How to Lose an Army

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Maybe if they would quit blowing up things, and spent their time on more positive things like feeding and educating their own people. Im sure we would nuke them.My god.

Who are "they" exactly?

Whack job muslim extremists, Pages are you serious?

[Jenn! 918]

Maybe if they would quit blowing up things, and spent their time on more positive things like feeding and educating their own people. Im sure we would nuke them.My god.

Who are "they" exactly?

Whack job muslim extremists, Pages are you serious?

"I'm sure we would nuke them." Nuke who? That's what she was asking. Your sentences don't make any sense.

[mybackpages 0]

Maybe if they would quit blowing up things, and spent their time on more positive things like feeding and educating their own people. Im sure we would nuke them.My god.

Who are "they" exactly?

Whack job muslim extremists, Pages are you serious?

"I'm sure we would nuke them." Nuke who? That's what she was asking. Your sentences don't make any sense.

Seriously I was trying to understand. I wasn't sure if "they" meant Iraqis in general because of earlier posts. And the use of Nuclear weapons? Wondering who are you targeting there? What about the political and humanitarian fall out from that option?

Marc- your position on how to resolve this conflict is not a viable one. I wonder how serious you are.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

My comments are based on the subject of the thread ! reread and see if you can put it all together.

[Jenn! 918]

My comments are based on the subject of the thread ! reread and see if you can put it all together.

Maybe you can see if you can form some coherent sentences.

[mybackpages 0]

My comments are based on the subject of the thread ! reread and see if you can put it all together.

Maybe you can see if you can form some coherent sentences.

What would I do without my daily dose of dismissive and condescending replies from VJers who disagree with me

[Ban Hammer 13,133]

My comments are based on the subject of the thread ! reread and see if you can put it all together.

Maybe you can see if you can form some coherent sentences.

What would I do without my daily dose of dismissive and condescending replies from VJers who disagree with me

and you're not dismissive and condescending?

[peezey 0]

Basically the point is: they are a proud people going thru some really tough times and to help them we have been messing up with them for a couple of hundred years now...

Maybe if they would quit blowing up things, and spent their time on more positive things like feeding and educating their own people. Im sure we would nuke them.My god.

You really should look some things up before you go off. Before this war, nearly 100% of Iraqis finished University. FOR FREE. Most ME countries pay for their citizens to go to college. Iran is the same. sheesh, what do you think "they" are over there?

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Basically the point is: they are a proud people going thru some really tough times and to help them we have been messing up with them for a couple of hundred years now...

Maybe if they would quit blowing up things, and spent their time on more positive things like feeding and educating their own people. Im sure we would nuke them.My god.

You really should look some things up before you go off. Before this war, nearly 100% of Iraqis finished University. FOR FREE. Most ME countries pay for their citizens to go to college. Iran is the same. sheesh, what do you think "they" are over there?

Im not going off for one! 100% uh.

Level of Education

In the 1970s, an increased focus on education had a significant effect on the level of education among all children, especially for girls. Conversely, the drop in the level of education during the last years has had a considerable effect on the education of both girls and boys, but boys have been relatively more affected.

While 30% of women above 15 years in Baghdad have never been enrolled or not completed elementary education, the numbers are twice as high among women in the north.

64% of rural women above 15 years have not completed elementary education, indicating a low level of education.

Presently 40% of the girls in rural areas are not enrolled in primary education, compared to 20% in urban areas.

The national level for illiteracy in women is 47%.

50% of women in the rural areas are illiterate versus 30% of women in the urban areas.

40% of women in Dahouk, Erbil, Dhiqar, Al-Muthana, Wasit, Salahuldin, Altamim, and Suleimaniya are completely illiterate

The average level of literacy among women in all age groups is 53%. More troubling is the low literacy rate for women between 15 and 24 years.

Link:http://www.iq.undp.org/ILCS/women.htm

47% illiterate? going to university and cant read or write? No wonder its FREE!

Edited December 22, 2006 by CarolsMarc

[Ban Hammer 13,133]

Basically the point is: they are a proud people going thru some really tough times and to help them we have been messing up with them for a couple of hundred years now...

Maybe if they would quit blowing up things, and spent their time on more positive things like feeding and educating their own people. Im sure we would nuke them.My god.

You really should look some things up before you go off. Before this war, nearly 100% of Iraqis finished University. FOR FREE. Most ME countries pay for their citizens to go to college. Iran is the same. sheesh, what do you think "they" are over there?

i'd like to see a source for that. i'm having a difficult time believing that nearly 100% of iraqis finished university.

[mawilson 2,133]

My comments are based on the subject of the thread ! reread and see if you can put it all together.

Marc, Jenn has a point.

More often than not, your train of thought gets derailed before it reaches the station.

You'd say things like

Maybe if they would quit blowing up things, and spent their time on more positive things like feeding and educating their own people.

which is a perfectly valid conditional predicate and would make perfect sense had you actually finished the sentence with a subject, as in

"Maybe if they did this and that, something would happen"

but instead you end the sentence with a period and add a nonsensical

Im sure we would nuke them.My god.

Nuke who? Why?

[mybackpages 0]

Im not going off for one! 100% uh.

Let me try to help clarify peezy's point. Of the Iraqis who enter the university, they finish. Of course there is a poverty problem in Iraq and not everyone has access to the educational system 100% The literacy rate is misleading however if you are using it to prove the point that Iraqis are uneducated.

Illiteracy is usually found among rural and poor urban families. This is an economic problem which has social consequences. Nothing about the war in Iraq is solving this problem. In fact i would suggest it only has exacberated the problem.

[Peikko 1,575]

Ooh, are we going to try to illiminate the entire Middle East? Or just the populations thereof? What a perfect Christmas present for the West.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

U.S. airlines are bankrupt largely due to poor business strategies; when they follow better strategies (Southwest), they succeed.

True--many US airlines don't seem to have changed business practices from their formation time.

In comparison to other societies.... it's really hard to say, given that quite a lot of 'Western' advances -- philosophy, mathematics (hence the algebra crack, charles), architecture, astronomy, agriculture -- were filtered through Middle-Eastern sources. That's only going back about 600 years. And if we're playing misery poker with religious warfare, the West isn't in much of a better position, even discounting the evangelical bent of the U.S. armed forces.

Mathematics -- originally from Harappa

Gridded town planning -- Harappa

FYI, Harappa is NOT in the Middle East but near modern Faisalabad (called "Lyallpur" prior to 1975). Nevermind, I guess that ME was a conduit due to geographical location between South Asia and "West" (Greece, Italy).

Hell, we owe the Middle-East for COFFEE.

Native to Ethiopia (known as 'Kush' in ancient times)

[peezey 0]

Im not going off for one! 100% uh.

Let me try to help clarify peezy's point. Of the Iraqis who enter the university, they finish. Of course there is a poverty problem in Iraq and not everyone has access to the educational system 100% The literacy rate is misleading however if you are using it to prove the point that Iraqis are uneducated.

Illiteracy is usually found among rural and poor urban families. This is an economic problem which has social consequences. Nothing about the war in Iraq is solving this problem. In fact i would suggest it only has exacberated the problem.

Thanks, lesson learned...clarity flies out the window when responding to something with too much teeth clenching.