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[unixronin]

jordan179 outs Amnesty International for supporting jihad.  All you have to do is claim, however unsupportably, that it's "in self defense", and Amnesty International will have no problem with it whatsoever, and will actually suspend any of its own personnel who have a problem with Amnesty International endorsing jihad.  And as pointed out in that thread, Islam has been making war on other peoples "for its own defense" since at least about the eighth century AD.

And, in another case where it's all about definitions, Strategic Forecasting points out that Mexico's having lost control of its northern states to drug cartels isn't necessarily a problem, for Mexico, if you look at it the right way.  Looked at from the perspective that drug smuggling into the US is America's problem, drug smuggling across the Mexican border brings Mexico forty billion dollars of hard (well ... OK, harder) foreign currency a year.  About thirty two billion dollars of this is profit, which would require about a third of a trillion dollars in conventional business to produce.  In other words, the drug trade pumps as much new money into the Mexican economy as does roughly a third of Mexico's GDP.  As has been pointed out before, it is not in Mexico's economic interest to stem the flow of illegal drugs from Mexico into the US, any more than it's in Mexico's interest to stem the flow of illegal immigrants.

Of course, to be fair, this knife — like many others — cuts both ways.  There are things the US could do fix the problem from the US side; principally, taking the profit out of smuggling through drug legalization.  But the US cannot bring itself to do that, and can't figure out how to reduce the demand for drugs while keeping them illegal.  So, short of massive military action against Mexico, here we stand.

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[jordan179.livejournal.com]

But the US cannot bring itself to do that, and can't figure out how to reduce the demand for drugs while keeping them illegal. So, short of massive military action against Mexico, here we stand.

IMO, the next decades may see Mexico falling to a narcoterrorist regime, and America conquering and annexing Mexico in response to that regime's escalating provocations across the border.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Let's see, what was that radioactive isotope MacArthur was gonna spread along the Korean/Chinese border . . .

[wyrdling.livejournal.com]

ugh. this makes me sick. talk about AI compromising their own principles...
thank you for pointing it out.

and, well, if CA gets broke enough, we might see drug legalization. i'm hoping, at least

[polaris93.livejournal.com]

The "in their own defense" jazz seems to be the liberals' latest ineffective attempt at "rebutting" reasoned arguments for defending this country against Islamists and other terrorists. Clear evidence they're brain-damaged.