truth on hold

Your brainwashed into just viewing responses in isolation. How about these losers are more acutely aware of their own past failed provocations, alterior motives and atrocities, and the consequences? Germany's failed invastion of Russia The operation was driven by Adolf Hitler's ideological desire to conquer the Soviet territories as outlined in his 1925 manifesto Mein Kampf The German forces captured millions of Soviet prisoners who were not granted protections stipulated in the Geneva Conventions. Most of them never returned alive. Germany deliberately starved the prisoners to death as part of a "Hunger Plan" that aimed to reduce the population of Eastern Europe and then re-populate it with ethnic Germans. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa France's failed invasion of Russia The French Invasion of Russia, known in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 (Russian: Отечественная война 1812 года; Otechestvennaya Voyna 1812 Goda) and in France as the Russian Campaign (French: Campagne de Russie), began on 24 June 1812 when Napoleon's Grande Armée crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian army.[8] Napoleon hoped to compel Tsar Alexander I of Russia to cease trading with British merchants through proxies in an effort to pressure the United Kingdom to sue for peace.[9] The official political aim of the campaign was to liberate Poland from the threat of Russia. Napoleon named the campaign the Second Polish War to gain favor with the Poles and provide a political pretense for his actions.[10] The Grande Armée was a very large force, numbering 680,000 soldiers....His troops exhausted, with few rations, no winter clothing, and his remaining horses in poor condition, Napoleon was forced to retreat. He hoped to reach supplies at Smolensk and later at Vilnius. In the weeks that followed the Grande Armée starved and suffered from the onset of the Russian Winter. Lack of food and fodder for the horses, hypothermia from the bitter cold and persistent attacks upon isolated troops from Russian peasants and Cossacks led to great losses in men, and a general loss of discipline and cohesion in the army. When the remnants of Napoleon's army crossed the Berezina River in November, only 27,000 fit soldiers remained; the Grand Armée had lost some 380,000 men dead and 100,000 captured.[17] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_invasion_of_Russia

When was the last time travelling or palming was called ?

So who's going to seriously oppose them? Read the article a number of the people prefer them to the alternative. And our only effective potential allies against them....Iran, Assad, Hoothis, HeZbollah....we treat as the enemy.

How about Man o' War?

I don't think the Khans had any kind of relationship with all but a handful. They were just paraded thru at times of peak fertility for perhaps their one and only encounter

Interesting observation. Saddam was secularist but perhaps they are Sharia Law adherents who were part of his party. Other than where he may be from in iraq and may have gone to school, not much is known about its leader http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Bakr_al-Baghdadi

It's the organization part that's threatening, not just in a militaristic sense ....we've seen that before...its the establishment of legal and commercial frameworks. The order is why people are choosing them over the non-isil "rebels". Have to wonder how isil acquired this sophistication.

Wow....this group will be tough to beat. -------- As Isil works to establish its empire, the jihadists have become fastidious bureaucrats: imposing taxes, paying fixed salaries and imposing trading standards laws in a bid to create a healthy economy that will sustain their autocratic rule. Yet despite brutal punishments for those who break the laws, many Syrian businessmen see Isil as the only option when compared to the anarchy that prevails in areas controlled by other rebels, including Western-backed groups. The model is being applied across Isil territory in Syria, and to such a degree that businesses are now choosing to move their industry into Isil areas. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/11657918/Why-business-is-booming-under-Islamic-State-one-year-on.html?WT.mc_id=e_DM23363&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Wor_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Wor_New_2015_06_08&utm_campaign=DM23363

It's extraordunary the way the western media has gotten behind the theme that Putin is a madman bent on reuniting large swaths of soviet/russian territory rather than a rational actor responding to what any country would see as an existential border threat. Even journals like Psychology Today have gotten into the act with a hack job that, you guessed it, compares him to hitler ____________ The Danger That Lurks Inside Vladimir Putin's Brain He wrote in his biography (link is external): I consider it to be my sacred duty to unify the people of Russia, to rally citizens around clear aims and tasks, and to remember every day and every minute that we have one Motherland, one people and one future. There is something about the metre and cadence of that One Motherland, one people, one future which sends shivers down my spine. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-winner-effect/201403/the-danger-lurks-inside-vladimir-putins-brain ______________ Seriously what leader doesn't talk like that, about uniting people? How about "US exceptionalism" we keep hearing from politicians at home? And policy matter, if we really thought Putin had this agenda, the dumbest thing to do would be to give him pretext to act by destabliziing Ukraine. By analogy, what would US response be to a Russian led uprising in Mexico and Canada to thwart NAFTA?

Maybe they should just reserve weekly hearings with goodell for current and former pats players.

Just three weeks ago, Spikes signed a one-year, $1.1 million contract with the four-time Super Bowl champs. Only his $25,000 signing bonus is guaranteed should the club cut him. http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2015/06/police_want_to_know_if_brandon_spikes_abandoned_car_linked_to

I read only $25k sign on was guaranteed. After tax that won't even cover his legal bills

Hate to hear that. Seemed like a cool guy and just landed on his feet again

Ukraine wasn't part of a "Putin" strategy. It was existential for them not letting a border country with longstanding ties fall to a US/EU coalition for economic reasons, and NATO for military reasons. Russia's reaction was wholly predictable. The shocker would have been if they stood by and did nothing.

Im afraid the injury to Irving has caused Cavs to release Lebron "Kraken" James

matt the mercilous

walt coleman officiating?

carbon copy of game 1

Don't think they cared one way or they other about the EU, as reflected in that twit nuland's comments. State dept had their own agenda and they wanted to pursue. IMO is not a matter of being screw ups, they can go for the risky strategy since theyre not the ones to suffer the consequences of failure. Nuland still has same position at state dept as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs

It would be insane for US to take part in provoking an uprising to unseat a democratically leader on Russia's border, and thinking it would trigger no response. But you know what....we still did it!

I dont know if the gender angle explains things as he asserts, but Nader's criticism of Hillary is spot on otherwise: “I think Hillary is not the Hillary of when she was 30 years old. She made peace with the power structure and she is a deep corporatist and a deep militarist. One can almost forgive the corporatism. She moved to New York with Bill because that’s where the power is and Wall Street but her militarism is absolutely shocking,” “She almost singlehandedly did the Libyan war. The Defense Department was against it, [secretary Robert] Gates, and she persuaded the White House that it was an easy topple without knowing that in a tribal society with nothing to replace it you would have a civil war, sectarian killings spilling into Africa, weapons everywhere, Mali, central Africa and she’s being accused of Benghazi – the big thing is the huge amount of geography that has been destabilized because of the Libyan overthrow,” he added. http://pjmedia.com/blog/nader-hillary-tried-to-overcompensate-for-gender-with-shocking-militarism/

I thought it wasn't established who the driver was

You expect a straight answer from him? He's the same butt clown who said lives lost and dollars spent weren't good criteria to assess foreign policy. Apparently he's into to "good practises that produce bad results" lol