You are working from a false premise, that people only believe lies about the US because the US has given them reason to. You forget that the US has been a rhetorical boogey man for any number of despots. Well, the US and Israel. If you're a despot, and you need to keep the people looking in the ot...

In a recent poll here in Australia, who along with the Brits are your staunchest allies, 32% did not believe OBL was actually dead: that's a third of Australians who were convinced the US was lying. That erosion of your international credibility is something to be proud of? So if I told enough lies...

Gold gained back all it lost and more I see, and oil is over $100 ($110 actually) again. --A Gold still hasn't hit the $2100 or so that some financial talking heads were suggesting though. Gold's value has been flat I imagine, once you take inflation into consideration. Oil dipped below $100 today....

Avatar wrote:All I'm hearing is "they did something bad, so we should do something bad back to them."

--A

All I'm saying is that if someone does something bad, there's a consequence for it.

I think both sides of the political divide would agree on the concept of the rule of law and how that separates us from a mob. That Cail should talk solid sense (almost uniquely it seems amongst the US contingent here) and that I should agree with him, should illustrate that point! The rule of law ...

Tjol, it is apparent that you have no grasp of history or the law. Additionally, you have utterly ignored what I've said in order to paint me with a liberal brush. Have fun with that, but you're no longer worth responding to. I'm not painting you with a liberal brush. I've repeatedly asked if you'r...

I have to ask though, if we can declare war on a group, not a nation state, how do we prosecute that war given the concrete realities of sovereign nations and borders? If Israel discovers that there's a Hamas cell in Alabama that's coordinating terrorist attacks in Jerusalem, do they have the right...

Well, you're wronger? OBL does not deserve, nor is he entitled to, the same treatment as a US citizen. It is demonstrable in fact, that by his actions against the US, that he would no longer be a US citizen based upon his actions. Look up the penalty for treason. Let me know how your argument holds...

Gold has lost about $100.00 from it's prior highs. Silver $15.00. Even Oil is down below $100.00 a barrel. Has the commodities bubble burst? Check out treasury yields too. They're at the lowest I've ever seen them. My ARM rate is tied to the one year constant maturing treasury yield so I've gotten ...

Is it your position that non-Americans don't have rights? Is it your position that an illegal alien isn't entitled to 4th and 14th Amendment protections? Every human being on the planet is entitled to basic human rights, period. That includes the right to due process. What of the governments and so...

The use of force was indeed apparently blanket authorized by Congress, presumably because war couldn't be declared against anything other than a nation state - that's certainly true against current international definitions. If this is truly the international standard for what counts as a requireme...

Agreed. --A And where does it say that in the Constitution? We can only go to war with official state governments? Communism is an ideology. We went to war to stop the spread of that. Bombing Pearl Harbor is a behavior. We went to war against that. Hitler was an individual. We went to war against h...

I wasn't aware that the US government was going to hold themselves to the standards of a Saudi expat and a self-proclaimed terrorist. I kinda figured we'd stick with that Constitution thingy. I think we'll stick with the Constitution and justice . Justice? Or revenge? Justice is subject to dispute;...

You didn't need him to. But maybe the US, or even the world, needed him to. (Of course it's not torture to "desecrate" a corpse. Hell, personally, I don't think you can desecrate a corpse, any more than you can desecrate a side of beef. That's not the point though. Those funerary rites/wh...

If we as a people stopped giving money to national parties, and instead gave our monies to specific candidates... Well, then again, I've never given money politically. But the only times I've ever even thought about donating money (that is when I had disposable income that I could give) was to indi...

It is an impeachable offense. No one will push it though, as it'd be political suicide Impeaching the man who ordered the death of OBL. Should a president, with congress's approval be able to declare war? If you think so, what is the distinction between government approving violence that may result...

What OBL did was a crime. By nature of the fact that he was an individual, not a nation, he can't declare war against us. What he can do is violate our laws, which he did. As such, it's our obligation to bring him to justice. As far as what parts of the Constitution back this up, how about the 4th ...

If we as a people stopped giving money to national parties, and instead gave our monies to specific candidates... Well, then again, I've never given money politically. But the only times I've ever even thought about donating money (that is when I had disposable income that I could give) was to indiv...

It is an impeachable offense. No one will push it though, as it'd be political suicide Impeaching the man who ordered the death of OBL. Should a president, with congress's approval be able to declare war? If you think so, what is the distinction between government approving violence that may result...

What OBL did was a crime. By nature of the fact that he was an individual, not a nation, he can't declare war against us. What he can do is violate our laws, which he did. As such, it's our obligation to bring him to justice. As far as what parts of the Constitution back this up, how about the 4th ...