[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]SkyzykS wrote:
Well, if you feel that strongly about it, take up arms against him/them.
There is nothing stopping someone from going freelance and declaring war against something that they consider worthy of being wiped from the face of the earth.
All you need is plain tickets and a weapons source when you get there.
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Wow, my message must be really misread. I am not advocating killing them. I am shocked that someone would do this. How come no one else is upset about this?[/quote]
Well, what does a lion do when it has been thoroughly agitated? It swats the life right out of the agitator. (just extending the analogy a bit)
Actually, I’m not nearly as concerned with this as I am with the growing threat potential of a full on nuclear war between France and Pakistan.
You see, a while back, France made it very clear that if there was any terrorist acts carried out against them they can go full retard. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/19/AR2006011903311.html
In the past couple of weeks there has been a considerable rise in the security measures due to an increased level of terrorist threats and their preparation to carry them out. This is through-out Europe, but reportedly, Al Qaeda has a serious beef particularly with France due to their continued involvement in our current attempt at eradicating terrorists.
With Al Qaeda being embedded in the mountain region shared by Afghanistan and Pakistan, that region is a very likely target of attack if something happens in France. Pakistan has nuclear weapons, and they probably won’t appreciate it if France uses theirs on or near Pakistan, which due to poorly defined boundaries, may or may not be spared from a nuclear blast.
Now I know that there are a couple of If → Thens in there, but we’re talking Nuclear War here, not tiddlywinks, and Chirrac made his intentions pretty clear in '06 about their preparation and willingness to go nuclear.
So, maybe in the grand scheme of current world affairs a guy dancing on an altar is bad, but not that bad. Not threat of nuclear war bad.