Intervention a form of foreign aid?

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  1. walle

    walle Minimodder

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    Only if you equate the religion of Islam, with terrorism.
     
  2. Krazeh

    Krazeh Minimodder

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    I dunno, the comment also makes sense if you equate religion with the belief in something with zero evidence to back it up.
     
  3. steveo_mcg

    steveo_mcg What's a Dremel?

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    faugusztin I believe was commenting that Dwarfers posts tend to be his opinion which is completely unsupported by fact... Faith.
     
  4. Dwarfer

    Dwarfer What's a Dremel?

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    Seriously, what are you the internet grammar police!
     
  5. longweight

    longweight Possibly Longbeard.

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    Is that badly worded question or statement?

    Basic spelling and grammar will lend a lot of weight to your argument. If you never use punctuation and dont spell properly then people are much less likely to take you seriously and you're argument will have much less effect I mean who wants to read a whole paragraph without any punctuation
     
  6. asura

    asura jack of all trades

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    -ok, bad troll.

    I think it depends on how you define aid. Is it sacks of rice dumped out of Red Cross trucks to feed the starving or to be liberated by petty gangsters? Is it monetary donations to a friendly government with conditions on how it is to be spent, which are promptly ignored or corrupted? Is it a military intervention to remove an oppressive regime on behalf of it's mass population, which causes long term religious and political instability and a continuing violance?

    In other words, is it anything which benefits the majority, or do we have to be more specific about things?
     
  7. longweight

    longweight Possibly Longbeard.

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    Intervention is clearly designed to be foreign aid and it would be impossible to determine whether it will improve most situations for the better, what are the other choices?

    As a nation we do sometimes have to make selfish decisions that will have a negative impact on other nations. I don't agree with it but then I don't see what the alternative is.
     
  8. thehippoz

    thehippoz What's a Dremel?

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    yeah well most here know what I have to say.. some may agree- I actually liked your take on the monkeys and how the irish monkey roid raged into human form way before the others, or something close to that but it made sense and was a possibility :p the life just happening I will probably never agree with though- because it's practically impossible.. that's not just me saying that either

    statements like krazehs don't make sense to me.. atypical blinders- you need to look and the evidence is there.. unless you want to discount many first hand eye witnesses on both sides

    form your own opinion is all.. if you end up in monkeytown then at least you know wth your talking about :thumb:
     
  9. Krazeh

    Krazeh Minimodder

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    That's some good advice you really should take onboard. Practice what you preach and all that.
     
  10. thehippoz

    thehippoz What's a Dremel?

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    hey it's easy when you know it all.. what can I say.. now it's time for some teabaggin
     
  11. longweight

    longweight Possibly Longbeard.

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    I have no idea what your arguments are, could you state them in a few single sentence bullet points?
     
  12. Nexxo

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    /quietly sneaks off...
     
  13. DXR_13KE

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    Ow no!

    /Gets the f*** out.
     
  14. Blazza181

    Blazza181 SVM PLACENTA CASEI

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    That teabagging is a form of foreign aid.

    /leaps off the nearest ledge

    Sent from my Orange San Francisco using Tapatalk
     
  15. Dwarfer

    Dwarfer What's a Dremel?

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    Considering it didn't have a question mark, you should take it as a statement!
     
  16. asura

    asura jack of all trades

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    In which case the "What are" should be removed and "you" should be capitalised.

    On a more serious note; quality of life is a difficult thing to measure; is there average life expencancy data from before and after interventions? Probably not, that would be a possible piece of evidence to weigh intervention as aid as improvement...

    What else have we got to use; average income/spending, national spending/debt, size of police/armed-forces, how do we judge the supposed improvement - and how do we weight our data?
     
  17. Dwarfer

    Dwarfer What's a Dremel?

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    Tell someone who cares what YOU think!
     
  18. specofdust

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    Ok folks, back on topic or the funhouse closes for the night.
     
  19. longweight

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    You worded it as a question and then failed to punctuate it as such.
     
  20. Dwarfer

    Dwarfer What's a Dremel?

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    Who gives a **** you sad *******!
     

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