More and more crises

[JohnR]

Interesting points.

Be sure to have your ad blockers on (obviously you leave them off at S-B )

http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/...teenth-crisis/

Ishaan Tharoor argues in the Washington Post there are 7 crises in the Middle East as important, or more important, than president Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. ”Removed from the bluster in Washington, the Middle East’s most vexing challenges have little to do with Iran’s capacity to build a nuclear weapon … here’s what is far more of a problem.”

1. The Syria endgame
2. The spread of the Islamic State
3. The war in Yemen
4. Turkey’s renewed civil war
5. Failing, corrupt governments
6. The zombie afterlife of the two-state solution
7. The Egyptian political tragedy

Not everyone may agree with Tharoor’s enumeration, but it’s a pretty good list. It’s not complete, Had he cast his eyes beyond the Middle East, Tharoor might have added to his heptalog:

8. The war in Ukraine
9. Chinese expansion in Asia
10. The fraying and fragmenting of the European union
11. The spread of Islamic fundamentalism through North and Sub-Saharan Africa;
12. The growing danger of a global economic crisis.

[Nebe]

A lot of Americans would have you believe that the crisis is their God vs our God. Mexicans taking our jobs. Fags ruining the sanctity of marriage. Murika!!!!!
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[JohnR]

Originally Posted by Nebe

A lot of Americans would have you believe that the crisis is their God vs our God. Mexicans taking our jobs. Fags ruining the sanctity of marriage. Murika!!!!!
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True, and with a lot of people getting their news from the Daily Show or from Facebook.

Thing is, there is a big blue world out there with a lot of bad guys playing chess. We're playing Caitlin and the Kardashians.

Is this the world you want your son to be a late teenager to come into within a handful of years?

[Jackbass]

Originally Posted by Nebe

A lot of Americans would have you believe that the crisis is their God vs our God. Mexicans taking our jobs. Fags ruining the sanctity of marriage. Murika!!!!!
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So it's the right or left dividing the country?


As far as the Middle East goes? Who knows? Seriously, the place is as stable as sand on a beach. You have a devout religious following, all claiming to follow the same prophet but they all want to blow each other off the planet. Forget about Christians or Jews. We think the PC police are sensitive here. You speak in the wrong accent over there and you could wind up a YouTube star.
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[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by JohnR

True, and with a lot of people getting their news from the Daily Show or from Facebook.

Thing is, there is a big blue world out there with a lot of bad guys playing chess. We're playing Caitlin and the Kardashians.

Is this the world you want your son to be a late teenager to come into within a handful of years?

"Thing is, there is a big blue world out there with a lot of bad guys playing chess"

We are currently projecting weakness, which is provocative to some of those bad guys.

"Is this the world you want your son to be a late teenager to come into within a handful of years"

Scary. And you didn't even mention the looming crisis from our debt and unfunded entitlements. Scary. Makes me wish I made more of my career decisions centered around money, so that I could better insulate my kids from the terrifying realities that may play out.

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

Scary. And you didn't even mention the looming crisis from our debt and unfunded entitlements. Scary. Makes me wish I made more of my career decisions centered around money, so that I could better insulate my kids from the terrifying realities that may play out.

I know. It is unconscionable how bad things are and people just keep pointing fingers while kicking the can down the road.

But as I say from time to time, everyone will be equal under the new Chinese Overlords.

[The Dad Fisherman]

Originally Posted by Jackbass

So it's the right or left dividing the country?

Yes

[spence]

I don't think the crisis are necessarily increasing, it's more the longer trend cycles are just exposing issues buried since the cold war.

[justplugit]

Originally Posted by spence

I don't think the crisis are necessarily increasing, it's more the longer trend cycles are just exposing issues buried since the cold war.

You can just kick the can down the road so long before it's
too late to save it. So many opportunities to root out the problems
missed because of politics and agendas that were not the best for
the American people.
Lets keep concentrating on the important stuff, like gay marriage, etc. etc. etc.

Stupid.