| BringBackChrono said: kasz my friend doesnt middle-east sound like a geographical position to you? and im sorry to say, india lies in south eastern asia. and i think human rights can afford to take a back seat to development in the developing countries,because human rights aint exactly what feeds the people. as you mentioned your friend,there must be other people too who'd want their human rights.but that number is smaller than the people who get fed thanks to the system.when these numbers get reversed, i assure you, the government will be compelled to shape up. but until that day comes, i think its no one elses damn business what goes on there,as long as mass-murder of political opponents or innocent citizens doesnt take place. and whats wrong with the olympics? US shows off its strength and magnificence to the world on a yearly basis cant little China do it too? |
So you didn't read my post at all. It's the most "polite" way to say arab over here. When you say Arab, people get upset, sort of like when you say black. Instead of saying middleastern despite not everyone being from the middle east, and african american even though for all you know the guy could be british.
Yeah. Farmland does. Which China is rapidly destroying in their attempts to develop. Ariable land is being built on instead of farming there. It's one of the main reasons we have the global food crisis we currently have. Governments who can get away with have learned that by starving their people and building on their ariable lands they can make a few extra bucks through modernization or through ethanol. Countries like Brazil and the US do it as well, the only difference is that the US and Brazil make enough food to feed it's citizens. (And then some. America is by far the largest donners of food when it comes to emergency food stores. Actually John Mccain has promised to stop Ethanol subsidaries. I'm not sure if the democrats will follow suit but it would be smart.)
They don't have much meaning anymore with the US currently being the only super power. When there was the cold war, yeah it was just another dickmeasuring contest between NATO and the Soviet Block. Before then there were no super powers and it was a big "who's better" competion between them. Even when America finally loses the Super Power status it likely won't matter since atheleticism is no longer the power of the world. Some technology games would be a better use of time at this point.
I have no clue what you mean by this last part.
