Post: #51

(06-07-2017 10:52 PM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:  So far not a single answer has been anything other than childish "could've, would've, should've" whining.

Scott Adams had an excellent metaphor regarding the Comey hearings, "Just as human beings find it really easy to memorize seven numbers, and very difficult to memorize nine numbers, the Comey situation is just a little too complicated for most people to fully understand. So they only focus on parts of it, using confirmation bias, to make themselves feel like they understand it all."

Thanks to N. N. Taleb, I agree with most of the facts about Saudi Arabia. Their Salafi/Wahhabi interpretation of Islam is fundamentalist, expansionist, and may have already been used against the United States during the 9/11 attack. Taleb's solution is to declare Salifism/Wahhabism "not really a religion, but really a political ideology" to counter-argue that an attack on them is a "war against Islam".

That, my friends, is a 30-digit number. And the 7-digit reduction is "You're fighting a war against Islam itself. Your country nominally supports religious freedom, while militarily destroying the religious freedom of Saudi Arabia, if not even more Muslim nations."

Unless 85% (minimum!) of the House, Congress, Media, and General Public already supports the 30-digit argument, there's no way to move from the 7-digit one to the 30-digit one.

No way in hell.

And Keith Ellison (Muslim runner-up in the battle for the head of the Democratic National Committee) would have a fucking field day.

Not to mention Linda Sarasour.

Post: #52

This thread seems more a discussion about middle eastern politics rather than what actually happened.

In any case, there is now a wikipedia page on this event, for guys who want to read the "official version" of what actually happened.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Tehran_attacks



From that page:

Quote:On 7 June 2017, two terrorist attacks were simultaneously carried out by seven terrorists belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) against the Iranian Parliament building and the Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini, both in Tehran, Iran, leaving 17 civilians dead and 43 wounded. The shootings were the first terrorist attacks in Tehran in more than a decade, and the first major terror attack in the country since the 2010 Zahedan bombings.

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Post: #53

Senator Dana Rohrabacher PRAISES ISIS' attack in Tehran, suggests the US & Trump should back ISIS.

Post: #54

(06-11-2017 08:49 PM)AManLikePutin Wrote:  Senator Dana Rohrabacher PRAISES ISIS' attack in Tehran, suggests the US & Trump should back ISIS.

Disgusting.

Post: #55

(06-12-2017 03:22 AM)BoiBoi Wrote:  

(06-11-2017 08:49 PM)AManLikePutin Wrote:  Senator Dana Rohrabacher PRAISES ISIS' attack in Tehran, suggests the US & Trump should back ISIS.

Disgusting.

Who's the state sponsor of terror now? Sack of garbage, everything wrong with our current political system.

Glad to see the other two senators(?) shutting him down.