Facts are facts. Outside of a few isolated incidents with the Irish where has the majority of terrorism come from in the past several decades? Hell, outside a few isolated Irish incidents where has *ALL* terrorism come from?
Let me guess... from iraq? Oh, don't think so... why invade it then? Because of WMDs? nope...
Then answer me this simple question. Where's the pipeline in Afghanistan? Better yet why isn't America implicated in the oil-for-food scam if it were all about oil? People are so quick to make rash claims of "It's the oil, it's the oil!" but never remember that the past several times they claimed it it didn't pan out.
Riiight... when it's the others, it's for some oil scam, but when it's the USA, it's out of good heart. How could I not think about it?
And whose fault are those wars?
Easy, european powers in the 16 and 17th centuries which have drawn borders with a ruler without really caring about mixing ethnic genres within the same country. Go sue my great-great-great-great-great-grandfather.
Are you now implying that somehow the USA is inciting genocide on a mass scale?
Oh no. It's pretty much doing that itself already. War on iraq has caused tens of thousand of civilian lives. That's one order of magnitude more than 9/11 attacks. And of course it's also sent more than 1,000 of its own men in their own graves. Of course, it's forbidden to broadcast images of the coffins - free speech, you understand...
And after a bazillion dollars and countless lives spent, the situation is just getting worse.
No, he's not. He cut federal funding. Show me where it is our responsibility to subsidize the worlds condom use and I'll be right there with ya. Granted, he did it for the wrong reason but that's hardly "convincing people in foreign countries _not_ to use a condom." If people in foreign countries are so mindless as to care what the president of the US thinks they should do with their dangly bits they have far more problems than I imagine.
Oh you never know. These days some people call you a terrorist when you don't agree with their president. Or at best, a surrender-cheese-eating-monkey, when you're lucky :-)
(2) - The UN recently passed a resolution condemning terrorism. However buried in that resolution is a clause which states that *any* means may be used "by an oppressed people in a fight for their freedom". This means that the actions taken by Palastine's suicide bombers is valid in the eyes of the UN. This also means that the "insurgents" in Iraq (from Syria and Jordan if memory serves) kidnapping and beheading innocents is valid in the eyes of the UN because those people somehow are oppressed.
Maybe if you were in their shoes, had your innocents parents, children and siblings murdered by some foreign soldier, you would find it valid too?
Anyway, to go back to the original thread - what's wrong with the name "ubuntu"?