State Departments in all countries are full of pussys.

GBR and US have troops in Iraq. US and GBR wants Turkey in the EU. GBR and US prepare new war in Iran, but do not want to give the impression it is for racist/cultural/religious reasons.

On the other hand, and without GBR's participiation, today presidents from seven european countries have united and condemend Muslim reaction to the practicing of freedom of speech, while chancellor Merkel got adressed by Ahmadinejadh, saying that as a woman that she is she better should not open her mouth. yesterday Merkel had a short but sharp exchange of words with Iran's envoy to the Munich conference for security, and indirectly compared Ahmadinejadh to the Nazis.

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/inte...398717,00.html


Because the idea that a journalist would dare to write anything that is not supported by the government, or that he might survive if he did, is completely foreign to them. The fact that the Danish government has not executed the journalist is, to them, obvious proof that the Danish government is behind this.


This case reminds me of a speech by Bush.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...0010920-8.html
"They hate our freedoms -- our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other."
He was right, if you take this out of context. Of course, when reading the whole speech, he was wrong, because he was only referring to the terrorists. The problem is bigger than that.

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :lurk:

http://www.alghurabaa.co.uk/articles/new/cartoon.htm
http://www.alghurabaa.co.uk/articles...e%20Police.htm

Years ago, while we stayed in a small camp in an oasis in Western Egypt, there was a dog that strayed around our camp, it was not the first dog I have seen, they belong to the villages there like sand to the desert, but this one acted strange and had some sort of froth at it's snout, and somehow I did not like it's eyes. It came closer and closer, moved backwards, approached again, this time some more closer, and so it went for half an hour. Then, with a sad heart, I put together my bow, it seemed to feel what was coming and moved backwards again, but I shot it dead. I did not want to risk that that dog was sick, maybe had rabbies, and someone of us four would get bitten. I buried it together with the arrow, did not want to risk infection from it. This was the only time so far that I have intentionally killed a living creature. I did not like it, but I also did not feel too bad. It was the right thing to do, in that situation.

This story comes often to my mind when reading such "Mist".

When one nation establishes an embassy/diplomatic mission, it is with the host nation's endorsement. That endorsement makes the embassy/diplomatic mission "quests" of that host nation. The host nation is obligated to protect it's guests, regardless of the source of the threat.

Failure to do so does constitutes "An Act of War".

At the very least, all western nations should send a signal to these poor host nations and recall their embassies/diplomatic missions in full. Leave no one behind.

As a true sign, last man out demolishes the embassy complex, we're not coming back!

Oh yeah and declare their embassys/diplomatic missions "Persona non grata", you have 24 hours to leave!

Well the thing is that technically, attacking the embassies with or without protection from the home nation IS an act of war regardless of the circumstances because embassies are viewed in the modern world as territories of the nation they belong to (i.e. technically, the US embassy in Moscow is American soil, just like the Russian embassy in DC is Russian soil). Thus, when the embassies are attacked, the nations that own them are attacked, and therefore the attack constitutes an act of war.

an end...have a nice day. :)

Paulus to Saulus....Skybird sometimes you crack me up lol. :)

see above post... have a nice day. :)

This is actually the funniest thing I have heard all day on NPR - These guys are reacting violently at the dipiction of Mohhamed as a violent figure!

"Mohammed is not violent! Burn down their embassys for that statement!!!"

I lauged for about 5 min straight. This has got to be a classic to add for the rest of history into the journal of the most hypocritical and stupid ideas of all time!

-S

In Iran yesterday they attacked the Austrian embassy with firebombs, now tonight they are attacking the Danish embassy with firebombs and trying to get in.

Advice to all embassy's closed due to hot heads that may help them not to be attacked or :huh:

I wonder how much of all this "popular anger" is spontanious. Most Muslim countries are dictatorships, where popular demonstrations are either organised or brutally suppressed. And the weird thing is that these drawings were made months ago, in September 2005.
Now I hate unfounded conspiracy theories ("The Kursk was sunk by the Dallas", "Bush flew the planes into the WTC himself", "Osama Bin Laden is actually defending Islam") but I have the idea that some radical Muslim states like Syria and Iraq could well profit from all this.
Syria desperately needs international support after being castigated for its subversive terror campaqign against progressive Lebanese politicians and journalists. Iraq just got the message that the big 5 nationa voted to bring its breach of the non-proliferation treaty - as established by the International Atomic Enercy Commission - on the agenda of the Security Council.
What better way to drum up support from the - often oil-rich - Muslim nations (and energy depending nations!) but by "defending Islam against the infidels"?

I think you mean Iran instead of Iraq Abraham but yeah I was thinking the same thing. :yep:

Danish, Swedish ...
 

You're absolutely right, Konovalov.

I don't see how encouraging your people to burn an embassy would endear you to anyone. The oil-rich countries are islamic as well, yet they aren't all that offended, and aren't reacting in that way...

And I don't see how Saudi Arabia might push the US - Or any western country - against Scandinavia over some cartoons. Burning embassy will not get you on anyone's sympathy list - Diplomats are supposed to be sacred.

If there was agitation, I'd look more toward countries that might have interest in sending troop into Syria and Iran to calm an insurection.