ISIS Takes Control of Mosul

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volprof said:
I agree that Gore would most likely not have made a good president. Honestly, the quality of candidates that both parties have been throwing us over the last decade or so has been troubling. It's like we've lost the concept of a moderate candidate.
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No, honestly I disagree. I think so called "moderate" candidates are the problem these days. You can't placate to both sides of the debate and expect to be a good candidate (although some try)

America is polarized politically. And the centrist voters (like Gramps for example) are a dying breed although some like to say otherwise.
 
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alexmanu said:
You are the typical southern simpleton that ASSERTS and ASSUMES that my level of knowledge on US matters is low on the basis that I'm a foreign national. I think you'll find that I'm well informed on many foreign matters from Australia to India and the US. I enjoy staying informed about foreign affairs, clearly you don't, that's your problem.

Also don't understand the need to link a totally off-topic article accompanied by a statement by you that clearly indicated that YOU don't know British law.
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Hey, don't you be bashing on "southern simpletons," you! This man is from Oklahoma, for Christ's sake! Oklahoma! (Which I'm recently informed is a very unique place, with citizens who think of themselves as "Oklahomans," and not just any sort of trashy "southerner.")

Anyhow, I'm just playing with you, man. Sorry about the loss to Italy today. I was rooting for you all. Good thing is that that was probably the toughest qualifying match and now it's out of the way. Just have to buckle down and win now.
 
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volprof said:
Hey, don't you be bashing on "southern simpletons," you! This man is from Oklahoma, for Christ's sake! Oklahoma! (Which I'm recently informed is a very unique place, with citizens who think of themselves as "Oklahomans," and not just any sort of trashy "southerner.")
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I'm from Tennessee...
 
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Grand Vol said:
No, honestly I disagree. I think so called "moderate" candidates are the problem these days. You can't placate to both sides of the debate and expect to be a good candidate (although some try)

America is polarized politically. And the centrist voters (like Gramps for example) are a dying breed although some like to say otherwise.
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And therein is the problem.
 
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alexmanu said:
Well USAF fly different planes, equipment differs etc. etc. Don't think all USAF pilots could fly in the Red Arrows it's a non-point. Both countries have pretty much equal quality of pilot, entry requirements obviously differ regarding color-blindness.
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Red Arrows? You are right not all could. However, I Adm positive your red arrow boys wouldn't sniff a seat in the T-Birds or Blue Angels. When your country grows up and develops their own technology for a change instead of reproducing ours come talk to me.

Show your superior intellect and please explain colorblindness entry requirements and testing done by the RAF. Bet they are pretty much the same. What do you actually think colorblindness is?
 
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volprof said:
And the fact that you can't see how his presidency was just as bad as this one proves your unabashed, constant bias. I mean, my god, the man presided over an unnecessary war that has cost, according to some estimates, somewhere between 100,000-1,000,000 deaths and also presided over the worst financial crisis we've had since the Depression. But you probably think the damn health care reform is worse than these things, don't you? I agree it's not perfect and needs much amending, but get real.

I may be a dumb academic (which you seem bizarrely obsessed with), but I can at least see the two sides of a coin.
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Function in the real world for a while. A teacher in a subject that many honor students test out of is not where I would go for my views on how the nation is going.
 
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82_VOL_83 said:
Red Arrows? You are right not all could. However, I Adm positive your red arrow boys wouldn't sniff a seat in the T-Birds or Blue Angels. When your country grows up and develops their own technology for a change instead of reproducing ours come talk to me.

Show your superior intellect and please explain colorblindness entry requirements and testing done by the RAF. Bet they are pretty much the same. What do you actually think colorblindness is?
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The Red Arrows wouldn't sniff a seat on the Blue Angels?! HAHAHA.
 
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volprof said:
Hey, don't you be bashing on "southern simpletons," you! This man is from Oklahoma, for Christ's sake! Oklahoma! (Which I'm recently informed is a very unique place, with citizens who think of themselves as "Oklahomans," and not just any sort of trashy "southerner.")

Anyhow, I'm just playing with you, man. Sorry about the loss to Italy today. I was rooting for you all. Good thing is that that was probably the toughest qualifying match and now it's out of the way. Just have to buckle down and win now.
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Prof...I think you meant oklahoMANs who are 40. :p
 
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alexmanu said:
Well USAF fly different planes, equipment differs etc. etc. Don't think all USAF pilots could fly in the Red Arrows it's a non-point. Both countries have pretty much equal quality of pilot, entry requirements obviously differ regarding color-blindness.
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lol

That's all I have to say.
 
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I'm still trying to figure out where this nonsense that you can be a USAF pilot and be color blind came from...

It's an automatic disqualification.
 
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I've really been patiently sitting on the sides lines regarding this thread because this may be "the" (or one of "the") turning points in our current foreign policy that begins to make more Americans realize that we (The US) may not be on the right side of history and may in fact be creating and instigating more problems than we are claiming to want to defuse.
 
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Grand Vol said:
I'm still trying to figure out where this nonsense that you can be a USAF pilot and be color blind came from...

It's an automatic disqualification.
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There are plenty of colorblind pilots in the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Pilots and aspiring pilots have been memorizing the same dot-pattern plates for generations.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
I've really been patiently sitting on the sides lines regarding this thread because this may be "the" (or one of "the") turning points in our current foreign policy that begins to make more Americans realize that we (The US) may not be on the right side of history and may in fact be creating and instigating more problems than we are claiming to want to defuse.
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There is some degree of truth depending on perspective in your post. But I wouldn't necessarily use the Middle East as a litmus test for that sort of thing.

I think Europe and the ongoing crisis in the Ukraine is far more telling of our foreign policy than the Middle East which tends to change governments far more often. And depending on the government in power, can be very friendly or unfriendly depending on the circumstances.
 
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therealUT said:
There are plenty of colorblind pilots in the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Pilots and aspiring pilots have been memorizing the same dot-pattern plates for generations.
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Okay, let me rephrase in saying KNOWN colorblindness is an automatic disqualification for military pilot training.
 
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alexmanu said:
Why? The RAF has always had an extremely high quality of pilot for its entire history as has the USAF. If you need allies, don't disparage your allies.
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FYP.

The US does not require allies, so, we are free to disparage away.

As for the high-quality of pilots, I am going to disagree, categorically. The US has better equipment, better training facilities, and better training programs than any other nation. Add that to the sheer numbers game which provides the US with the capability to be much more selective with regard to who becomes a pilot and, further, who becomes a pilot of which specific aircraft, and the quality is not even close.
 
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therealUT said:
FYP.

The US does not require allies, so, we are free to disparage away.

As for the high-quality of pilots, I am going to disagree, categorically. The US has better equipment, better training facilities, and better training programs than any other nation. Add that to the sheer numbers game which provides the US with the capability to be much more selective with regard to who becomes a pilot and, further, who becomes a pilot of which specific aircraft, and the quality is not even close.
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Well I'm going to have to respectfully disagree. BTW the numbers game point is irrelevant because the size of the USAF and RAF is in proportion with population size and so the ability to be selective is equal for both air forces.

Better equipment and training facilities is probably true but there isn't a huge chasm between the RAF and USAF in this regard and equipment doesn't dictate the quality of a pilot.

Also in terms of the US no NEEDING allies, that is true but when it really comes down to it the UK and any other nuclear armed nation doesn't NEED allies if it came down to it.
 
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alexmanu said:
No, I'm comparing the pilots both of which (Red Arrows and Blue Angels) are of phenomenal quality.
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Any US Navy pilot can capably fly a Hawk, seeing as the Hawk is used as a training machine for carrier landings in the US. Not every RAF pilot can fly a Hornet. Moreover, while it is fun to watch the Red Arrows, they are basically doing their intricate maneuvers in go-carts, while the Blue Angels are doing theirs in F-1 racers.

There are good reasons why the air support provided throughout Iraq and Afghanistan was predominantly provided by the US, even to British ground troops. They are just ****ing better.
 
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