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Good morning
Hi there, Fred! Tuesday February 11th, 2020 

mansfield5o

Hacktivists and anti-secrecy groups like Anonymous and WikiLeaks 'pose as
big a threat to the US as traditional espionage from ISIS, Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah', government report reveals
Barr announces sweeping new sanctions, 'significant
escalation' against left-wing sanctuary cities
French operations in Mali put 30 militants ‘out
of action,’ as Barkhane builds Sahel Coalition coordination
For the first time in months, Egyptian
security delegation visits the Gaza Strip

Firebrand Arab Israeli cleric sentenced
to 28 months for inciting terrorism
Diplomats say Abbas, lacking votes,
pulls request for UN vote against Trump plan
Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2020 13:12 || Comments || Link || [336122 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Whaaaaaaa?
Posted by: Frank G || 02/11/2020 13:43 Comments || Top||

#2  I like it. The famous Loren/Mansfield picture. Usually shown from another angle though.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 02/11/2020 14:20 Comments || Top||

#3  The famous 'side eye' photo.
Photo
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 02/11/2020 14:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Good morning to you, too! I'll have two eggs, sunny side up, thanks.
Posted by: Lex || 02/11/2020 15:28 Comments || Top||

#5  They are real!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/11/2020 15:33 Comments || Top||

#6  And thanks to American ingenuity any woman or man in a dress can have a pair. Isn't America great!

OK, I'll go to my room now.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/11/2020 16:37 Comments || Top||

#7  Trying a new, more efficient Bloid process, Fred?
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/11/2020 17:00 Comments || Top||

#8  Nice, er, er format.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/11/2020 17:10 Comments || Top||

#9  I've seen that picture - maybe in Playboy 100 years or so ago.
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/11/2020 18:29 Comments || Top||

#10  Late Blond Bombshell Jayne Mansfield & Italy's Beauty Actress At That Time Zone Was Late 1950's & Early 1960's !!
Posted by: Ho Chi Darling of the Giants5137 || 02/11/2020 19:45 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
2 Arkansas police officers wounded in Walmart shooting; suspect shot

Related: Accused Walmart shooter struggled to find work, no violent history in St. Francis County

Posted by: Skidmark || 02/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336086 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good. The best way to stop such attacks.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/11/2020 2:48 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Prominent Taliban leader, in charge of high-tech weapons killed in an airstrike
[KhaamaPress] An Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
killed a prominent Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
leader who was in charge of high-tech weapons of the group in northern Balkh province.

The Ministry of Defense in a statement said a precision airstrike killed Mohammad Gul alias Abu Bakar in Chemtal district of Balkh province at around 5:30 pm local time on Sunday.

The statement further added that the security forces conducted the airstrike in Dilbar Village of Chemtal district.

According to Ministry of Defense Gul Mohammad was a prominent Taliban leader who was in charge of high-tech weapons including thermal-scoped rifles and night vision-equipped snipers.

The Taliban group has not commented regarding the killing of Gul Mohammad so far.

Balkh was among the relatively peaceful provinces in North of Afghanistan but the security situation has tanked in some of its remote districts during the recent years as Talibs attempt to expand their foothold in this key northern province.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336109 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


29 Taliban militants killed, detained in airstrikes and Special Forces raids
[KhaamaPress] A series of Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s killed at least 21 Talibs in three provinces of Afghanistan in the past 24 hours, the military official said.

The officials further added that the Afghan Special Forces
...established in 2007 with the intent of taking one conventional infantry kandak (battalion) from each of the regional ANA corps, giving them special training and equipment, and reorganizing based on the U.S. Army Rangers. Each battalion is assigned to one of the six regional corps. The commandos comprise 7% of the Afghan National Security Forces but conduct 70% to 80% of the fighting...
also arrested 8 Talibs in three provinces during the same period.

According to officials, the security forces conducted three separate airstrikes in Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, Chawkai district of Kunar and Nadir Shah Kot district of Kunar which killed 21 murderous Moslems.

The Special Forces arrested 8 Talibs during the operations in Sabari district of Khost, Muhammad Agha district of Pashtun-infested Logar and Dishu district of Helmand, the officials said.

The military officials also added that the Special Forces also destroyed a small cache of weapons during the raid in Sabari district of Khost.

The Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
group has not commented regarding the airstrikes and Special Forces raids so far.

Seven Taliban killed & three others wounded during a joint clearance operation carried out by ANDSF in Nehr Saraj district of Helmand

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Posted by: trailing wife || 02/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336090 views] Top|| File under:


School set on fire in Bodala area of #Takhar capital Taloqan has no relation with the Mujahidin of IEA
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336091 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
Al-Shabaab Militants Burn Construction Vehicles In Lamu
[RADIOSHABELLE] Attackers believed to be al-Shabaab
...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them...
bully boyz on Sunday burned two construction vehicles in an attack near H Young & Co’s camp at Milihoi in Lamu County.

H Young was awarded the tender for construction of the 135-kilometre Lamu-Garsen road.

Lamu County Commissioner Irungu Macharia said the attackers hurled explosives at the vehicles ‐ the company’s excavator and a lorry ferrying cement ‐ causing explosions in the incident at about 12.30 pm.

The excavator controller and lorry driver jumped out of the vehicles and escaped unhurt.

They hid in the bushes until security agents came to their rescue.

HEAVILY ARMED
Mr Macharia said about four heavily armed suspected hard boyz carried out the ambush and then fled into a nearby forest.

No casualties were reported since the excavator had one controller while the lorry had just the driver," he said.

The incident stopped transport on the route for about an hour as Kenya Defence forces (KDF) soldiers and police combed the area.

The commissioner assured security on the road, saying patrols had been intensified across the county.

"Enough security agencies, including the KDF and police, have been deployed to the area to pursue the attackers," he said.

"There is no cause for alarm as security has been optimised."

Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336073 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Africa North
French operations in Mali put 30 militants ‘out of action,’ as Barkhane builds Sahel Coalition coordination
Hattip badanov, with thanks.
[TheDefensePost] Barkhane commando operations and Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s targeted Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
and al-Qaeda linked fighters in the tri-border area.

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/11/2020 02:36 || Comments || Link || [336098 views] Top|| File under:


Militia commander Ashraf Mami sells weapons the GNA received from Turkey and flees to Ukraine
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336089 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  A true humanitarian. And, potentially, good fit for Ukraine.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/11/2020 5:15 Comments || Top||

#2  gettin out while the gettin is good
Posted by: Chris || 02/11/2020 11:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Ukraine, land of the fleece, home of the braying
Posted by: Lex || 02/11/2020 11:38 Comments || Top||


Sirte: General Criminal Investigation Force arrested a group of 8 from the GNA #militias of #Misrata preparing for terrorist bombings inside the city.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336086 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Libyan police force have captured a #terrorist cell planing to plant explosives around the city of #Benghazi
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336083 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Islamist Syrian Mercenaries in Libya Make a Break for Italy
[INVESTIGATIVEJOURNAL.ORG] A Libyan National Army (LNA) source says that 17 Syrian mercenaries will attempt to illegally travel to Italia from al-Zawiya, a major human trafficking hub west of Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
, Libya. The source says that the gunnies have paid a smuggler for the boat trip across the Mediterranean and are set to travel this Thursday.

The men are believed to be from the Ahrar al-Sharqiya faction of the Ottoman Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336089 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  "I feel like getting a plate of pasta"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/11/2020 5:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Fine day for a European invasion.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/11/2020 11:30 Comments || Top||


LNA forces advancing south of Tajora and Abuslim
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336071 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


LNA airstrike zaps head of Misrata militia
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336074 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Britain
Man plotted Madame Tussauds attack after 2018 terror acquittal
[THEGUARDIAN] A man acquitted of terrorism in 2018 after he was arrested with a metre-long samurai sword outside Buckingham Palace has been convicted of planning an attack at tourist hotspots in London.

He also bragged to them about deceiving the jury in 2018, seeming particularly proud of the ruse of shaving off his beard before going to court. He said that his intention had been to “whack” a soldier at the palace.
Mohiussunnath Chowdhury, 28, from Luton, was found guilty of terrorism offences on Monday after the jury at Woolwich crown court heard he planned to kill members of the public at busy London locations including Madame Tussauds, the Pride parade and on an open-top tour bus.

In December 2018, Chowdhury was acquitted by an Old Bailey jury in relation to the 2017 attack outside the Queen’s London residence.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336106 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  "Chowdhury" sounds more Hindu than mooslimb. Convert?
Posted by: Lex || 02/11/2020 19:44 Comments || Top||

#2  common Pak nym
Posted by: Frank G || 02/11/2020 19:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Ok
Posted by: Lex || 02/11/2020 21:13 Comments || Top||

#4  As in "Andy".

Also...

A chicken shop driver in Luton
Aspired to Islamic disputin':
"I'll bring you a plate,
But would rather debate,
Mate. I'll trade you a pullet
For two rounds of bullet!
Oi? Somethin' for stickin'?
Um... how 'bout a chicken?"
How lonely he'd get
If it weren't for the Met!
Now he's back at the nick,
If for only a tick,
As the brutal old bill puts the boot in.
Posted by: Guillibaldo and Tenille4557 || 02/11/2020 23:51 Comments || Top||


Europe
Crisis in Lesbos as more refugees arrive
[TheGuardian] Greek island a ’powder keg ready to explode’ as boat landings lead to tensions with local people.

Greek authorities are struggling to cope with rising tension on islands where pressure from a new influx of refugees and migrants colonists has reached a critical point.

Friction is growing between local people and asylum seekers landing in boats from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
. Last week the region’s most bigwig likened the situation on Lesbos to a "powder keg ready to explode". Kostas Moutzouris, governor of the north Aegean, said: "It’s crucial that a state of emergency is called."

More than 42,000 men, women and kiddies are estimated to be on Lesbos, Samos, Chios, Leros and Kos. Unable to leave because of a containment policy determined by the EU, they are forced to remain on the islands until their asylum requests are processed by a system both understaffed and overstretched.

Aid groups have repeatedly called for the islands to be evacuated. On Friday an estimated 20,000 refugees were on Lesbos, forced to endure the grim reality of Moria, a camp designed to host 3,000 at most.

"They are living in squalid, medieval-like conditions ... with barely any access to basic services, including clean and hot water, electricity, sanitation and healthcare," said Sophie McCann, Médecins Sans Frontières’ advocacy officer. "On a daily basis our medical teams are treating the consequential deterioration of health and wellbeing."

But she added that the local people had also been given short shrift. "The Lesbos community has been abandoned by its own government for almost five years to deal with the consequences of a failed reception system. Like the refugee community, it is tired."

As anti-immigrant sentiment has surged, vigilante groups believed to be infiltrated by supporters of the far-right Golden Dawn party have surfaced. On Friday seven men armed with wooden clubs were arrested in the hilltop village of Moria on suspicion of being members of a gang apparently linked to Golden Dawn.

"People have seen their properties destroyed, their sheep and goats have been slaughtered, their homes broken into," said Nikos Trakellis, a community leader. "A few years back, when there were 5,000 on the island, things seemed bad enough. Now there’s a sense that the situation has really got out of hand."

NGOs have also been targeted. In recent weeks cars have been vandalised. Foreigners perceived to be helping refugees have spoken of intimidation. Ciaran Carney, a volunteer filmmaker teaching refugees on the island, said: "There was a week when no one [in the NGOs] wanted to leave their flats. It definitely feels like it could explode and that no one knows what will come next."
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336122 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  "lesbos" ... "powder keg ready to explode"... just what kind of site is this, anyway?
Posted by: Lex || 02/11/2020 2:10 Comments || Top||

#2  ....Ranthub?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/11/2020 7:16 Comments || Top||

#3  "Refugees" Economic gimmigrants
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/11/2020 16:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Refugees don't like lesbos?
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 02/11/2020 19:16 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ sickos. No wonder they're fleeing.
Posted by: Lex || 02/11/2020 19:25 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Iraq's KRG sentences PKK terrorists who killed Turkish diplomat to death
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) handed out the death sentence to the PKK terrorists who killed Turkish diplomat Osman Köse in the Iraqi autonomous region's capital Irbil in July 2019, the local news outlet Rudaw reported late Monday.

"The 2nd Criminal Court in Irbil has charged six people in connection with the killing of an employee of the Turkish Consulate and two other citizens at the Huqqabaz Restaurant in Irbil. Two of them were sentenced to death," the website said in a piece.

According to Rudaw, four other defendants were sentenced to one year in prison each.

According to the restaurant's owner, the attacker -- in plain clothes and carrying two guns -- targeted the Turkish diplomats dining in the restaurant.

The attack occurred at the Irbil branch of Huqqabaz, a popular restaurant in an upscale and high-security area only a five-minute drive from the Turkish Consulate on the airport road.

Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336067 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Security forces attack and arrest a number of school students demonstrating in #Maysan Governorate
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336070 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Huge number of protesters flock to the sit-in staged in Al-Haboubi Sqaure in #Nasiriya
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336073 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


#Iraqi students of #Baghdad University stage a peaceful march towards #TahrirSquare
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336067 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


#Militants targeted a convoy carrying food supplies south of #Baghdad using an explosive device
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Lebanese pro-Iranian TV channel al-Mayadeen reported that the explosion targeted a convoy carrying military equipment to a base hosting U.S. forces south of the capital. The channel said there was damage to one vehicle but no casualties.
A Times of Israel article adds:
The reports say the earth-shattering kaboom targeted military vehicles in the area of Yusufiyah near the Iraqi capital, amid tensions between the US and Iran.
Another Times of Israel article adds:
The blast, likely from an improvised bomb (IED), targeted a convoy of civilian vehicles that were carrying the American soldiers.
Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336089 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


One protester was killed in #Iraq's southern city of #Nasiriyah after university security guards opened fire
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336084 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Firebrand Arab Israeli cleric sentenced to 28 months for inciting terrorism
[IsraelTimes] Raed Salah,
... alternately Raed Saleh, he fancies the title "Sheikh of Al Aqsa" as suitable for the head of the outlawed Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement, the militant arm of the Israeli branch of the Muslim Brotherhood based in Umm al-Fahm in the Galilee. The Southern Branch went in for Israeli politics as part of the Obama-era Arab Joint List project, though their goals are the same. Sheikh Saleh’s role is to cycle in and out of Israeli prisons for cause — perhaps now would be a good time for Israel to change the pattern...
convicted in November over a series of expressions of support for terrorism, including speech praising Temple Mount button men, says claims against him are ’all lies’
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/11/2020 02:33 || Comments || Link || [336134 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turkey says it hit 115 Syrian targets after attacks on soldiers
[Jpost] Ottoman Turkish forces struck dozens of Syrian government targets in northwestern Syria on Monday after five Ottoman Turkish soldiers were killed in an attack on a military base in Idlib province, the Ottoman Turkish defense ministry said.
"Let's you and him fight"
The base at the town of Taftanaz was attacked a week after eight Ottoman Turkish military personnel were killed by Syrian shelling in Idlib following The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
's deployment of thousands of troops to stem a Syrian government offensive in the rebel-held region.Hitting back after Monday's attack, in which five Ottoman Turkish solders were also maimed, Ottoman Turkish forces fired on 115 Syrian government targets and destroyed 101 of them, including three tanks, two mortar positions and one helicopter, the defense ministry said in a later statement.

The incidents are among the most serious confrontations between Ottoman Turkish and Syrian troops in nearly nine years of conflict in Syria, and Turkey has said it will drive back Syrian forces if they do not pull back by the end of this month.

"Their attacks against our posts have made an operation necessary," Omer Celik, front man for President Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party, told news hounds in Ankara.

The rapid advance by Syrian government forces in Idlib, the last major enclave of gunnies opposed to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
, has driven nearly 700,000 people from their homes towards the closed-off Ottoman Turkish border.

Turkey, which already hosts 3.6 million Syrian refugees, says it cannot absorb any more and is ready for military action to halt the Syrian government advances.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/11/2020 01:21 || Comments || Link || [336074 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  fwiw, the first anniversary of Syria's "Dawn of Idlib" campaign (backed by Russian air power) is 30 April 2020

Turkish proxies, mercenaries, agents and soldiers have been involved in this since about August 2019
Posted by: lord garth || 02/11/2020 7:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Turkish forces fired on 115 Syrian government targets and destroyed 101 of them, including three tanks, two mortar positions and one helicopter, the defense ministry said in a later statement.

"And the other 95 destroyed targets were disguised as 'Sand'."
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 02/11/2020 15:32 Comments || Top||


Nearly 700,000 civilians have been displaced by a renewed #Russian-backed #Syrian government offensive against the rebel-held northwest
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336083 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


#Turkish officials have told a visiting #Russian delegation that attacks on #Turkish observation posts in northwestern #Syria must be stopped immediately, after 10 Turkish casualties
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
"Or what?"
The Times of Israel adds:
Five Ottoman Turkish soldiers have been killed by Syrian regime artillery fire in the northwestern province of Idlib, local media reports.

Another five soldiers were maimed in the assault and the military retaliated, the Ottoman Turkish NTV broadcaster says quoting the defense ministry. Last week, seven Ottoman Turkish soldiers and one civilian were killed in regime shelling in Idlib.
Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336068 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Russians bomb a joint Turkish & Jihadi column
[twitter]


Posted by: 3dc || 02/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336136 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  We should take Russia's side in this matter.

Why the fook are we allied with Turkey?
Posted by: Lex || 02/11/2020 0:53 Comments || Top||

#2  I keep thinking about that Russian fighter the Turks shot down a few years back. Not that anyone would hold a grudge...
Posted by: SteveS || 02/11/2020 1:40 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Russians are know for not bearing grudges.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/11/2020 4:11 Comments || Top||

#4  Ah yes. And they don't take a dump without a plan.
Posted by: European Conservative || 02/11/2020 4:14 Comments || Top||

#5  The Turks have not only been siding with Russia against us, the Russians have been using them as a big wedge to hammer NATO apart.

Which is why Turkey can be buying their antiaircraft missiles from Russia one second and in a shooting war with them the next. It suits Russia's needs and it suits their Agent Provocateur Vicious Retard Presnident's needs.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 02/11/2020 8:37 Comments || Top||

#6  I encourage both sides to fight each other.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/11/2020 9:05 Comments || Top||

#7  NATO isn't being "hammered apart by Russians". It's wilting because Europeans themselves can't see any value in it, and don't want to be a jumping-off point for endless wars in the Middle East. I can't say I disagree with them. Why are we still occupying them 75 years after WWII?

Reddit's /r/Europe users can't stop crapping on America and NATO. "Bleah... It just makes me sick. The money they invest in military in USA is just gross."
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 02/11/2020 11:11 Comments || Top||

#8  It suits Russia's needs and it suits their Agent Provocateur Vicious Retard Presnident's needs.

Seriously dumb comment.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 02/11/2020 11:12 Comments || Top||

#9  How many times do I have to tell you, Herb? We're not in Germany to keep the Russians out, we're in Germany to keep the Germans down.

As for the Turks, if they insist on venturing into places like Syria and Libya where they have no business, they are on their own. I hope they get what they deserve and the Russians will be just the folks to give it to them.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/11/2020 11:42 Comments || Top||

#10  Reddit's r/Europe users say...

"Kmart Reddit sucks, Ray Herb..."
Posted by: Lex || 02/11/2020 11:51 Comments || Top||

#11  The Germans don't want us there. Neither does anyone else in Europe. The bases don't defend Germany, they just enable fruitless, horribly expensive military adventures.

So what are we, tyrants now? We need to start terror bombing German cities Dresden-style if they don't fall in line?
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 02/11/2020 15:43 Comments || Top||

#12  The Russkies and Turks are traditional enemies. I've always wondered how long they can pretend to ally.
Posted by: Spot || 02/11/2020 15:56 Comments || Top||

#13  More pass-thru platitudes, erb?
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/11/2020 16:03 Comments || Top||

#14  Another meaningless comment that neither addressed nor refuted anything I said.

When you argue, you have to take what the other speaker said, and attempt to make the opposite case. Back up your arguments by citing sources! You'll notice I frequently do that. It's a good habit!
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 02/11/2020 17:01 Comments || Top||

#15  Please... please don't... NO! Anything but
the PYRAMID! Not THAT!!
Posted by: Lex || 02/11/2020 17:02 Comments || Top||

#16  The more you people keep making personal insults and silly jokes instead of making arguments, the more I'm going to keep pointing out the pyramid of debate.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 02/11/2020 17:46 Comments || Top||

#17 
Posted by: Frank G || 02/11/2020 18:31 Comments || Top||



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