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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cage Rattler who wrote (11048)	4/13/2009 6:36:16 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Re: "Genghis Kahn did know how to deal with Islamists, now didn't he? Where is Subadi when you need him? :^)" Well... whether he started out with good strategic and tactical skills in dealing with the many different cultures and religions and peoples of his time, (or if he leaned on Subadi for that wise advice), one common tactic that he came to adopt was that he offered religious freedom and (relative) tolerance for different religions among the lands and peoples that he conquered. (That he might have even been a baptized Christian - his mother was reported to be - one of the earliest in Asian lands, is one of the more intriguing puzzles of history. :-) Re: "Why is my an referral to Hitler and Stalin an incomprehensible comparison to you???" Nothing at all 'incomprehensible' about a referral to either Hitler or Stalin... it just seems wildly hallucinatory to claim that "President Obama is (trying to) set into motion and accomplish what Hitler and Stalin could not, the irreversible crippling of America." LOL! Re: "Planned sites for the successful mid-range system were canceled...." Well... how 'successful' that particular system is or is not is still a bit of an open question in my book (as also is the question of 'is it a cost/effective defense program' compared to other programs....) Still, it would seem that at least TWO OTHER missile defense programs saw significant increases in their budgeting....