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Everything posted by Delbow
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Imagine if George W Bush on 9/11 had gone on TV and said: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war? Because that's been our foreign policy since 1979.
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Well this is the problem of interfering isn't it - what do you do next? The least they could have done was de-mine it and try to get their weapons back from the Mujahedeen, anything that would have restored some stability. But obviously the best thing they could have done was leave it alone in the first place. And yet, still they meddle all over the place.
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Nice one, although I shall have to execute you for the littering 😉
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Cheers for that. Brzezinski's plan was one of the most destabilising decisions ever made about the middle east. There would have been no 9/11 without Brzezinski. What Rashid's book goes on to explain is that once Soviet forces had been humiliated and retreated, the US literally just left Afghanistan to it. "Cheers, you've served your purpose, bye". They left some of Afghanistan's best agricultural land littered with landmines and the country in disarray. They created a power vacuum which the Taliban - an evolution of the Mujahedeen trained and armed by the US to fight the USSR - filled. They still had plenty of weaponry the US had given them. The lack of thought, the callousness, the arrogance that the US showed in leaving Afghanistan to its own devices, having ruined it to achieve America's geopolitical ends, is staggering, and the consequences four decades on are still profound.
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Of course there is. For most smokers, the pleasure of smoking a fag or a vape comes from the feeding of an addiction, in other words the brain is sending messages to get some nicotine onboard asap because it has become habituated to it. This is the case for all smokers except those that might associate having a smoke with going to the pub or whatever. Whereas alcohol use is usually something that takes place in discrete parts of the day or evening and is not in the service of an addiction for most people.
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I'm not sure you would rather be in Spain. Some of their reservoirs were 15% full in February, imagine what they'll be like come August.
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I'm saying it's possible that they would, yes. It's not my responsibility to educate you, but to understand what went wrong in Afghanistan and why, and the US's role in that, I'd recommend this book Anything about the Shah and the reasons for the 1979 revolution would give insight into the UK's role in the rise of the Ayatollahs in Iran.
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Yeah, was thinking of having another crack but he's quite limited
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No, absolutely not, what they wear is heavily policed by the state. Those conservative elements were there in the 1970s of course, you can find photos of women in Kabul and Tehran covered up to varying degrees from that time, but the difference was that there was choice.
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" I actually feel sorry for you that you have been brainwashed"
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Kabul 1971 Iran 1960s and 1970s. There's nothing inevitable about the current state of either country. Both have ended up where they are in part because of western interference, which has all been about oil and its crucial importance in western industrial economies.
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Rather ironic from someone who is simply unable to countenance anything other than the mainstream view on any issue, ever. I don't agree with everything Mafya says but at least they're able to look past the official versions of history we're spoon-fed from school onwards.
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Worth pointing out that both Afghanistan and Iran were much more liberal until they were used by Western governments for their own ends. The Islamic regime in Iran was only able to take over because the British-backed Shah was corrupt - when the opposition tried to make Iranian oil for Iranians (instead of the British), the British helped the Shah to undermine those efforts. The result was an initially left wing revolution, which the Ayatollah took advantage of to take power. If the British government hadn't been so greedy for Iranian oil, Iran likely wouldn't have an Islamic government. The US used its operations in Afghanistan as bait to draw the USSR into unwinnable war there, after which the US left the country in turmoil, allowing the Taliban to take over. Both regimes are direct results of western imperialism.
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Having a moderate amount of alcohol elevates your mood above baseline, smoking doesn't. Having a smoke generates relief from minor withdrawal, not pleasure. If I were to hit a Tory in the head with a hammer every five minutes but then pause for an hour, are they enjoying that hour, or just relieved? And anyway, as you were born before 2009 you are free to smoke.
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As Novara Media puts it, Israel keeps pushing western leaders' limits - and discovering there aren't any.
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Well, it seems Iran telegraphed the attack, allowing Israel and its allies plenty of opportunity to defend against it. Seems it was more symbolic than anything.
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Governments keep changing the pension age. That means that people born on adjacent days have different rights. Do you think all the changes made to the pension age should be undone?
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No-one actually enjoys smoking though. For smokers, smoking simply brings their mood up to a non-smokers' baseline, which they may experience as enjoyment.
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It's not as if that was the first act in the decades-long Israel/Palestine saga though is it. We can all argue about who ultimately 'started it' and when, but my point is about the selective way that a government's right to defend itself or retaliate is being applied here. If a foreign government attacked and killed several British diplomatic and military staff, the general feeling in the UK and its government wouldn't be "yeah, fair enough actually lads. Let's call it quits, eh?"
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I despise the Iranian regime, let's get that out of the way first. I've supported some of the victims of that regime to settle in the UK, I know what they're like. When Hamas carried out their atrocity on 7 October, world leaders were unanimous that Israel had the right to defend itself. I agree, but most people in the UK seem to agree that Israel has gone much, much further than simply defending itself. This includes an attack on Iran's consulate in Syria, killing several members of Iran's armed forces. Now the same world leaders who said Israel had the right to defend itself are saying Iran should not retaliate against Israel. This is surely total hypocrisy.
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Brett Garbutt: 'Evil' Rotherham Rapist Groomed 'Vulnerable' Girl
Delbow replied to The_DADDY's topic in General Discussions
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That's the Tory way. When water companies were illegally releasing raw sewage into rivers, the Tories changed the law to make it ok; if someone claiming carer's allowance earns 30p too much, the law goes after them. 'Opportunity For All'.
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Disgusting, corrupt cronyism. Need gibbets.
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Oh yeah, there's that weirdness of 'new style JSA'. I can't remember but I think that's a short term thing. If you are on benefits longer or if you need to apply for help with housing costs or what was tax credits I think you have to claim UC.
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UC has replaced Jobseeker's Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance, housing benefit and working tax credit, so has (in theory) streamlined 4 into 1. There are other benefits such as Personal Independence Payment and Disability Living Allowance that remain outside of UC.