Russia, China, or Middle East?

[Faisul]

Yeh I was kidding about the whole "taking away bible" stuff

for the record have I made any unkind statements or something? Or just secular ones

You make it reeeeaaaaally hard to see when you're kidding or not because you've thrown around religion in arguments like this in exactly the same way and then done a 180 when everyone picks your statements apart before. And you display roughly the same level of reasoning and knowledge about the conflicts in question as the average deeply religious republican.

I'm gonna have to echo the sentiment that America's greatest threat isn't international, but a domestic one. China's far too invested economically in American markets, Russia is too busy hating on Nato and cutting off crucial oil and gas to its indigenous peoples, and the Middle East is in a sweeping chain of revolutions that'll probably last for a decade.

[TCPeppyTc]

@ Chaos leader. I will keep that in mind.

@ unoservix. Though It may seem like I am splitting hairs I believe Al Qaeda was just as glad that Sadaam was gone as George W Bush was. Sadaam Hussein may have been a Muslim, but he wasnt terribly religious, and cracked down on fundamentalist Imams like none other. With him gone, Al Qaeda ( and Shiite militias) would each get a chance to establish a Theocracy in Iraq. From the look of things, it seems they both failed, adn probably wont succeed in the future

[Drasiana]

Yeh I was kidding about the whole "taking away bible" stuff

No you were not.

This is not the first time you've thrown some random unfounded statement on religion into conversation, in a completely serious tone and context, only to go LOL JK when called out on it.

First there was this catastrophe, then you have whined about voting for a "Christian America" in the chatbox. Both times you've gone "lol jk" but considering there is actually no joke to be found in any of this statements, your claim of joking can only be seen as really thinly-veiled backpedalling. The fact that you keep bringing it up anyway makes it obvious this is a definite factor in any debates you keep trying to instigate, and while I understand not wanting to throw a forum into a flurry of religious debate, you either need to stop backpedalling and try to debate like a big boy or you can stop mentioning it at all.

[Thu'um]

That's the thing. Chinas economy is growing at an extraordinary rate, but for how long? Somehow, they've managed to create the largest real-estate bubble in the history of mankind, their inflation ratio is steeply rising, and so is the prices on commodities such as oil. Sounds familiar? That's pretty much the same recipe that drove the whole west into the ditch just a few years ago.

I'm not sure the US have reached the bottom yet. You might find yourself taking another fall. But so might very well China too, and the EU is allready hanging by the thread.

china is gonna have an economic hang over of sorts when Oil and gas become scare. it gonna be a really bad scene. I'd also like to see what happens with the communist gov over there with their populace becoming more and more educated.

the middle east isn't the problem, terrorism is. and guess what terrorists are everywhere, in the us, in china, in russia, and every other place you can care to name.

[unoservix]

Terrorism isn't really the problem. There have always been and will always be terrorists. The problem is when you do things that make reasonable people start to believe what the terrorists say. The terrorists can be dealt with easily enough if they don't have the public on their side; and yet if they have the public on their side, you cannot defeat them.