Politics - 17 October 2006

2006-10-17 04:54:29 · 7 answers · asked by not coming back 3

For years, foreign policy was pretty simple: if your country was a third world country that supplied multinational corporations with resources, the US tended to consider those nations as "friends" or at least friendly and stable. If your country supported supplying governments with resources (i.e., Communism or Third World socialism), especially by seizing multi-national holdings in those countries, the nation was considered an opponent of the US.

Today, a claimed part of our foreign policy is to promote global democracy. Yet initial results have given us Hamas, a Lebanese government with a sizable Hezbollah faction and others. Considering that in a real democracy, the masses very well might elect the new Hitler (even if only scaled down to small country size), is democracy really, in your opinion, the way to global security. In lots of Third World countries with a few wealthy and lots and lots of poor, there is a greater chance a "reformer" will want to fix that situation.

2006-10-17 04:45:37 · 23 answers · asked by kingstubborn 6

2006-10-17 04:38:25 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm more interested in hearing from people who listen to people like Schultz, Franken, Rhodes, etc but others are welcome too. Do they provide you with a balanced view of complex issues?
Please don’t get sidetracked talking about the finances of Air America. Please keep your answer focused on the content of the shows.

2006-10-17 04:36:24 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Militaristic Republican sometimes say "nuke 'em" in response to a foreign policy question. Could this solution actually have side-benefits?

2006-10-17 04:33:05 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Just curious. Thanks.

2006-10-17 04:24:53 · 11 answers · asked by Rob 5

Laura Bush killed her ex-boyfriend the day after they broke up in an apparent murder/suicide attempt that went tragically wrong. She lived through it ans was hardly bruised.

George Walker Bush was convicted of drunken driving and has several other convictions against him including being AWOL from his military service.

Could he be jealous that his wife got off the hook, scott free, and was not even tested for drunken driving, after killing her ex BF, but he was convicted?

2006-10-17 04:23:22 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-17 04:22:25 · 5 answers · asked by Ur-4-Sale! 1

lots of starving little American kids of all races and she does the right thing?

2006-10-17 04:21:38 · 6 answers · asked by not coming back 3

2006-10-17 04:16:29 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

It seems like so many American farmers are losing the battle against the genetically modified foods and corporations. Which means we are losing the battle against eating healty and sustaining our own food. What do you forsee in the future?

2006-10-17 04:15:52 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

We started a war terrible war in Iraq. (Over 655,000 innocents were killed by our hands. I call them innocents because they did nothing to the United States before we invaded and occupied their county.)

It also looks like we might be fixin to start a war in Iran. (We sent war ships. It's also one of the only ways that the Republicans are going to win the next election. So be waiting for a convenient reason to attack to pop up in the coming weeks.)

Lets see what else... We're probabily going to bulid a wall across the Mexican border, iron curtain style. The president wants to suspend the right of American citizens to fair trials. We torture people. The president also wants the right to torture American citizens... including children...

I remember feeling proud of the United States when I was a kid. Now I am ashamed. How can you not be. This isn't what people fought and died for in the past.

There are some people who will support to the end though.

2006-10-17 04:13:35 · 16 answers · asked by josephmarzen 1

the reason i ask this question is because although saddam hussein is a vicious dictator, but we have to ask ourselves this important question, would he of reached to the point of murdering thousands of people if it wearnt for western/soviect countries who recongised as a legitimate government and supplied him masses of weapons to do his dartdly deeds. After all in england if a sold a gun to a child that went on a murder spree, I'm pretty sure I would be found guilt of accessory to murder / manslaughter

2006-10-17 04:00:14 · 7 answers · asked by moyolinux 1

Wow huh - I guess it is war Where most nations try to avoid a war with the US N Korea is headed straight for it. I am a little confused by the wording - What do U think??

UN sanctions a declaration of war: North Korea
Tue Oct 17, 6:50 AM



North Korea said Tuesday the United Nations has declared war on the Communist country by imposing sanctions in response to its nuclear weapon test.

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The Foreign Ministry issued a statement on the official Korean Central News Agency saying Pyongyang would like "peace but is not afraid of war," and the UN Security Council "resolution cannot be construed otherwise than a declaration of a war."


The ministry described the sanctions as "a product of the U.S. hostile policy toward" North Korea.


North Korea threatened to take serious action against any person that uses the UN resolution to impinge upon its sovereignty, saying in the statement North Korea "will deal merciless blows at him through strong actions."

2006-10-17 03:55:50 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

Only to be overpaid by your tax money because they are in a so-called combat zone? Then go off to live in another country and mock your way of life?

2006-10-17 03:52:20 · 6 answers · asked by Gettin_by 3

I'm more interested in hearing from people who listen to people like Rush, Hannity, O'Reilly, etc but others are welcome too. Do they provide you with a balanced view of complex issues?

2006-10-17 03:52:13 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

or are they just born like that?

2006-10-17 03:49:01 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-17 03:46:15 · 11 answers · asked by alanc_59 5

As a so called public service announcement to get unmarried women to vote, they made a commercial of women talking about voting as if they were talking about sex. Maybe they can show the organic shampoo commercial with it. Maybe they can convince women into thinking voting and shampooing their hair is the equivalent of a weekend of wild sex.

2006-10-17 03:46:02 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-17 03:44:00 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-17 03:42:34 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Question for the rich and/or conservatives: under a liberal government, is it better to be a slave of liberals by letting them tax the hell out of you, make you feel guilty for being rich, punish you for being rich, spending your own money, claiming to have worked for your money, and having a different opinion, OR is it better to sacrifice patriotism and leave the oppressive taxation and anti-success mentality of a liberal government and move to another country with less taxes? whats there to be patriotic about if the country HATES you for being successful and/or having a different opinion?

2006-10-17 03:39:56 · 8 answers · asked by kunta kinte 2

Why is it that we have known more about where babies come from than in all of human history and no matterr how much you tell people to put a bag on it, take their birth control pills right, and show them where their genitals and reproductive organs are located, they still can't get it through their heads that the consequences are pregnancy and STD's?

How many more decades of Birth Contol promotion and STD awareness will finally bring down the abortion rate significantly?

And if it's true that about a million abortions happen every year, it's also true that they are having sex unprotected from contracting STD's.
Women who get abortions are more likely to have STD's and therefore, spread STD's.
Abortion is nothing people should be advocating.
It encourages an unhealthy life for everyone.

2006-10-17 03:33:44 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

i am more than qualified you know.

2006-10-17 03:30:53 · 16 answers · asked by triumph_the_insult_comic_dog 1

2006-10-17 03:27:59 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-17 03:22:18 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

who agrees that affirmative action is reverse racism? if a law is made to require a business to hire on the basis of the color of one's skin, is that not discrimination? if you want to accuse me of using the race card, just look at democrats. is it right that a black doctor who was educated at the Somalian Medical Institute gets a job at John Hopkins instead of a white guy who was educated at Emory or Mount Sinai JUST because of a discrimination law?

2006-10-17 03:20:32 · 15 answers · asked by kunta kinte 2

So many people are in debt because of medical bills. Doctors make so much money but treat those without a dime, perscribing this and ordering that. 20% to 40% of the average Americans paycheck is taken for healthcare yet we get reemed on deductibles and payouts. Healthcare is free in Canada, so whats our problem? My theory is the greedy healthcare corporations and doctors. What do you think?

2006-10-17 03:16:07 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

I think Bush doesnt care about democracy in iraq, because Saudi Arabia is a fascist country, there is no democracy in Saudi Arabia.(Religions: Muslim 100% !) They hate other religions, they help terrorists.

Why didnt he invade this fascist country?
oil...or......???

2006-10-17 03:11:36 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

3000 troops dead so where are the WMDs Bush wanted to find?

2006-10-17 03:11:29 · 15 answers · asked by JS 3