government before they rebel. But when indiscriminate killing starts taking place it usually mean a bad deal for general population. It also means the occupy force will never control the ...

For the vast bulk of the Islamic world, their religion doesn't teach them to be good. They're good quite in spite of their religion. Moderate islam is a response to the modern world. The Koran does not teach moderate Islam, but radical Islam. You can say this is not precisely quantified only if you...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanov_affair Please be kind enough to explain how the "Bogdanov_affair" applies to the subject of this thread "LENR is real". It shows that peer-reviewed papers can be rubbish. This is taken by some LENR enthusiasts as proof that rubbish LENR papers so bad they are r...

We disagree in a few ways tyat will not change, since there is no precise quantification of the matter we argue. So just some small corrections of fact below. Since there are a very large number of good Muslims in the UK (and I'm sure the US is the same) who are seriously religious (generally more s...

I said the topic was contentious. Views differ as to whether the bombing was effective militarily. The issue is proportionality. What level of collateral damage is acceptable in warfare? At the time in the UK there would be arguments for and against Dresden, as there are now. I think in the later st...

I'm sort of thinking that the Lack of effective rule of law creates both poverty and bad people and subsequently political grievances. I have been attempting to point out strictly through an evolutionary perspective, the culture created by Christian doctrine has been demonstrably superior to that c...

LOL. We are not talking here about which religion is associated with countries that have conquered (militarily) which countries. Rome, UK, US, France have all done pretty well. As did Byzantium, Egypt,... The issue is do we find that lone non-Muslims in a Muslim country are treated worse than lone n...

The problem - and it is this throughout the Middle East - is that poverty breeds terrorism. Poverty is one component of terrorism. Islam is another. I don't hear about too much terrorism coming from the poor non-Islamic parts of the world. The foundational ideas of a culture have a great deal of im...

Nations usually do act in their own interests. But there are judgments to be made. The US's very expensive (3 bn per year) support for Israel is a political stance that is not obviously in long-term US interests, but politically impossible to change. I'm not making a strong argument that it is again...

The problem - and it is this throughout the Middle East - is that poverty breeds terrorism. . . . If you think that taking money away from Iraq will remove it from corrupt politicians rather than increasing the poverty - and therefore lack of willingness to cooperate finding non-violent solutions -...

Axil, As always I find it difficult to follow your argument. The "MIT paper collection" you posted has papers on three topics: (1) The GSI anomaly This is interesting because it measures fine details of decay from individual particles that would be invisible when averages over many particles as is t...

The problem - and it is this throughout the Middle East - is that poverty breeds terrorism. It also gives loathsome groups like ISIS, or bad but much less loathsome like Hammas, political advantage because they have money and logistics to provide aid on the ground. Malaki has to go for lots of reaso...