Recent content by setanta3

pat494 re self defence - look at French in ww2 - didn't bother with self defence and they had a good war and an even better post war?

P Boyles - you seem well informed on the politics in the Republic of Ireland -;) yes I was there last week and it is a motley crew. They seem to change the way the figure head is elected to suit what day of the week it is - and now there are 7 days, with time on their hands (after the economic...

lol splitlink - yes conjecture, but the human race are evolving and learning -all the time and we can still hope, that we are learning from our mistakes. pboyles - the debate here has been enjoyable with people able to disagree about an emotional subject without excessively emoting. Pat494 -...

In any case, I stumbled in here, - my view is purely that war, terrorism etc is a waste, and of course strong arguments can be put forward to justify military action, the motives presented are not always what they seem and with AA stating that due to Gadafi's removal petrol will drop 6pence a...

Lol somehow I don't think Conor cruise O'brien as an example of a member of Fine Gael as being firends with Gadaffi? Considering Britain's friendship with gadafi in the last 10 years with Blair visiting him in the tent and saying "you look well"? and Gordon Brown releasing Magrahi with Tory...

Aren't Gadaffis' Friends in Ireland in Government there now? happily running the show with Britain's most loyal subjects the democratic unionist party?

Indeed!

so, your happy for your kids to go the Middle east then? to fight for what? or maybe your just happy for someone else kids to go from the council estates around britain/

oh come on; thanks to GWB iq borderline and his puppet TB, who did very nicely in the end thank you, we have been exposed to IEDs and all the rest of it and $4T - where has it left the American people and Britain for that matter- bankrupt, financially and morally. Like dropping the atomic bomb...

it probably is a daft idea - but then so is borrowing to start any business - how many fail in the first year? not as high a rate as forex traders, but a significant number. and is;nt it always better to lose someone else's money?