From: unsettled on
T Wake wrote:

> "unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote in message
> news:2cda2$45b94c58$49ecf8f$1275(a)DIALUPUSA.NET...
>
>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>>In article <45B8C4A5.BCD7F27C(a)hotmail.com>,
>>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>They [Europeans] can afford to make
>>>>>these errors because their governments assume the US will
>>>>>save them with its military might.
>>>>
>>>>What do we need your military might for ?
>>>
>>>
>>>I don't know. I suspect so the politicians can point at the
>>>US and call us the bad people when things don't go perfectly. Smoke and
>>>mirrors.
>>
>>We saved them twice in the last century. They've done nothing
>>to improve their security situation since then, so eventually
>>we'll probably have to save them again.
>>
>
>
> In the past, I'd have expected better from you. Obviously I was wrong.

Your judgment is, in fact, impaired, more now than ever.

From: unsettled on
T Wake wrote:

> "unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote in message
> news:c866$45b94bf5$49ecf8f$1275(a)DIALUPUSA.NET...
> <snip
>
>>The never have gotten over Ghandi and their guilt for
>>their wholesale mistrating of all their colonials for
>>centuries. There appears to be some British sense that
>>if they spoil their criminals the government will
>>finally be better loved around the world. LOL
>>
>
>
> Nonsense.
>
>

I didn't actually think you'd get it.

From: unsettled on
T Wake wrote:

> "unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote in message
> news:b50cb$45b95dc0$4fe73cc$1598(a)DIALUPUSA.NET...
>
>>T Wake wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I am intrigued as to the value of the question though. If I had said
>>>"Yes" would that have made my comments *more* authorative
>>
>>Yes, because you would actually have a grounding on which to
>>base what are, without being Muslim, merely another westerner's
>>opinions.
>
>
> If I was a Muslim all you would get is merely another Muslims opinions.
> There is no priveledged knowlege about the topic that can only be gathered
> by being a member of a broad spectrum religion.

When the initial premise is false, what grows out of it fares no better.

snip useless trivia

>>>(although I have spent more time in the middle east than most Muslims I
>>>know).

>>Career prison guards spend a lot more time in prisons than
>>short term convicts. But they *never* experience or understand
>>what that convict does.

> Very true but it the analogy is not a perfect match.

Still wrong.

>>I've addressed what things look like from the outside. You've
>>negated my opinions as though you had either God's wisdom
>>behind yours, or intimate personal knowledge. I am quite
>>certain now that you have neither.

> Ok. As I have said with pretty much every one of my posts it was simply my
> opinion. If you feel that disagreeing with you (such as when you make
> comments like "Prison is not a deterrent") means I have to have "Gods"
> wisdom then there is nothing I can do about that.

Obfuscation

snip

>>>By saying "No" does that falsify any of my comments?
>>
>>It converts them from an authentic source to speculative
>>opinion.

> I am flattered you once thought my opinions were ever authentic sources.

That's not what I said.

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From: Eeyore on


unsettled wrote:

> T Wake wrote:
>
> > "unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote in message
> >
> >>The never have gotten over Ghandi and their guilt for
> >>their wholesale mistrating of all their colonials for
> >>centuries. There appears to be some British sense that
> >>if they spoil their criminals the government will
> >>finally be better loved around the world. LOL
> >
> >
> > Nonsense.
>
> I didn't actually think you'd get it.

There isn't anything to 'get'.

Graham


From: unsettled on
Eeyore wrote:

>
> unsettled wrote:
>
>
>>T Wake wrote:
>>
>>
>>>"unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote in message
>>>
>>>
>>>>The never have gotten over Ghandi and their guilt for
>>>>their wholesale mistrating of all their colonials for
>>>>centuries. There appears to be some British sense that
>>>>if they spoil their criminals the government will
>>>>finally be better loved around the world. LOL
>>>
>>>
>>>Nonsense.
>>
>>I didn't actually think you'd get it.
>
>
> There isn't anything to 'get'.
>
> Graham

Asperger's spectrum as well, eh? You *are* a mess, boy.