re: ISIS beheads Alan Henning. An American is on deck.

I actually have a very good chance of dying from a bee sting thank you.
Unlike most people though I know a great deal about life in the middle east and I partly agree with going totalitarian in that region.
The biggest problem in dealing with the Arabs in the middle east is half measures are pointless.
We've far too often just meddled around the fringes of the entire region.
A country like the United States can only do so much against the generations of entitled thinking that permeates the middle east.
I know, you're thinking what entitled thinking ?
Just about every sovereign nation in that region has either been or been hosts to huge numbers of refugees.
Instead of working hard to build each respective country from within, the men in charge from the local levels all the way up to the shieks and mullahs have sat on their asses while their woman and children performed the labors while they sat around drinking coffee and praying that Allah will come down and cure their plight, or that some Saudi prince will decide to give them some of that vast oil money.
So not only do they suffer but their families suffer, their villages suffer and on and on.
Their entire existence is predicated upon their suffering and the idea that Islam and Allah will swoop on in and ease their suffering if they pray, fast, suicide bomb enough to appease him.
When such suffering is so rampant and opportunities are so few the only place they have to turn to for solace is their religion, which wicked men posing as holy continually prey upon.
Every person wants their lives to have meaning and for so many of the Arabic youth the only means for them to "matter" is through Islam and more specifically radical Islam.
There's no shortage of boys willing to blow themselves up to be revered as a martyr and have their families receive what to them is a fortune for something with such little value as their life.
Until the men in that region dedicate themselves to building up their own homes, villages, cities and countries through their own hard work, ingenuity and ethical use of their own natural resources, there will never be peace there, regardless of how many air strikes or boots on the ground we utilize.
Granted, with entities like ISIS make this difficult, its their own fault that entities exist.

Because this country is run by a bunch of fricking pussies. Don't want to risk losing votes from the liberal dipshits that are against violence. If an American citizen is beheaded and we don't make that entire sandbox glow in the dark I will lose the little respect I have left for this government.

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yet, so many hardcore "christians" are conservative, right wing Republicans that would rather die than give money for societal programs, that in large part are NOT misused, as they would have you believe....

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Forcing charity on people generally isn't well received

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Are you drubk

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oh, the irony...

i wasn't, but apparently you were....

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you know how i know that was your intent? you could have just said you read it... but no... you say you read it TWICE!! ooohhhh..

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SO he said he read it twice, big deal

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like i said, i REALLY don't give a frick, and you should have just heeded my warning to spare me

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It seems like you REALLY DO give a frick given all the defensive replies you have made (with 4 in the last 7 minutes)... you sound like a d bag

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Dude busted out of left field throwing elbows

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He's still got some pent up anger from not getting into med school and being relegated to a woman's job...pharmacist. He hates doctors or anyone else he fears is intellectual superior to him. Also figure he's short or has a very small penis.

ETA-or both.

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Why on earth would dealing with poisons be a woman's job?

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I was being an arse. He's easily irritated. No offense to male pharmacists minus one.