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Old March 18, 2004, 09:42   #61
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Lincoln, What would those decisions be that the state would make for you?
After someone (in this case the state) has most of your money they make the decisions on how to spend your money. These decisions range from how to raise your children to what you can do on your own property.
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Yes, the control of your money is with someone else, that's true, and most of the times you don't agree where the money is spent on.

What do you mean how you raise your children? I don't understand. And what about your property? I can do what I want with it, how does the state have any say or decision making to my property?
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There is a huge social network in the United States (a supposed non socialist country) that dictates how you can raise your kids. They have the power to take your kids at any time if a neighbor complains. You cannot confront the witness that is making the complaint and you can only regain custody of the kids when you alter your methods to comply with what the state determines are appropriate.

The decisions regarding property are in respect to zoning regulations and restrictions on building, cutting down trees and otherwise using your own property. Of course some restrictions are in order but as socialism gains more of a fooothold the restrictions increase and are supported by law. In efect you have to ask permission from the government to use your own property. I am talking about the US here which supposedly is not socialist.
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What is wrong with trying a 'soft' approach? So far the 'hard' approach hasn't worked out very well.

In any case negotiating with terrorists can always buy some time, if nothing else.

Actually, I have a question. More like a thought experiment really. Why is it always presented in such a way, that making a deal with al- quada is impossible? The way I see it continuing in the same mode will only cost more lives.

Say for instance. Ok we will withdraw completely from the Mid east. Give the Palestinians their homeland. And pay the proper price for oil. This would include a new international monetary and financial order.

These 3 things, if they were implemented will have immensely little negative impact on the daily lives of the citizens of the western world. In fact in the long run it would make sense.

I know some might complain that it is unwise to make deals with terrorists. But the argument that giving in to terrorists will only mean more terrorists is not a good one, because combating terrorists also creates more terrorists. Perhaps quite a few more.
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I don't think by core socialism is bad. It doesn't count out the capitalist thinking and implementation.

I would say as far as socialism goes, we do have pretty working system, but it is starting to crumble. I think we could keep some of the socialist ideas, but change the system more that it would generate more money. Generating money is only possible when you have big corporations doing business beyond borders, so that's where we need to put some more light. If we had many more succesful businesses, it could be different situation.

But as for now, there is not enough money and everyone suffers from it. The system is expensive, and if it's not working, there's no value to your system because the benefits of it are non existent, but you still pay for the system. Some ideas of socialism just needs to be dumped, but I think we could still keep the healthcare etc. We just need to step it up, generate money so it would actually work.

Call it capitalism with care.
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Funny how all of America's closest allies have Socialist Governments now...

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Funny how all of America's closest allies have Socialist Governments now...

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The US seems to tolerate socialism when it's not in its own hemisphere more than when it is.
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I know some might complain that it is unwise to make deals with terrorists. But the argument that giving in to terrorists will only mean more terrorists is not a good one, because combating terrorists also creates more terrorists. Perhaps quite a few more.
First, I disagree with negotiating with terrorists. I think the problem would be much worse if terrorists were able to gain negotiations more often.

However, al-Qaeda doesn't really seem to care about negotiating. They just want the West to crawl into a hole. So either you crawl into a whole or you hunt them down and eliminate them.
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There is a huge social network in the United States (a supposed non socialist country) that dictates how you can raise your kids. They have the power to take your kids at any time if a neighbor complains. You cannot confront the witness that is making the complaint and you can only regain custody of the kids when you alter your methods to comply with what the state determines are appropriate.
They only come over and investigate the situation to make sure the kids are safe. If the kids are safe they just go away.
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First, I disagree with negotiating with terrorists. I think the problem would be much worse if terrorists were able to gain negotiations more often.
The war against Muslim hardliners is often referred to as the war on terrorism, but it is really more resembling a low intensity war, not localized to a specific geographical place. So if one accepts that it is a war, and not simply instances of random terrorist acts, then one can view the issue differently.

First, there have in the west been a tendency to consider diplomacy and warfare as seperate issues. Starting with the demand for unconditional surrender during the Second World War everytime the West has intervened the war would not end before the West had achieved all objectives, which, however, would often change over time. This was IMHO a chief reason behind the prolongation of the Vietnam War.

But this 'unconditionality' is really an historical anomaly.
From the Middle ages to the First World War diplomatic agreements have often prevented one side from completely annihilating the other.

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However, al-Qaeda doesn't really seem to care about negotiating. They just want the West to crawl into a hole. So either you crawl into a whole or you hunt them down and eliminate them.
I disagree. Al-Qaeda's chief aim is to reform the political process in the Arab world. Now when the West is attacked, it has been because the West supports the present regimes in the Muslim world.

Actually when the West calls for democratic reform in Arab countries they are actually giving in to al-Qaeda demands, so in a sense there is a diplomatic game going on. The problem is that the Western diplomacy and the current Arab regimes both refuse to take into account the wishes of the fundamentalist
muslims, of whom many are in fact peaceful. But such an approach of ignoring the religious right is hardly democratic, in that in a democracy all views are equally respected, and some sort of consensus is achieved.

So the question is why western leaders seek to shortcircuit the political process, by going over the heads of the Muslim right and yet still seeks to impose political reform on the Arab regimes, which invariably must lead to the Muslim right gaining more influence?

Direct negotiation with the al-Qaeda network would also greatly benefit the ordinary citizen, because it seems to me that there are too many contradictions in the way Western leaders seek to combat terrorism. Most notably in how the rigts of citizens is being eroded. One example is how in the EU far-reaching measures have been taken in violating the privacy of citizens. Yet no substantial measures are being taken in furthering the intelligence sharing among EU member countries. Would it not be logical first to share the intelligence one has, before giving the green light for each state to gather more intelligence on it's own citizens? So what you end up with is a larger amount of information, which is only useful for each member country's own powers of state. This is basicly a mechanism for the containmnet of domestic dissent, and does not help in combating international terrorism in any meaningful sense. But maybe the EU is mostly afraid of terrorism which is specifically anti-EU or anti-state?
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The war against Muslim hardliners is often referred to as the war on terrorism, but it is really more resembling a low intensity war, not localized to a specific geographical place. So if one accepts that it is a war, and not simply instances of random terrorist acts, then one can view the issue differently.

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But this 'unconditionality' is really an historical anomaly.
From the Middle ages to the First World War diplomatic agreements have often prevented one side from completely annihilating the other.



I disagree. Al-Qaeda's chief aim is to reform the political process in the Arab world. Now when the West is attacked, it has been because the West supports the present regimes in the Muslim world.

Actually when the West calls for democratic reform in Arab countries they are actually giving in to al-Qaeda demands, so in a sense there is a diplomatic game going on. The problem is that the Western diplomacy and the current Arab regimes both refuse to take into account the wishes of the fundamentalist
muslims, of whom many are in fact peaceful. But such an approach of ignoring the religious right is hardly democratic, in that in a democracy all views are equally respected, and some sort of consensus is achieved.

So the question is why western leaders seek to shortcircuit the political process, by going over the heads of the Muslim right and yet still seeks to impose political reform on the Arab regimes, which invariably must lead to the Muslim right gaining more influence?

Direct negotiation with the al-Qaeda network would also greatly benefit the ordinary citizen, because it seems to me that there are too many contradictions in the way Western leaders seek to combat terrorism. Most notably in how the rigts of citizens is being eroded. One example is how in the EU far-reaching measures have been taken in violating the privacy of citizens. Yet no substantial measures are being taken in furthering the intelligence sharing among EU member countries. Would it not be logical first to share the intelligence one has, before giving the green light for each state to gather more intelligence on it's own citizens? So what you end up with is a larger amount of information, which is only useful for each member country's own powers of state. This is basicly a mechanism for the containmnet of domestic dissent, and does not help in combating international terrorism in any meaningful sense. But maybe the EU is mostly afraid of terrorism which is specifically anti-EU or anti-state?
I agree we can talk to AQ and reach than agreement with them but the far right wing doesnot like that idear at all. They would rather have than religious war with Islam and they are afraid of the growning number of muslim in the USA and of new convert being make.
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Well communism died in 1991. So who won the cold war sassy tassy?
That remain to be seem as communism might come back.

Islam have some idear of communism and socialism in it religious teaching. Islam ask wealth people in it religious to pay than poor tax of 2.5% of your wealth past than certain level to make it easyier for you to enter heaven with the sinful burden of too much wealth and it help make the poor less envious of the wealth class and lead to than more stable sociery in general.
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How can communism come back as it is illogical? I'm sorry but greed always exists. Greed is not a bad thing.
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The question you should be asking is how a less than intelligent religious fundamentalist is supportive of communism when other less than intelligent religious fundamentalists of his ilk come to the opposite conclusion.
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The question you should be asking is how a less than intelligent religious fundamentalist is supportive of communism when other less than intelligent religious fundamentalists of his ilk come to the opposite conclusion.
There was temple communism way back in man history which wasnot the same as communism of the Soviet Union. The temple saw to fair distr of foods and other material to take care of all member od socierty while preventing social disorder breaking out in societry.

The poor tax was than billiant idear which make the Islamist Empire every stable for along time. While the Roman Empire has many cival wars and major period of social unrest in it history. Serbism start in the 2nd century Roman Empire which by the 7th or 8th century lead to the Serb being bound to the land not slave but not free either more like animal
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I wouldn't say Communism is illogical... it's just stupid because Marx believed that people were inherently good. And quite frankly, that's a bunch of bullshit. People are cruel and evil. A good progressive system needs to take that into account. Communism (despite your belief that Stalinism is Communism) is really about everyone being nice without a central government. Everyone would ideally live in some communial hippy fantasy land. Sorry, that's just not realistic.
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Communism = strong central government

The system I want is a decentralized government with a strong market place. People making the exact same wages around the board is not acceptable.

You're right, it isn't realistic.
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Don't think so. I'm just a poor gay college student.
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