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Mr_Jefferson_24 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 04:15 PM
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Poll question: In September of last year Russia apparently successfully...
Edited on Thu Oct-09-08 04:16 PM by Mr_Jefferson_24
...tested a massive thermobaric weapon (bomb) and made no secret of it:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6990815.stm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oFfuK2wSUg

Do you believe they're purpose in doing this was primarily to send a message to the U.S.?

And secondly, do you think Putin is correct that the U.S. has become a rogue nation?
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endarkenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 04:19 PM
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1. And furthermore
the development of conventional military threat parity by China Russia and others would be a good thing. It would end the bullshit bully-ism idiocy that has been our foreign policy since Gulf Farce I, culminating in the conquest and permanent occupation of Iraq.
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Mr_Jefferson_24 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 05:10 PM
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2. I view military parity as a potentially stabilizing development too...
Edited on Thu Oct-09-08 05:14 PM by Mr_Jefferson_24
...but this unfortunately carries with it the assumption that at least some semblance of sanity, some baser instinct for self preservation, will influence the foreign policy decisions of the U.S./Israeli alliance -- I worry that this is not a safe assumption.

And where McCain is concerned, I know it is not a safe assumption.
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Mr_Jefferson_24 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 07:31 PM
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3. Kick for a larger sample.
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Mr_Jefferson_24 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 08:30 PM
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4. Kick for a larger sample.
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Mr_Jefferson_24 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 10:32 PM
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5. Kick for a larger sample.
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rockymountaindem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 10:38 PM
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6. Yes and no
Yes, because they probably wanted to send a message after we tested our own MOAB bomb, and no about the rogue state thing.
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Mr_Jefferson_24 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 12:14 AM
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7. Kick for a larger sample.
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