As far as I know, "TOS" is the name of the operating system that Atari ST computers ran. I used to be familiar with low-level programming on ST's, but it's been a while. And why would the Wall Street Journal be talking about such an old computer anyway?
It's an article on Star Trek: The Original Series (as opposed to Star Trek: The Next Generation, or TNG).
I don't see what the BFD is. 1 - we are the world's military leader. 2 - the world is our bitch. Why is this so hard to understand? Why are so many of the liberal wackos on this board ashamed of these two basic facts? Deal with it, libbies. You are the bully.
Sardinia...good find. I read something today that I wanted to use, but couldn't find a place for. The US is losing the battle in the UN because the battle there is no longer about containing Saddam. It's about containing the US. The world is afraid of us. And they're right to be.
Re: Re: Bush's inflated sense of supremacy I already read her unfortunately. She is a crazy fundamentalist without any doubt. A war made in cold blood to respond to the Holy War that the enemies of the West declared upon the West on September 11. It is also a prophylactic war In Europe your enemies are everywhere, Mr. Bush. What you quietly call "differences of opinion" are in reality pure hate. Because in Europe pacifism is synonymous with anti-Americanism, sir, and accompanied by the most sinister revival of anti-Semitism the anti-Americanism triumphs as much as in the Islamic world. Haven't your ambassadors informed you? Europe is no longer Europe. It is a province of Islam, as Spain and Portugal were at the time of the Moors. It hosts almost 16 million Muslim immigrants and teems with mullahs, imams, mosques, burqas, chadors. It lodges thousands of Islamic terrorists whom governments don't know how to identify and control. People are afraid, and in waving the flag of pacifism--pacifism synonymous with anti-Americanism--they feel protected. What a racist moron.
The Wall $h$t Journal is publishing articles from someone to the right of Bush, in their efforts at "balanced" journalism. Bush painted himself into a corner, under-estimating the complexity of world leadership. He will go down in history as one of the worst, ever.
Can the contrast in credibility between the two articles linked in this thread possibly be any greater? The answer is "none". "In Europe your enemies are everywhere, Mr. Bush. What you quietly call "differences of opinion" are in reality pure hate. blah blah blah Europe is no longer Europe. It is a province of Islam blah blah blah People are afraid, and in waving the flag of pacifism--pacifism synonymous with anti-Americanism--they feel protected." I'm not absolutely convinced that this second article isn't really an inspired parody or prank to make the pro-war faction look inexcusably stupid.
That should be the case. Unfortunately, Bush is doing his darndest so when people refer to the Leader of the Free World, they mean Jacques Chirac.
Do you really believe what you typed here? Really? I doubt it. "The world should be more afraid of the United States than people like Saddam Hussein." ????? Man, it seems the liberals here get more and more fringe/nutjob-ish by the day.
Dave is exactly right. If he wasn't, the UN would have already voted with us. It's pretty simple. The world knows that Iraq is essentially a pain to its people and those on its borders, whereas the US has the power to be a pain all over the world. To me, its seems foolish to think that a country that tries to be moral (U.S.) is more of a danger than an evil country like Iraq. But certainly, if I were a member of the world community, I'd be an idiot if I didn't see this as, in part, the US trying to force its dominance on the rest of the world. In that sense, clearly, the US is more of a potential threat than Iraq. I am not saying those countries are right, but its not a very illogical way of thinking.
Well, I'm saying those countries are right. I mean, I don't think the Canucks are fearful of an attack from us. But there are many, many nations in the world that have gvts. more or less as oppressive as Iraq's, and they all should be mroe scared of us than of Iraq. And as for Canada and Costa Rica and Poland? They are 100% correct to be more worried about our bull in a china shop routine wrecking world institutions, and the world economy, than to be worried about Saddam.