mattiasNYC said:
Quite frankly I stopped caring about your thin skin a while ago. You don't have a problem being cheeky yourself, so whatever. Additionally, you voted those xenophobia peddling nutcases into the white house, and you're not the one on the receiving end of that xenophobia, so forgive me if my compassion is running low these days (that plus I spent two days mixing a special for CNN on the music vs. the US civil rights movement, with a focus on MLK, so I'm in a pissy mood).
Yup, must be my fault... BTW MLK was a great man.
Who cares about what you think about that when you don't want to talk about the most important and damaging conflict in the mid-east since the second world war in the first place!?
I thought global warming was the most important thing? (cheeky?)
OK seriously "most damaging?
According to wiki 75,000-85,000 casualties in Arab-Iraeli conflict and that covers conflicts with Israel and 8-10 different countries.
The north Yemen civil war (62-70) claimed 100,000-200,000 casualties
Kurdish-Turkish conflict (still ongoing) 30,000-100,000 casualties
Iran-Iraq war (80-88) 1M to 1,25M casualties
1991 uprising in Iraq 50,000-100,000 casualties
Iraq war (2003-2011) 110,000-650-000 casualties
Syrian Civil war 250,000-470,000 casualties
This list ignores the numerous conflicts with lesser numerical casualties, and the millions of casualties from conflicts prior to WWII.
Something tells me that you are ok with this colonization. Hey, as long as it's the right people at the receiving end of this crap it's something that's "complicated"..... Let's just talk about ISIS instead, something everyone can agree on......
I don't think ISIS agrees...
STOP trying to put words in my mouth, and stop poking me, I don't want to wrestle with you about Israel and neighbors now (we have discussed that here before, I doubt replaying it will change your mind or mine) .
Perhaps the personal criticism is a troll-like strategy (I'm not calling you a troll) to get me angry enough to engage. Not how to make me receptive to listening to you.
JR
PS: I always find discussions are calmer when talking about facts and not speculating about what each other "thinks".