truth on hold

I've said repratedly the US should do what's in its own interests, and stop supporting false allies. You're a dumbass beyond compare

Why do you keep asking the same stupid question? (Or does just your stupidity explain it?) US already enables the occupying power politically, financially, and militarily.

Last thing Netanyahu wants is a peace partner...cuz that would mean you know, peace? That's why he went bat sh#t when Hamas was being diluted into Fatah last year. And BTW Palestinians are being occupied, the have a right of defense.

Weapons of Fat Destruction

"Americans are now the world's third-heaviest people, behind only the Pacific island nations of Tonga and Micronesia" How is it we're behind these tiny island nations? What happened to American exceptionalism?

Four foreigners, including two Canadians, pleaded guilty ‎in a Malaysian court on Friday to obscene behaviour after they were arrested for stripping naked at the top of a mountain locals considered sacred. The May 30 incident at Mount Kinabalu, in the Malaysian state of Sabah, had created an international furor. The four were allegedly part of a larger group who broke away from guides on a trip to Mount Kinabalu and posed naked. The incident occurred just days before an earthquake killed 18 climbers on the mountain. The Malay Mail said the court was told the group of 10 had challenged each other to see who could remain naked the longest in the cold. They ignored a plea by their mountain guide not to strip, it said. The case has stirred controversy in the southeast Asian country, where many residents believe Mount Kinabalu holds the spirits of their ancestors. Sabah Deputy Chief Minister Joseph Pairin Kitingan has blamed the tragedy on the foreigners for showing “disrespect to the sacred mountain” by posing naked at the peak. He has said a special ritual will be conducted to “appease the mountain spirit.” http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canadian-in-malaysian-nudity-case-plead-guilty-reports/article24935540/

Pats should hire him

Lets be more realistic and call it what it is: anything she gets involved in is Hillary for Hillary, she's too self centered to consider the implications for the country. At least with a Rubio if he uses the banner "Rubio for America", I more or less agree thats his intention, even if I disagree with most of his positions. But with no credible primary challenger, and the Repubes demonizing themselves with unpopular positions, Im afraid this is a cake walk. She'll win based on soft considerations like being the first woman, and on the lesser of 2 evils versus Repube nominee.

If the past is any guide, with our support Israel will degrade Hamas ability to fight ISIS since they view Hamas as the bigger threat to its continued occupation. Then when the inevitable happens and the situation becomes unstable, there'll be an outcry for US boots on the ground to fight ISIS. This is exactly what happened in neighboring Syria where they (and others)/degraded Assad's ability to fight ISIS and other extremists, and now of course they all turn their backs and leave it to US to clean up the mess.

Lee, who was traded to the Browns last week after 11 seasons with the San Francisco 49ers, will wear No. 8 in Cleveland as a tribute to his daughter Madelyn, who lived just eight days in January before she died from complications after her birth. "I think sometimes, not necessarily by me and my wife, her life can get overlooked. She was here, she was a person but nobody got to meet her, nobody got to see her," Lee said, according to the team's website. "She was really alive and really a person. It's a way to honor her and kind of just give her some glory she deserves." http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/13057881/cleveland-browns-punter-andy-lee-wear-no-8-honor-late-child

Analysis from a senior advisor to U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan: Assad has been written off before, only to survive those who predicted his demise. But given the balance of forces and the way in which the tide of battle is turning, it is hard to see how his regime and army can long resist eventual collapse. Arrayed against him are not only the Nusra Front and ISIS, which are attracting recruits from abroad, but also Turks, Saudis and Gulf Arabs, who have been clandestinely aiding Sunni rebels we regard as terrorists. Though the Turks have a half-million-man army, 3,000 tanks, 1,000 military aircraft, and are 60 miles from the ISIS capital of Raqqa in Syria, our NATO ally refuses to move. Turkey’s president sees Assad as an ally of Iran. The Israelis, too, see Assad as an ally of Iran and a greater enemy than an ISIS or Nusra Front with no army to threaten Israel. They have been aiding Syrian rebels on the Golan. Israeli ambassador Michael Oren said in 2013, "We always preferred the bad guys who weren’t backed by Iran to the bad guys who were backed by Iran." Fine, but the "bad guys" Ambassador Oren prefers have on their hands the blood of 3,000 Americans. Interviewed by CBS News, Gen. David Petraeus said the United States is "probably losing" the war to ISIS, and we need more U.S. troops in Iraq or we run "the risk of losing the fight." Now consider what the general is saying: America should send her best and bravest back into Iraq to defeat ISIS, while Turkey, the Saudis, the Gulf Arabs and Israel are helping bring about the defeat of a Syrian army that has been battling ISIS for years. Our "friends" in the Middle East have no problem with us fighting and dying to drive ISIS out of Iraq, while they try to bring about the fall of Assad in Syria, which would constitute a triumph for ISIS. Our "friends" don’t mind this happening because it would be a defeat for Iran and the Shiite Crescent, their enemies, even if it meant a victory for ISIS and al-Qaida, our enemies. It is time we stopped letting other nations pick the enemies for us to fight. And as our "friends" are looking out for themselves first, last, and always, let us Americans begin to do the same. http://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2015/06/04/is-isis-coming-to-damascus/

GS got their legs back tonight, I don't see how hurt plodders like Cavs can regain momentum and slow them down again

He's worth more in the FA market than we can pay

Bottom line: we can't afford him

Matthis + Incognito = a whole new line from last year, that several backs could run behind. Too bad we spent our powder on McCoy

There is some resemblance.

Paranoid ramblings of a dopey kook. Making up ghosts to justify hostile, aggressive behavior. Actually who that compares most to are Islamic fanatics.

good grief are you dense, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, etc etc ... are the countries our alleged "allies" ensnare us in destablizing. Remedy pretty simple: base US policy on US interests, not foreign countries. Occupation of Palestine, Saudi Wahabism defeat of Iranian Shi'ites, etc etc ... are not in our interests. What's your idea, more of the same so we can more Syria's, Iraq's, Libyas, Ukraine's on our hands? How's that working out?

Bill Clinton will stop paid speeches if Hillary is President http://m.nydailynews.com/news/politics/bill-clinton-stop-paid-speeches-hillary-president-article-1.2253989

Lol you dufus. What do you think gave rise to ISiS? Our pig headed policy of intervening and destabliziing the countries our "allies" tell us to like syria and iraq!

Gun questions answered repeatedly in gun thread....but like I said dufus like you only has one explanation and remedy. As for oil, how much oil do we buy from Israel? Less than 10% of our imports are from Saudis. You really think we couldn't find someone else willing to sell it to us? Like maybe buy a little more from the sellers of the other 90%+? It is a commodity after all, you dufus

Hillary is horrible. Most of the criticisms of her from dem challengers are spot on. If dem primary voters are being rational and objective, or if repubes could field a credible candidate , she'd lose in a landslide. I'm afraid neither one of those things will happen

Only to a dufus who thinks the answer to failed policies is an expansion of them. Like your answer to excessive gun violence in America is more guns. No, how about this as a novel approach: America looks out for its own interests and stops supporting false allies?

You look constipated

The populices of those countries suffering devastating defeats often turn on their own leaders and policies, especially when the consequences are on their own soil (I.e. Japan blaming itself for America's nuclear response). Also in europe and Asia where most countries have been around a lot longer than ours, they view current events in much longer historical context