Gareth

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  1. Oh, god, I'm just fucking with you. In this internet enabled age, with this global society, WWIII is all but impossible. The future of war is picking on second world countries that get too uppity.

    Okay good, I just get really peeved at people who automatically jump to war as the result of every single incident. It's these people with no comcept of history that don't realize that war is the exception, not the norm.

  2. Crazy maybe, he definitely likes to flex Russia's muscle. However, and not to understate it, but this attack is an incident. The worst that I see happening is that our relationship with Russia gets a bit more tense and some European countries become a bit tougher, but no war. We got through the Cold War without WWIII I think we'll get through this.

  3. Sounds awfully like the beginnings of other world wars, doesn't it?

    In all seriousness, this is not going to happen. For one, the Ukraianian rebels didn't know it was a civilian aircraft, Malaysia isn't going to respond militarily.

    Almost this exact thing happened in 1988 between Iran and the US here.

  4. Okay, It's just hard for me to wrap my head around someone hating the movie that much. I'm not defending it by any means but.. one of the worst you've seen in years? Poor acting and directing is all it takes to be one of worst? The movie I saw just brushed past me, I don't see how anyone could really hate it or love it. And I remember Jennifer Lawrence having a character, maybe just a tired caricature but not a wooden statue.

  5. Going After Cacciato (1978) by Tim O'Brien

    Fascinating war novel, it's going to take me a while to wrap my head around all of it. Before reading it I didn't know a whole lot about the war in Vietnam and the book didn't tell me much except that the soldiers fighting didn't really know much about it either. There is so much going on in the novel, I'm definitely going to need to do some research. You can see a lot of O'Brien through the pages of this book and I'll be interested in reading his better known autobiographical war book, The Things They Carried. A definite recommendation.

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