Is the 'Iran War' Thread MIA?

[Quips]

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news...d=av4WDK2YA2nQ

[JOVARN]

Its a very sad time we live in. The body count continues to rise and the military courts are being kept very busy.
Starting to remind me of another war we once fought. The courts were busy with that one as well, but it ended soon after.

[tsptalk]

We are trying to get away from political opinions here. If you want to talk about the "Iran war", which by the way doesn't exist yet, it should somehow pertain to how it affects our TSP accounts. Otherwise we get people like Machinist Mate passionately jumping in and everyone is fighting over something we really don't need to discuss here. People end up getting banned when it wasn't necessary. Some can discuss this subject rationally - others can't.

Thanks for understanding.

Tom

Isn't there a War Talk.com somewhere?

[Birchtree]

Everytime I see that pissant name - Machinist Moron - I bristle with the desire to zip him up in a dark green one of his own. What terrible vibes that were left in that small wake.

Dennis

[Quips]

The topic is less about Iran, Iraq or N. Korea, but how the nation's foreign policy affects not only war, but peace and the economy.

Bloomberg columnists write about such things as well.

As far as foreign policy goes, who could say for sure that US foreign policy and business interests with Vietnam doesn't have something to do with 1) purposely rubbing mainland China the wrong way in an area it considers as it backyard and 2) China giving implicit approval to N. Korea and its nacent ICBM program?

Also, our foreign policy also is affecting market conditions in regards to the price of oil and the UN security council. Such things affect the economy.

Nobody around here is irreplaceable, but it was great to be informed about lewrockwell.com -- while I don't agree with some of the stuff there, it is very interesting and provides an alternate perspective that is sorely lacking in American society.

Yet I would think that some moderators here practice their craft more like butchers and less like surgeons, and some lack a great deal of discretion, i.e. throwing out the baby with the bath water. When one doesn't allow dissent, others have to wonder where freedom has gone. And that lack of freedom -- part and parcel with responsibility of course -- will close the doors to creativeness and fresh ideas.

There is a place in the world for moderators as well as regulators, but it takes discretion and skill since they are the ones who are responsible to balance such things with freedom and an open society; not operating a website in a cabal or clique.

[Spaf]

Yet I would think .....................

The butchery was someone else's doing. Being discrete only made matters worse. We allow dissent, but not arrogant, rude, intolerant, repeated bashing. The bashing was not creative and did not express any fresh ideas. The party doing the bashing was confronted, and even given a 2nd chance, to no avail! Other members were getting very upset and posting very heavy responses. The thread was locked. I tried to fix it, but had to give up; to fix this, we had to fix that, on and on it went. Well, it became too extensive! The I.W thread was sadly deleted. Sorry for the loss of I.W. thread!

[JOVARN]

Sorry MY BAD. Dead issue no pun intended

The article did refer to the Iraq War

[tsptalk]

Yet I would think that some moderators here practice their craft more like butchers and less like surgeons, and some lack a great deal of discretion, i.e. throwing out the baby with the bath water. When one doesn't allow dissent, others have to wonder where freedom has gone. And that lack of freedom -- part and parcel with responsibility of course -- will close the doors to creativeness and fresh ideas.

There is a place in the world for moderators as well as regulators, but it takes discretion and skill since they are the ones who are responsible to balance such things with freedom and an open society; not operating a website in a cabal or clique.

We accept your offer to moderate this thread Quips. It's a thankless job but you'll do fine. Let people say their peace but don't let it get too out of hand.

Thanks,
Tom

[tsptalk]

As you may have seen, this thread has been moved to "World Affairs" and it comes with a warning. Post at your own risk.

If any animosity created in this thread spreads to offensive posts in the rest of the board, we will be forced to take action like - yes - deleting your posts.

Enjoy!

[Rod]

Its a very sad time we live in. The body count continues to rise and the military courts are being kept very busy.
Starting to remind me of another war we once fought. The courts were busy with that one as well, but it ended soon after.

I like listening to Michael Savage. He sums up my thoughts rather nicely on certain topics.

[Rod]

We accept your offer to moderate this thread Quips. It's a thankless job but you'll do fine. Let people say their peace but don't let it get too out of hand.

Thanks,
Tom

Amen.

HAVE AT IT

I'm sure you won't accept though because you won't want to put up with all the bull...

Trying to use reverse psychology.

But seriously, it would be quite entertaining for you.

How about it???

[Fivetears]

Harley Davidson in Vietnam? (picked this up deep in the Quips link below; sorry I'm puzzled off topic)
And in motorbike-crazy Vietnam, where city streets are clogged with cheap Chinese models, Harley-Davidson, the all-American company, has sensed an opportunity. It won concessions in recent trade talks to have tariffs on heavy cycles lifted, and plans to open a showroom soon.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/19/wo...19vietnam.html

Also notes on this here
http://money.cnn.com/services/ticker...____CGW055.htm

Never would have seen this coming. Can they afford them?

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/19/wo...19vietnam.html

Is this what the North Korean missile gambit is all about? You know it has Beijing's inplicit approvable to do it.

Could Beijing consider Vietnam in its sphere of influence, and let North Korea bluff and bluster to get that point across?

http://www.tsptalk.com/mb/showpost.p...1&postcount=12