They aren't practically useful in combat, though. We already have an Army organization fully optimized to consoom fodder in the event of a Great Power war, yet the idea of women being drafted is novel. Of course subjecting them to equal inconvenience based on the idea of equality is interesting, maybe they could best serve the state by having children. Lol. Giving them equal responsibility pushes society further in the wrong direction, which is fine if you want to watch its foundation buckle, but in practical lowbrow terms, we should should simply exchange their rights back for the dignity they traded in to get rights in the first place.
Most of the old Bushite neocons (or their fathers), the Kristols (Irving), the Podhoertzes (Norman), etc., were old Democrats of the Henry "Scoop" Jackson variety -- socially liberal, anti-communist, interventionist, learned to love tax cuts, and so forth. After the end of the Cold War, the interventionist impulses birthed the Project for the New American Century, and off the 20-aughts went, alas.
I'd say treat it the same as a service or wire fee paid at the time of the transfer. If people want to send money abroad, fine, but there should be a convenience fee associated with it just like many other financial transactions.
I feel the impeachment move by Thanadar was little more than an effort to score points with his constituents and the party at large for doing something - even if just symbolic and pointless - to further the whole "Trump Bad!" mantra.
His seat was held by a black person for quite some time and many constituents and party rivals are absolutely pissed that he took that seat away from a black politician and voters. The voting base in that area is so blue a dead fish would win easily if it appeared on the ballot with a (D) beside it. It's also why Thanedar had a shoo-in victory when his Democratic primary opponents either failed to get enough signatures or ended up disqualified from the ballot. There's already opposition lining up against him for the midterms because enough people want a black person back in that seat desperately.
There is plenty to criticize Trump about in terms of what he has or hasn't accomplished so far. Yet, they've double, triple, quadruple, and quintupled down on the name calling even though it just isn't as effective any more.
In her mind, she probably feels she did the right thing keeping a wanted illegal out of the hands of ICE. As others have stated, this is ironic since this is the same group whose talking points include, "Nobody is above the law," and demands accountability when people in the legal system do wrong.
Even people who dislike Trump or don't think highly of RFK have agreed that RFK's take on banning those artificial coloring and his desire to get people healthier are good things without regard to partisan politics.
As am I. The fact Iran is even willing to sit down at the table is a good first step. Time will tell if this results in any sort of deal.
What would you classify the 80s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s as?
It’s just IN the shit we buy from them. They don’t own our ports, yet port gantry cranes had the same shit.
Some of the Negro (ergo racist) cable news (non)contributors were making monkey noises about the Afrikaans and apartheid (even though some of the 59 weren't even born before apartheid was dismantled), coming awfully close to saying that they should have to stay in SA and suffer every evil coming for them to pay for the acts of their ancestors.
He's been due for one ever since he organized the powwow between NK and SK.
Too many American politicians try too hard to appeal to their base that it actively fucks with diplomacy. People give Trump so much shit for being polite when talking about Putin or Xi or giving our "allies" shit for not pulling their weight. But Trump's approach is actually effective because he actually needs to negotiate with Russia and China and offending their leaders will just start things on the wrong foot, and our allies aren't going to stop taking advantage of us unless we put our foot down. Contrast this with how Biden did wverything to appeal to his base and the MSM, endlessly shit talked Putin and Xi, did nothing to help improve American standing in the world, gave Ukraine everything and the moon, Zelensky was so ungrateful he threw a shitfit at Trump because he cut him off and wanted a way to recoup loses.
The original 1979 sanctions on Syria were over them occupying parts (and eventually, all) of Lebanon - initially supported by the Arab League and some Lebanese themselves who thought the SAA could end the Lebanese Civil War in its early stages, but astonishingly it turned out the Syrian ultranationalist Assad Sr. was actually planning on annexing Lebanon to realize his ambitions of Greater Syria - and also propping up terrorist militias aligned with them, including Hezbollah. In the long run, the Assads and their allies were directly responsible for crippling the Lebanese Christians (another Syrian agent, a member of the pro-Greater Syria ultranationalist and Lebanese-annexationist 'Syrian Social Nationalist Party', murdered Bachir Gemayel, who was the single most brutal but also the most effective Christian leader in that war, then beat the shit out of the disorganized Christian factions for the next couple decades) and putting Hezbollah in ascendancy over Lebanon. That's one of the reasons I could never get fully onboard with the 'multipolar' crowd which had been among Assad Jr.'s biggest online cheerleaders. The other (even tougher) sanctions piled up over more recent years, especially after the civil war got going of course.
This is what enraged me about Gadaffi. Yeah he was funding terrorism here and there, but ever since he's been toppled, Libya has no central government and is no closer to freedom or democracy that the pozzed globohomo celebrates so much. Country hasn't recovered since 2011. Democracy cannot be forced on the population no matter how much you cheer it.
The best of times, the worst of times.
Trump has made clear the US is done being the moral arbiter of the world. Syria has had a new dawn. It's their time to shine if they choose. What matters is if they can live with their neighbors. Considering that Saudi Aribia was the one to ask for the arrangement, I think they can with some.
Even though I'm ambivalent on the man at best, it is apalling how much sway he holds globally. Bibi was willing to call a ceasefire just to get into Trump's good graces.
They chose to slaughter Christians just like they did in NYC, Boston, Paris, London, Madrid and all over the world. Saudi Arabia bankrolled Al Qaeda and ISIS as stated very plainly in Hillary's emails. The vast majority of 9/11 terrorists were Saudis.
lebanese govt is actively fighting against hezbollah now and so is HTS. It's a weird time
