No, and I don't want to look for one in the future. Why? Because most women I encounter these days are narcissist and narcissistic women repulsed me.

Ah... the joy of singlehood.

2. Insurgents/Taliban/Terrorists have a virtual safehaven inside Pakistan. Plan: We can't go in and invade Pakistan- that would be disastrous and the terrain would be too difficult, this would result in high casualties and would destabilize Pakistan and trigger anti-American sentiment. We should use airstrikes and sometimes special ops troops to attack Terrorist leaders inside Pakistan and to strike terror training camps.whipassmt

The U.S. ceased carrying out airstrikes inside Pakistan after its missile killed 11 Pakistani soldiers. Since Pakistan is already reeling from the deaths of its 11 soldiers, any new U.S. airstrikes inside Pakistani territory would have severe political repercussions for the U.S.-Pakistan relations. Therefore, it's not worth the risk.

3. Iran allegedly arms the Taliban (they don't like each other, the U.S. is a common enemy). Plan: This is not sufficient reason to attack Iran, that would just make things worse. (the only reason to attack them would be if they were about to get a nuke or if they attacked the U.S. or an ally). I would use strict unilateral and multilateral sanctions against Iran in order to hurt their economy and weaken their purchasing power so that they can't afford to give weapons to the Taliban. In the meanwhile we may have to just deal with this.whipassmt

I find it hard to believe that Iran is arming its arch-foe to kill the coalition troops and I disagree with the notion that "the enemy of my enemy..." applys to Iran (they almost went to war with the taliban after killing their Iranian diplomats). In fact, according to the reports from NATO and Afghan forces, the talibans were buying the weapons on the black market out of the opium money. NATO even dismiss the allegations that Iran is supplying arms to the taliban. And considering the fact that the Karzai government is friendly with Iran, the last thing Iran would want to ally with the taliban is to jeopardize its friendly relationship with the Karzai government and Iran needs them to counteract the taliban's influence as it posed a threat to the Iranian regime.

Or we can just increase the number of troops to the numbers we had after 9/11, before we redirected most of them to Iraq. The Surge worked in Iraq, there's no reason it shouldn't there.

elblanquito_81

I take it that you're going to advocate cutting deals with the taliban groups. In case you don't know, the success of the surge in Iraq was largely due to U.S.'s deals with the sunni militia groups (Awakening Councils) and Sadr's ceasefire, which led to a large reduction in violence in Iraq so don't get the impression that the extra addition of troops played a role in the reduction of violence because it is not.

[QUOTE="lewiscl"][QUOTE="GamePrincess88"]

[QUOTE="ferrari2001"]Because people find it offensive, Men are built a heck of alot different than a woman is. GamePrincess88

Who does?

Exactly. But we are a secular nation, not Iran.

Just because it's a secular nation doesn't necessarily mean they embrace topless women. Even some people who value secularism will find them offensive.

[QUOTE="CynicalPundit"][QUOTE="buxboy"]

Islam is ridiculous. Living in the 8th century really makes sense. Let's just fore-go all modern conveniences so we can go to heaven.

Yeah, the irony is just great here.

Calabi_Yau

Must be very convenient for you to be typing comfortably from your secluded place, tarnishing Islam without fear of rebuttal. Maybe if you have the balls to say it directly to the muslims in public, I might take your comments seriously. Otherwise, stop wasting your time making veiled anti-Islamic remarks on this forum. It's unnecessary and unwarranted.

I love how you don't even have a counter-point, and instead of coming up witha decent argument you merely attack him in the way (ironically enough) you claim he attacked Muslims.

Quite frankly the 'balls and say in front o people' yabber is useless. Obviously the person would dislike you for it; but does that prove anything? I mean these people blindly support the system that he is commenting on negatively, and would responde as such. However, that does not make his point any less significant.

So, how do you justify heinous and outdated acts? I decry them regardless of the party executing said codes.

First of all, you didn't read the first part of buxboy's post (he's atacking the religion, not the system). Second, he has a prior history of making derogatory comments about Islam and you can verify my claims by looking at his post history. Lastly, I agree that these heinous acts are unjustifiable which have no place in the modern world. Even some ayatollahs have spoken out against the practice and argues that the Quran made no mention of stoning nor does it endorse such act. However, the issue I had with buxboy is that he is using stoning with the pretense of vilifying Islam when he should be criticizing the system itself and he has failed to make such criticsim.

Islam is ridiculous. Living in the 8th century really makes sense. Let's just fore-go all modern conveniences so we can go to heaven.

Yeah, the irony is just great here.

buxboy

Must be very convenient for you to be typing comfortably from your secluded place, tarnishing Islam without fear of rebuttal. Maybe if you have the balls to say it directly to the muslims in public, I might take your comments seriously. Otherwise, stop wasting your time making veiled anti-Islamic remarks on this forum. It's unnecessary and unwarranted.

This is according to the Muslim Islamic religion.CruxisXIII

Stoning has nothing to do with Islam as this method is not mentioned nor prescribed in the Quran.

EDIT: Seeing that you're a Jewish, you might be surprised to know that stoning was actually originated in the Torah. Considering the fact that stoning was prevalent in the Judaic times, it's no wonder why it has influenced the Muslims to adopt stoning punishment even though it contradicts Quran Legislation and Islam. Had the Jews not invented stoning, the muslims would have not embraced it in the first place. And I'm sure those people facing death today would receive less harsh sentences (i.e. hanging, which is a quick and painless death).