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	<title>Comments on: The Ten Worst Places to be a Christian</title>
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		<title>By: Randy Kaplan</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Randy Kaplan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2014 03:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#039;t wish to specifically apply some modern theory of warfare to wars of the past. I&#039;m not a believer, so neither am I trying to apply the morals and ethics of Judaism or Christianity to the present or future contemplated wars. I can think of lots of occasions when a country near victory stopped a war too soon, only making it necessary to fight again later, so I&#039;m not an advocate of laying down hard and fast rules about what war is and isn&#039;t supposed to be. But while I may not be able to define the distinctions precisely or even coherently, I do see both a qualitative and quantitative difference between war and genocide, and not only am I not comfortable with giving sanction to most genocide, I believe that if you think of genocide as nothing more than a species of warfare, you will only encourage genocide and give it moral imprimatur, I think its clear that you have more experience of war than I do, Drakken, so I am not trying to extend an argument with you or say that your views are outside the pale of decency or anything like that. But neither can I simply defer to your view on this one, either. I think, respectfully, that we&#039;re going to have to agree to disagree here, because I don&#039;t think it&#039;s that simple. But if you were the general and I were the politician with the purse strings, I imagine that I would almost always defer to your judgment and see my job as getting you the resources and support you needed for the kind of war you wanted to conduct.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t wish to specifically apply some modern theory of warfare to wars of the past. I&#8217;m not a believer, so neither am I trying to apply the morals and ethics of Judaism or Christianity to the present or future contemplated wars. I can think of lots of occasions when a country near victory stopped a war too soon, only making it necessary to fight again later, so I&#8217;m not an advocate of laying down hard and fast rules about what war is and isn&#8217;t supposed to be. But while I may not be able to define the distinctions precisely or even coherently, I do see both a qualitative and quantitative difference between war and genocide, and not only am I not comfortable with giving sanction to most genocide, I believe that if you think of genocide as nothing more than a species of warfare, you will only encourage genocide and give it moral imprimatur, I think its clear that you have more experience of war than I do, Drakken, so I am not trying to extend an argument with you or say that your views are outside the pale of decency or anything like that. But neither can I simply defer to your view on this one, either. I think, respectfully, that we&#8217;re going to have to agree to disagree here, because I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s that simple. But if you were the general and I were the politician with the purse strings, I imagine that I would almost always defer to your judgment and see my job as getting you the resources and support you needed for the kind of war you wanted to conduct.</p>
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		<title>By: Hass</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hass]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2014 03:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you get those figures from your local Mosquito?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did you get those figures from your local Mosquito?</p>
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		<title>By: Hass</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hass]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2014 02:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is estimated that Oz had @ 300k Aboriginals when European settlements started. Today that number is @ 275k.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is estimated that Oz had @ 300k Aboriginals when European settlements started. Today that number is @ 275k.</p>
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		<title>By: Drakken</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Drakken]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2014 02:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Genocide for intents and purposes is nothing more than warfare by another means, what do you think the Romans, Greeks, Vikings, people of Germania did to their enemies? They slaughtered them to the last man, enslaved their women and children, sorry, that is the brutal history of the world and other cultures of China, Indochina and the Indian subcontinent were worse. Trying to apply modern morals or ethics to pure unadultered warfare only weakens us, and strengthens our enemies, it is that simple.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Genocide for intents and purposes is nothing more than warfare by another means, what do you think the Romans, Greeks, Vikings, people of Germania did to their enemies? They slaughtered them to the last man, enslaved their women and children, sorry, that is the brutal history of the world and other cultures of China, Indochina and the Indian subcontinent were worse. Trying to apply modern morals or ethics to pure unadultered warfare only weakens us, and strengthens our enemies, it is that simple.</p>
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		<title>By: defcon 4</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[defcon 4]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe you should tell your theory to the victims&#039; familes in Bangladesh, E. Timor or the Sudan. Tell them that restitution wouldn&#039;t help to heal their pain.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe you should tell your theory to the victims&#8217; familes in Bangladesh, E. Timor or the Sudan. Tell them that restitution wouldn&#8217;t help to heal their pain.</p>
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		<title>By: defcon 4</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[defcon 4]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever thought that actions follow intent? Or have you ever thought at all?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you ever thought that actions follow intent? Or have you ever thought at all?</p>
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		<title>By: gray_man</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[gray_man]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes I have heard of HIV. If you are afraid of catching HIV, stop having sex with them.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes I have heard of HIV. If you are afraid of catching HIV, stop having sex with them.</p>
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		<title>By: Abduk</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Abduk]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 10:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Muslims living in the US are free to get out.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Muslims living in the US are free to get out.</p>
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		<title>By: Randy Kaplan</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/majid-rafizadeh/the-ten-worst-places-to-be-a-christian/comment-page-1/#comment-5355670</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Randy Kaplan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 03:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note to defcon4: I hadn&#039;t noticed before that while I am arguing with you and not necessarily being particularly polite, you are giving me likes on many of my posts, even though we obviously disagree on some stuff. So I wanted to say thanks and that you&#039;re a class act, and sorry if I crossed any lines.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Note to defcon4: I hadn&#8217;t noticed before that while I am arguing with you and not necessarily being particularly polite, you are giving me likes on many of my posts, even though we obviously disagree on some stuff. So I wanted to say thanks and that you&#8217;re a class act, and sorry if I crossed any lines.</p>
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		<title>By: Randy Kaplan</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Randy Kaplan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 03:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whoops, I left off Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Singapore, Botswana, Ghana, Sao Tome and Principe, Gabon, Kenya, Mali, Namibia, Tunisia, Zambia, South Africa, Kyrgyzstan, and Portugal.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whoops, I left off Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Singapore, Botswana, Ghana, Sao Tome and Principe, Gabon, Kenya, Mali, Namibia, Tunisia, Zambia, South Africa, Kyrgyzstan, and Portugal.</p>
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		<title>By: Randy Kaplan</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/majid-rafizadeh/the-ten-worst-places-to-be-a-christian/comment-page-1/#comment-5355657</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Randy Kaplan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I presume that Eyad, this rabid anti-American Muslim defines &quot;US invasion&quot; to mean when any US troops enter another country, even if invited. So don&#039;t forget Libya, Egypt, Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, France, Poland, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Albania, Greece, Italy, Monaco, Norway, San Marino, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Macedonia, Croatia, Serbia, Mexico, Canada, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Cuba, Ottoman Empire, Algeria, Brazil, Liberia, most of the former countries of West Africa with the anti-slave patrols from 1820 through the start of the Civil War, including the Gold Coast, the Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Sierra Leone, Senegal, the Gambia, etc., Spain, Indonesia, Peru, Nicaragua, Japan, China, Uruguay, Panama, Angola, Samoa, Chile, Ethiopia, Honduras, Guatemala, Turkey, Costa Rica, St. Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, Trinidad and Tobago, Iceland, Israel, Formosa (Taiwan), Lebanon, Thailand, Zaire, El Salvador, Chad, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Central African Republic, Gabon, Cambodia, Guinea-Bissau, Afghanistan, Timor-Leste, Australia, Nigeria, Georgia, Djibouti, Uganda, Jordan, New Zealand. . . and if you wish to give the US some credit for other Allied liberations of death camps accomplished by British and Soviet troops, you could add Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus,, Ukraine, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom to the list, too.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I presume that Eyad, this rabid anti-American Muslim defines &#8220;US invasion&#8221; to mean when any US troops enter another country, even if invited. So don&#8217;t forget Libya, Egypt, Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, France, Poland, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Albania, Greece, Italy, Monaco, Norway, San Marino, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Macedonia, Croatia, Serbia, Mexico, Canada, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Cuba, Ottoman Empire, Algeria, Brazil, Liberia, most of the former countries of West Africa with the anti-slave patrols from 1820 through the start of the Civil War, including the Gold Coast, the Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Sierra Leone, Senegal, the Gambia, etc., Spain, Indonesia, Peru, Nicaragua, Japan, China, Uruguay, Panama, Angola, Samoa, Chile, Ethiopia, Honduras, Guatemala, Turkey, Costa Rica, St. Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, Trinidad and Tobago, Iceland, Israel, Formosa (Taiwan), Lebanon, Thailand, Zaire, El Salvador, Chad, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Central African Republic, Gabon, Cambodia, Guinea-Bissau, Afghanistan, Timor-Leste, Australia, Nigeria, Georgia, Djibouti, Uganda, Jordan, New Zealand. . . and if you wish to give the US some credit for other Allied liberations of death camps accomplished by British and Soviet troops, you could add Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus,, Ukraine, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom to the list, too.</p>
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		<title>By: Randy Kaplan</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/majid-rafizadeh/the-ten-worst-places-to-be-a-christian/comment-page-1/#comment-5355635</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Randy Kaplan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 02:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On behalf of Jews everywhere, this former Jew wishes to express his gratitude that when Muslims call for the extermination of Jews (aka when Muslims breathe), you are exercised to take notice. When the Iranians have nuked Tel Aviv and leftists have banished every non-secular Jew from every college and university in the world, we will, from our graves and our exile, be eternally grateful that such events might bother you a little bit.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On behalf of Jews everywhere, this former Jew wishes to express his gratitude that when Muslims call for the extermination of Jews (aka when Muslims breathe), you are exercised to take notice. When the Iranians have nuked Tel Aviv and leftists have banished every non-secular Jew from every college and university in the world, we will, from our graves and our exile, be eternally grateful that such events might bother you a little bit.</p>
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		<title>By: defcon 4</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[defcon 4]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 02:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Aztecs practiced human sacrifice. Tens of thousands died each year to appease their death cult. Maybe you would rather have them back?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Aztecs practiced human sacrifice. Tens of thousands died each year to appease their death cult. Maybe you would rather have them back?</p>
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		<title>By: defcon 4</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[defcon 4]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 02:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one was calling for the extermination of Jews at USC until the f&#039;ing muzzies showed up. USC&#039;s MSU had, on their homepage (sponsored by the university) a hadith that called for the worldwide extermination of Jews. I only knew about it because David Horowitz reported it.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No one was calling for the extermination of Jews at USC until the f&#8217;ing muzzies showed up. USC&#8217;s MSU had, on their homepage (sponsored by the university) a hadith that called for the worldwide extermination of Jews. I only knew about it because David Horowitz reported it.</p>
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		<title>By: defcon 4</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[defcon 4]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 02:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#039;ll either lose your moral center or have it taken from you by muslime barbarians -- as the kind people of Lebanon (lebanon was once a majority Christian country) have found out the hard way.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;ll either lose your moral center or have it taken from you by muslime barbarians &#8212; as the kind people of Lebanon (lebanon was once a majority Christian country) have found out the hard way.</p>
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		<title>By: Randy Kaplan</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Randy Kaplan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 01:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for the good advice.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the good advice.</p>
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		<title>By: Randy Kaplan</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Randy Kaplan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 01:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I know why the Black Death got its name, and how many people it killed. No one disputes that disease can wipe out populations. But your citing the irrelevant case of bubonic plague is just another demonstration of your ignorance of epidemiology. First of all, there&#039;s an amazing lack of direct evidence for an assertion that is so widespread as the one that European diseases killed huge numbers of native populations. Second of all, there&#039;s a huge element of magical thinking in the arguments. There is little difference among the various races in the acquisition of immunity to infectious disease, including Native Americans. (The same statement cannot be made in regard to Australian aborigines; there simply weren&#039;t enough purebred or mostly aborigines left alive when medical technology had advanced enough to make credible studies and determinations in this area.) There were large-scale outbreaks of various infectious diseases of European and African origin (the latter usually as a result of the importation of African slaves to the New World) long before the advent of the British colonies in America and the American Revolution. Here&#039;s the key question: if these previous outbreaks did not confer any immunity (and I don&#039;t know how that would possibly happen), then why didn&#039;t they wipe out Native Americans in the 1500s and 1600s? We know that Native Americans were not wiped out in those eras, in contrast to, say, the Incas and Aztecs, who were. Another question: if European diseases were some kind of magic bullet slaying Native Americans with ease, why did these diseases have little effect on the Native Americans of the western American plains and the Southwest? No, the argument is not convincing, and the evidence scanty at best. But the core of the issue is not epidemiology, immunity or the lack of it, or anything at all about diseases. It&#039;s about morality. With a very few exceptions, there&#039;s no evidence that Europeans ever tried to deliberately spread diseases among Native populations, because even if they had some natural immunity themselves, they would still have increased the chances of contracting such diseases themselves, in areas and conditions where medical help was scarce and ineffective. So EVEN IF the introduction of European and African infectious diseases played a significant role in the destruction of native populations, THERE WASN&#039;T ANY INTENT INVOLVED. War, murder, forced displacement of peoples, destruction of habitats and food supplies - all the elements of genocide - all required INTENT and massive effort. The moral cesspool that intent and effort represented is undeniable, inexcusable, inescapable. And the evil this represents is even more contagious than many infectious diseases. Perhaps the best evidence of that is that the great George Washington even ordered the genocide of the Iroquois Nations in the Sullivan-Clinton Expeditions of 1779 and 1780.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think I know why the Black Death got its name, and how many people it killed. No one disputes that disease can wipe out populations. But your citing the irrelevant case of bubonic plague is just another demonstration of your ignorance of epidemiology. First of all, there&#8217;s an amazing lack of direct evidence for an assertion that is so widespread as the one that European diseases killed huge numbers of native populations. Second of all, there&#8217;s a huge element of magical thinking in the arguments. There is little difference among the various races in the acquisition of immunity to infectious disease, including Native Americans. (The same statement cannot be made in regard to Australian aborigines; there simply weren&#8217;t enough purebred or mostly aborigines left alive when medical technology had advanced enough to make credible studies and determinations in this area.) There were large-scale outbreaks of various infectious diseases of European and African origin (the latter usually as a result of the importation of African slaves to the New World) long before the advent of the British colonies in America and the American Revolution. Here&#8217;s the key question: if these previous outbreaks did not confer any immunity (and I don&#8217;t know how that would possibly happen), then why didn&#8217;t they wipe out Native Americans in the 1500s and 1600s? We know that Native Americans were not wiped out in those eras, in contrast to, say, the Incas and Aztecs, who were. Another question: if European diseases were some kind of magic bullet slaying Native Americans with ease, why did these diseases have little effect on the Native Americans of the western American plains and the Southwest? No, the argument is not convincing, and the evidence scanty at best. But the core of the issue is not epidemiology, immunity or the lack of it, or anything at all about diseases. It&#8217;s about morality. With a very few exceptions, there&#8217;s no evidence that Europeans ever tried to deliberately spread diseases among Native populations, because even if they had some natural immunity themselves, they would still have increased the chances of contracting such diseases themselves, in areas and conditions where medical help was scarce and ineffective. So EVEN IF the introduction of European and African infectious diseases played a significant role in the destruction of native populations, THERE WASN&#8217;T ANY INTENT INVOLVED. War, murder, forced displacement of peoples, destruction of habitats and food supplies &#8211; all the elements of genocide &#8211; all required INTENT and massive effort. The moral cesspool that intent and effort represented is undeniable, inexcusable, inescapable. And the evil this represents is even more contagious than many infectious diseases. Perhaps the best evidence of that is that the great George Washington even ordered the genocide of the Iroquois Nations in the Sullivan-Clinton Expeditions of 1779 and 1780.</p>
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		<title>By: Randy Kaplan</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Randy Kaplan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 01:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all, restitution for genocide is neither really even possible, nor does it absolve the perpetrators of their moral guilt. Second of all, I have never suggested for an instant ANY comparison of the genocides perpetrated by non-Muslims should be or could be compared to those perpetrated, still being conducted, and still being gleefully planned and contemplated by the hideous, subhuman Muslims. While I scoff at the notion of restitution for genocide, you are certainly correct that not only do Muslims completely reject any such impulses and lie and deny their culpability in endless acts of horror and barbarism, it is completely ingrained in their cultures and their religious belief. Christianity has a few stains in its past, as does America, as does Judaism, as does any number of other religions and nations. The difference is, as you note, that despite the efforts of the left to mischaracterize the conduct and policies of the West, we left our barbarism behind a long time ago, and we are ashamed of it and strive NOT to repeat it. Islam is the cancer that delights in death, and it should be wiped out from the face of the earth forever. THAT is a genocide that well might end all genocide forever, and I would gladly be a soldier in that war.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First of all, restitution for genocide is neither really even possible, nor does it absolve the perpetrators of their moral guilt. Second of all, I have never suggested for an instant ANY comparison of the genocides perpetrated by non-Muslims should be or could be compared to those perpetrated, still being conducted, and still being gleefully planned and contemplated by the hideous, subhuman Muslims. While I scoff at the notion of restitution for genocide, you are certainly correct that not only do Muslims completely reject any such impulses and lie and deny their culpability in endless acts of horror and barbarism, it is completely ingrained in their cultures and their religious belief. Christianity has a few stains in its past, as does America, as does Judaism, as does any number of other religions and nations. The difference is, as you note, that despite the efforts of the left to mischaracterize the conduct and policies of the West, we left our barbarism behind a long time ago, and we are ashamed of it and strive NOT to repeat it. Islam is the cancer that delights in death, and it should be wiped out from the face of the earth forever. THAT is a genocide that well might end all genocide forever, and I would gladly be a soldier in that war.</p>
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		<title>By: Randy Kaplan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 01:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I cannot disagree that the line between warfare and genocide is anything but crystal clear, and that others may have a different opinion of various actions in history than mine that may be equally valid or accurate. In all that, drakken, you have a good point. 

I would only refine your statement that &quot;there are no morals and ethics when it comes to warfare, there is only the conquerors and the conquered&quot; a little bit. Another truth is that you cannot stop the tide of history and the advancement of humanity. Often, advancement comes when the stronger defeats the weaker. Call it social Darwinism, call it whatever you like, it is to a large extent not only inevitable, it is desirable. Since I am not a believer, I can&#039;t attribute it to the will of God, but I wouldn&#039;t argue with someone who sees it that way. I say historically inevitable, you say the will of God - we&#039;re not disagreeing. I guess I&#039;m making the slightly different point that war is often inevitable, and the defeat of the weaker is also often inevitable, and a war undertaken when the outcome is more easily predictable is not any more morally fraught than the war fought by the underdog against the tyrant. It&#039;s not quite the morally-neutral stance you seem to be taking, but I&#039;m not criticizing you, I&#039;m simply suggesting a supplementary point that makes your point less cruelly, if you will. 

But I thank you for a valid reminder. I think it&#039;s stupid to waste moral energy on apologizing for things that are inevitable, or for things that your forebears may have done that you had nothing to do with, even if you benefited from the results, because, as you imply, well of course that&#039;s the kind of result that was intended. If you&#039;re not a Muslim, you don&#039;t fight wars because you love death and killing; you have specific goals, and those goals involve either opposing evil or advancing good for your own people and allies. And there&#039;s really no way to say that is wrong. I&#039;m NOT a pacifist. I agree with Robert A. Heinlein, that &quot;pacifism is as shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty.&quot; 

Could America have become the greatest country ever on earth without exterminating most of the Native Americans? I don&#039;t know, and I doubt anyone else does, either. But I DO know that America DID become and IS the greatest nation ever on earth, the Native Americans are gone, and like every other American (including the surviving Native Americans), I benefit from the results. And I agree with you that shedding crocodile tears over the past is pointless. 

Another Heinlein quotation relevant to your point: &quot;I now define &#039;moral behavior&#039; as &#039;behavior that tends toward survival.&#039; I won&#039;t argue with philosophers or theologians who choose to use the word &#039;moral&#039; to mean something else, but I do not think anyone can define &#039;behavior that tends toward extinction&#039; as being &#039;moral&#039; without stretching the word &#039;moral&#039; all out of shape.&quot;

I hope I wasn&#039;t twisting morality out of shape and I thank you again for reminding me of reality and hard truths.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I cannot disagree that the line between warfare and genocide is anything but crystal clear, and that others may have a different opinion of various actions in history than mine that may be equally valid or accurate. In all that, drakken, you have a good point. </p>
<p>I would only refine your statement that &#8220;there are no morals and ethics when it comes to warfare, there is only the conquerors and the conquered&#8221; a little bit. Another truth is that you cannot stop the tide of history and the advancement of humanity. Often, advancement comes when the stronger defeats the weaker. Call it social Darwinism, call it whatever you like, it is to a large extent not only inevitable, it is desirable. Since I am not a believer, I can&#8217;t attribute it to the will of God, but I wouldn&#8217;t argue with someone who sees it that way. I say historically inevitable, you say the will of God &#8211; we&#8217;re not disagreeing. I guess I&#8217;m making the slightly different point that war is often inevitable, and the defeat of the weaker is also often inevitable, and a war undertaken when the outcome is more easily predictable is not any more morally fraught than the war fought by the underdog against the tyrant. It&#8217;s not quite the morally-neutral stance you seem to be taking, but I&#8217;m not criticizing you, I&#8217;m simply suggesting a supplementary point that makes your point less cruelly, if you will. </p>
<p>But I thank you for a valid reminder. I think it&#8217;s stupid to waste moral energy on apologizing for things that are inevitable, or for things that your forebears may have done that you had nothing to do with, even if you benefited from the results, because, as you imply, well of course that&#8217;s the kind of result that was intended. If you&#8217;re not a Muslim, you don&#8217;t fight wars because you love death and killing; you have specific goals, and those goals involve either opposing evil or advancing good for your own people and allies. And there&#8217;s really no way to say that is wrong. I&#8217;m NOT a pacifist. I agree with Robert A. Heinlein, that &#8220;pacifism is as shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay &#8211; and claims a halo for his dishonesty.&#8221; </p>
<p>Could America have become the greatest country ever on earth without exterminating most of the Native Americans? I don&#8217;t know, and I doubt anyone else does, either. But I DO know that America DID become and IS the greatest nation ever on earth, the Native Americans are gone, and like every other American (including the surviving Native Americans), I benefit from the results. And I agree with you that shedding crocodile tears over the past is pointless. </p>
<p>Another Heinlein quotation relevant to your point: &#8220;I now define &#8216;moral behavior&#8217; as &#8216;behavior that tends toward survival.&#8217; I won&#8217;t argue with philosophers or theologians who choose to use the word &#8216;moral&#8217; to mean something else, but I do not think anyone can define &#8216;behavior that tends toward extinction&#8217; as being &#8216;moral&#8217; without stretching the word &#8216;moral&#8217; all out of shape.&#8221;</p>
<p>I hope I wasn&#8217;t twisting morality out of shape and I thank you again for reminding me of reality and hard truths.</p>
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		<title>By: Drakken</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Drakken]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2014 23:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You call it genocide, I call it warfare, we came, we saw and we conquered, and we have nothing to apologize for. We made this country what it is today, not the conquered natives. There are no morals and ethics when it comes to warfare, there is only the conquers and conquered.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You call it genocide, I call it warfare, we came, we saw and we conquered, and we have nothing to apologize for. We made this country what it is today, not the conquered natives. There are no morals and ethics when it comes to warfare, there is only the conquers and conquered.</p>
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