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2013-07-17 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Steve White 2013-07-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top

#1 That reminds me of Pierre Corneille, Le Cid:

Et le combat cessa faute de combattants

(And the combat ceased for lack of combatants.)

Posted by Willy 2013-07-17 03:30|| 2013-07-17 03:30|| Front Page Top

#2 For lack of a better term, we'll simply call it man-caused natural selection. Removal of parasitic DNA is key to our survival. Leave it [the process] alone.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-07-17 03:44|| 2013-07-17 03:44|| Front Page Top

#3 AND...need I mention it...they are all Moslems.

Posted by Threater Flusoper9823 2013-07-17 04:23|| 2013-07-17 04:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Except Threater Flusoper9823, of course, for the remaining Christians and other infidels still trapped in Syria, or who still consider it home and would rather not leave.

But that's a big part of the problem, too - so many Moslems are "infidels" to other activist Moslems. Shia, Alawites etc. are not "real" Moslems to the Sunnis with an attitude problem.

It wasn't too long ago that Catholics were looked down on, (like 1960), and if you go back far enough, there were Christians killing other Christians for not being the right "flavor" of Christianity. Interesting parallel, eh?

Posted by Bobby 2013-07-17 06:12|| 2013-07-17 06:12|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't recall ANY "Christians" Beheading anyone, and bystanders Cheering about it.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-07-17 06:49|| 2013-07-17 06:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Heretics were generally burned at the stake, though drawing and quartering did occur. And Charles I decapitation may have been accompanied by silence or moans, depending on your source. We don't do it any longer, but it wasn't that long ago.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2013-07-17 09:06|| 2013-07-17 09:06|| Front Page Top

#7 I don't recall ANY "Christians" Beheading anyone, and bystanders Cheering about it

Depends on how one classifies the Jacobins.

Posted by Pappy 2013-07-17 11:48|| 2013-07-17 11:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Jacobins remind me of today's 'progressives.'

Posted by Glenmore 2013-07-17 11:55|| 2013-07-17 11:55|| Front Page Top

#9 Rolls eyes... Look at these numbers... sounds like M.E. math to me. Carry on.

Posted by regular joe 2013-07-17 21:40|| 2013-07-17 21:40|| Front Page Top

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