Greatest threat to world peace
Who do you think is the greatest threat to world peace?
The Dude
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I looked for the poll option "The Dude", but it wasn't there.
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people trying to establish world peace are the greatest threat to world peace as they invariably try to do it through violence and intollerance towards anyone who doesn't agree with their definition of "peace".
Muslim radicals are an example (in their mind "peace" means Muslim world domination).
Communists are another example (in their mind "peace" means communist world domination).
And as there's currently no world peace to speak of (and never has been...) the only threats are those to the establishment of world peace, in the definition of an absense of organised violence between population groups.
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Just my youthful/childish opinion:
"The greatest thread to world peace is the rapid destruction of the middle class!"
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As the poll shows, the USA is the greatest threat to Al-Quede's and Iran's idea of world peace. Nobody in the western world should want them to succeed at it, unless of course you want to treat women as dirt, stone them to death for disobedience. and ban them from all forms of politics and educational systems. And that is probably only the tip of the iceburg -- see the thousands of bodies in mass graves we found in Iraq. If that's your idea of word peace them I think we might need to talk so that we can blow you to bits.
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Sturm: what parts of my post do you disagree with? The "blow you to bits" part? Well that was sort of toung-in-cheek, not meant to be literal.
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I think that China will eventually flex its muscles and "blow you to bits"!
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As the poll shows, the USA is the greatest threat to Al-Quede's and Iran's idea of world peace. Nobody in the western world should want them to succeed at it, unless of course you want to treat women as dirt, stone them to death for disobedience. and ban them from all forms of politics and educational systems. And that is probably only the tip of the iceburg -- see the thousands of bodies in mass graves we found in Iraq. If that's your idea of word peace them I think we might need to talk so that we can blow you to bits.
The perception that the USA is the greatest thread to peace might be due to the fact that the USA has at least 1000 times the means to destroy the earth, more than any other country. It is also one very war like country!
Also, see the thousands of bodies in graves we have added in Iraq since 2003!
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Biggest threat = america
they stir things up too much like in the middle east, they crap up iraq/afganistan and be chummy with israel and they have the cheek to say iran/korea cant have nukes when they have loads
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The perception that the USA is the greatest thread to peace might be due to the fact that the USA has at least 1000 times the means to destroy the earth, more than any other country. It is also one very war like country!
Yes, us off and we'll bomb the shit out of you! Got to admit the last 50 years have not gone very well. But if we (USA) don't take any action then we're criticized for doing nothing.
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Yes, piss us off and we'll bomb the shit out of you! Got to admit the last 50 years have not gone very well. But if we (USA) don't take any action then we're criticized for doing nothing.
There is somewhat analogy to the Roman Empire, they got more and more powerful, more and more scattered, and their leaders got more and more feeble minded as time went on.
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That's where we have the advantage -- our President doesn't have a lifetime appointment and succession is not based on birth. But I can't say the same for many of our senitors (such as Ted Kennedy) who have been in the Senate for many many years.
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That's where we have the advantage -- our President doesn't have a lifetime appointment and succession is not based on birth. But I can't say the same for many of our senitors (such as Ted Kennedy) who have been in the Senage for many many years.
So senitor Ted Kennedy is in the Senage, very interesting! I can see a thread to world peace as we know it right there!
... and who the heck thinks that France is one thread to world peace? Maybe we have bad wine year or so? Frenchmen are lovers not warriors! Come foreward and I tickle you to pieces, or make your wife happy for a change!
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>>So senitor Ted Kennedy is in the Senage
Oops! typing error that I failed to catch :icon_redface:
... and who the heck thinks that France is one thread to world peace? Maybe we have bad wine year or so? Frenchmen are lovers not warriors! Come foreward and I tickle you to pieces!
Yea I agree. I like this site . Don't know how accurate it is, but doesn't show France in a good light except to say that its impossible for France to whip anyone ass.
Barbary Wars, middle ages-1830.
Pirates in North Africa continually harass European shipping in Meditteranean. France's solution: pay them to leave us alone. America's solution: kick their asses ("the Shores of Tripoli"). [America's] first overseas victories, won 1801-1815.
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Piracy on the high seas is still thread to international shipping! Somebody forgot to tell them about Tripoli (1801-1815).
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all of them.
I think so. Maybe post it on the internets.
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You got the muscles, show them! We have the best veterans of any country.
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The perception that the USA is the greatest thread to peace might be due to the fact that the USA has at least 1000 times the means to destroy the earth, more than any other country. It is also one very war like country!
Also, see the thousands of bodies in graves we have added in Iraq since 2003!
The US lacks that power. There's no nation on earth that has (or ever had) such power.
In fact all the weapons on the world can't even destroy the planet once, let alone a thousand times or more.
Even if you narrow it down to "just" destroying all human life, it's incorrect.
All the nuclear weapons in the world might have been (at their peak) enough to do that, and if they'd all worked as advertised and actually reached their targets there might have been an overkill factor of 3-4 times.
Still a far cry from a thousand times.
And one reason they built so many was because they knew full well that the majority would never reach their targets, so they deliberately designed for overkill.
And oh, the US does not actually have the largest arsenal.
That would be Russia (though the operational status of many of their weapons is questionable).
Maybe in numbers of actual warheads the US is ahead, but they're generally smaller warheads, enough so that the throwweight and yield of the total US arsenal is quite a bit smaller than that of the Russian arsenal.
And that's even if the Russian reports of numbers of weapons and warheads are accurate, which is highly doubtful. They may not know what they have themselves, and even if they do they are likely to not want some systems known to SALT and START treaty partners because those systems are in violation of those treaties).
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... and who the heck thinks that France is one thread to world peace? Maybe we have bad wine year or so? Frenchmen are lovers not warriors! Come foreward and I tickle you to pieces, or make your wife happy for a change!
France is a thread to world peace through their support for every terrorist and dictator out there.
That support is not because they actually like those people (I think) but as payoffs so they'll be left alone by them.
Just another way in which France always immediately surrenders when threatened.
For French history condensed: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/france.html
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