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11 hours ago, TrustMe said:

He was a pacifist, you can't have a country run by a pacifist.

Most pacifists are only pacifists up to the point where their enemies are vulnerable. 

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8 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Im a lifelong lover of Hot Dogs, but there is nothing wrong with the Mushy pea, particularly when its with fish.

Do not like hot dogs, or coconut. Peas are best steamed or nuked{microwaved} with a few pearl onions.  

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6 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Had mushy peas with Smoked Haddock and chips last night. Most pleasing.

There's a reason God quarantined y'all on a rainy island. Think of the Channel as God's Moat protecting French cuisine. 

 

 

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5 hours ago, JWB said:

Isn't all of that caused by the durkas who flooded into the UK over the last few decades?

If I'm honest, quite a lot of it was triggered by Corbyns ascendancy to leadership of Labour. We have had Muslims in the UK for 200 years, but this is a new thing.

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The narrative mechanism was build by western media still in Soviet times and along the lines that if don't have tanks and aircraft you are oppressed. 

Recent ISIS existence - without tanks or aircraft -  did not clear their minds because it was never an honest appraisal. We even have seen leftist mainstream media entitling one of their leaders as "austere religious scholar".

"Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48."

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Im sorry to say, I think the US endorsed that position. Remember the US didnt exactly do much to help the British or French in their wars of decolonization, and many of the countries we ended up dumping (Indo China, Aden) ended up being an even worse problem for the US. For the US, everyone who wanted to throw off their colonialist shackles was George Washington.

Its easy to blame the media for positions that were endorsed from the Top.

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6 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Its easy to blame the media for positions that were endorsed from the Top.

Depending on the timeframe involved, your assumed cause/effect relationship may be backwards at times. 

These days, with the seemingly infinite amount of money required to maintain political power, foreign policy towards some regions may be cooked up by an informal collection of pols, pressies, and large institutional investors ready and willing to play in the swamp for an extra 5% annual ROI. 

 

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And English blasphemy laws...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12633731/Guardian-sacks-cartoonist-Steve-Bell-anti-Semitic-Benjamin-Netanyahu-cartoon.html

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Artist Steve Bell says he has been sacked by The Guardian over claims that a new cartoon linked to Israel was 'anti-Semitic'.

The cartoonist, who has worked for the Left-wing newspaper for more than 40 years, claims he has been told it is no longer willing to publish his work after he submitted a controversial image of Benjamin Netanyahu.

In the picture, the Israeli prime minister wears boxing gloves and holds a scalpel over his exposed belly, readying a cut in the shape of Gaza, with the caption: 'Residents of Gaza, get out now.' 

Critics have taken this to be a reference to Shylock, the Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice who demands a 'pound of flesh' from someone who cannot pay him back.

Mr Bell has defended the image and decried accusations that he used anti-Semitic tropes – although it is not the first time he has faced these claims. 

From the same cartoonist: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cartoon/2010/sep/17/pope-benedict-xvi-gay-rights

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