Why not some viets had a French writer, author, philosopher as one of their main Saints.

I can think of three specific airplanes. Something like that was tried on one. Nothing apparently was done on the others. And all they had was box cutters. The passengers had armament and protection against that level of threat all around. In the infantry about ten percent actually do the killing. Where you going to get 584.7 together in one spot. In the military most of the legal restrictions are removed. No worries. In civilian life most restrictions aren't known but feared. It isn't 1900 any more. And these are not the kind of people who would make it on the frontier - After all they elected King George the III and IVth on cue!

Different area FFA brought up how it affected USA. The end of that comment is the Jihadis are using standard terrorism as a revolutionary weapon. Europe was excused for a while by paying off the Jihadis....Meanwhile they welcomed the invaders into the target area. Blackmailers only stay bought until the next payment comes due. Europe is also more fragmented. EU and Nato possibly but they don't provide the glue and some of Europe will join in for their own reasons. Did the Catalonians ever get a separate country status? Short of participating (by some) in the middle east adventures of recent times most of their military is not blooded....It's wait and see and wait and see how long before 9/11 returns in it's new cycle. Target, technique, tactics, all of it....whichever it will be full of civilians and largely unprotected. That is the one common denominator but where, when, how? There are so many from which to choose. Jihadi's are however big on symbolism. they passed up their most lucrative target - while Tom Clancy did not - the last time.

Or not occurred. Adolf might have considered his western flank secured. The remaining sticking point was the Polish/UK mutual defense treaty but Chamberlain might have had one last hurrah on that one. Hind sight is a wonderful thing..Hitler's Armies, intact versus Russia without US support of Stalin.....hmmmm. Two monsters joining? Might be better off the way it went. DeGaulle was also disliked by my much of the French Military... two minuses equal a plus?

Two points and a question If income tax were replaced with an end user consumption tax what would you do for a living? I often wonder why not ask those we assume would be on the unemployment rolls if that is a fair statement. How would you adjust your profession to suit a new system? Including change over to actual up and running? If you want make a new discussion out of it using the button in the top right or bottom right corners.

Never forgetting the other wing is the right wing of the left as Hillary's is the extreme left wing of the left. Still the same one party one focus (government over people) system of government.

The opposite for the uninitiated or unaware is Citizens Over Government as temporary employees.

Good post. the In'shallah attitude never built a supper much less a nation. In Mexico it' s called Ni Modo for no way. But that's pretty much limited to Mondays and is a direct result of Saturday as a regular work day. Ni Modo or San Lunes day is a day of recovery...Notice I don't say that as a joke or laughing. It's a major cultural difference. The answer to it is ni modo ni moneday no work no pay. IF there is a regular job involved. Lots of people willing to work. some hold down two to five jobs or types of income earning per family member.... one the othere hand we just opened a new orphanage three now in my major hang out area. number one cause...abandoned kids where the father went north and never returned or just said ni modo and became single again. Divorce not that hard and there is no such thing as child support yet. Cultural differences.....up north of the border they get welfare and trade it for drugs. kids are still abandoned.

The cultural differences though are far far less than those found in Euro-Afro-Asia the Easter Hemisphere and many within a few kilometers of each other. Still we manage to build our own Gazas but we call them barrios or Washington DC.