erm except many irish escaped to the new world. they didnt exactly live with it.CameronPoe wrote:
"I would rather live in the dark ages than be subservient to any foreign power."
A sentiment shared by many Irish people for some 800 years. Imperial types can never understand this.
Also basically because Pakistan has nukes no matter what the Pakistan population wants, the Taliban aren't going to get their hands on them. I'd think (and hope) the US/UK and also India would rather nuke and destroy Pakistan in a first strike then let the Taliban/AQ get a hold of them.He told me about a session he had with a group of 20 recently detained Iraqi Takfiris.
Takfiris are really the last word in intolerance. They believe that anyone who does not share their very rigid interpretation of Islam is an infidel and should be killed.
The cleric described walking into the room where the Takfiris where waiting for him and offering the traditional greeting: "Salaam Aleikum".
The leader of the group responded by hurling his slippers into the cleric's face.
'With these guys you cannot let something like that go," the cleric told me, "or you lose all authority."
'Battle of wits'
The cleric looked the Takfiri leader in the eye and asked: "What did I just say to you?"
"You said Salaam Aleikum," the man replied.
"And what does that signify?" asked the cleric.
The Takfiri leader looked confused. "The word Salaam is one of the 99 names of Allah," the cleric went on.
"You have just thrown your slippers at Allah." He then turned to the other 19 Takfiris. "This man is an infidel," he said, "are you going to kill him?" He turned and left the room.
That night, the guards woke the cleric at 3am and rushed him down to the detention centre.
The Takfiri leader was huddled in the corner of the room shivering, his arms around his knees. "I didn't mean to offend you. Please get me away from here. I think they are going to kill me," he begged.
"So, in just 12 hours," the cleric concluded, "I dealt with the leader of some of the most hard-line people ever captured in Iraq."
"It's a battle of wits," I said. The cleric laughed. "Let's see who wins."
From Our Own Correspondent is broadcast on Saturday, 20 September, 2008 at 1130 BST on BBC Radio 4. Please check the programme schedules for World Service transmission times.
They didn't leave here because of the Brits - they left because of a 5 year long famine. And 3 million stayed ftr.usmarine wrote:
erm except many irish escaped to the new world. they didnt exactly live with it.
By expecting them to put up and shut up while your army marauds across their border into Pakistani sovereign territory?usmarine wrote:
and how are we trying to make them subservient? fuck sakes they are called terrorists we are trying to kill.
i thought the brits tried to starve you guys?CameronPoe wrote:
They didn't leave here because of the Brits - they left because of a 5 year long famine. And 3 million stayed ftr.usmarine wrote:
erm except many irish escaped to the new world. they didnt exactly live with it.By expecting them to put up and shut up while your army marauds across their border into Pakistani sovereign territory?usmarine wrote:
and how are we trying to make them subservient? fuck sakes they are called terrorists we are trying to kill.
A crop disease called blight reached Ireland from the US and destroyed our staple crops for several successive years. The Brits continued to export grain out of our country despite what was happening.usmarine wrote:
i thought the brits tried to starve you guys?
It's not your issue to deal with - it's theirs. Unless of course you plan on invading Pakistan, in which case I suggest you invest in a nuclear bomb shelter.usmarine wrote:
well anyway, stop being such a drama queen cam. idk what they think. they are terrorists who attacked us and many others. we cant help they give them safe haven in their country. if they would kick them out then they would not have that issue would they?
oh ok. lolCameronPoe wrote:
It's not your issue to deal with - it's theirs. Unless of course you plan on invading Pakistan, in which case I suggest you invest in a nuclear bomb shelter.
Push them back into Pakistan then, eh?usmarine wrote:
oh ok. lol
not our issue? maybe that would be true if they STAYED in pakistan.
what? stop trying to be cute i swear man.CameronPoe wrote:
Push them back into Pakistan then, eh?usmarine wrote:
oh ok. lol
not our issue? maybe that would be true if they STAYED in pakistan.
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Don't hit the mosque!rdx-fx wrote:
You're telling me you have never seen just how precise the US military can be, when they want a specific target taken out whilst leaving the surrounding area untouched?
Yet somehow i dont think a large majority of Pakistan's population is American... therefore it seems alittle different.usmarine wrote:
but yet the same people damming the US are the same ones who defended russia. lulz. dumb asses.
ya good job. god forbid we monitor al-q.tahadar wrote:
looks like one of our tribesmen shot down a Predator. oops.
http://geo.tv/9-24-2008/25519.htm
Please excuse my skepticism, but I'm pretty sure the tribesmen there don't have the firepower to shoot down a Predator. It might have been something smaller, like a Hunter or some similar Army UAV, as they fly much lower...but I doubt that, as well.usmarine wrote:
ya good job. god forbid we monitor al-q.tahadar wrote:
looks like one of our tribesmen shot down a Predator. oops.
http://geo.tv/9-24-2008/25519.htm
You jokers carefully herded them into Pakistan.ya good job. god forbid we monitor al-q.
no, they escaped because we could not follow them and were assured the pakis would take care of it. but what do i know, i was only there. you should know more about it because you have google.Dilbert_X wrote:
You jokers carefully herded them into Pakistan.ya good job. god forbid we monitor al-q.
What are you complaining about now?
not yetMGS3_GrayFox wrote:
usmarine were you in Pakistan?
