Believe or not, in the wake of the Iraq invasion the think tankers of the American enterprise institute, the ones instigated the invasion of Iraq didn't have a clear understanding of the Sunni - Shia divide. Their knowledge of the region was very poor and they didn't understand the complexity of the situation of the region.
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I believe it. The anti-terrorist chief under Bush didn’t know the difference between Sunni and Shia and thought that Bin Laden was Shia.
A poster in the Huawei cafeteria about an American reporter's interview with a Chinese soldier heading to the front lines during WWII.
American reporter: How old are you?
Chinese soldier: 16 years old.
American reporter: Do you miss your family?
Chinese soldier: They are all dead already.
American reporter: Do you believe China can win?
Chinese soldier: China will undoubtedly win.
American reporter: What will you do after China wins? Get married and have kids? Or stay in the army?
Chinese soldier chuckles: By then, I will have already died in battle.
Don’t go riding in convertible cars with the top down Bob.
lol if they really want someone taken out, even riding around in a tank will not save the person
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Damn, I could have sworn I saw a clip in which Mahubani was far more diplomatic in response to a similar question. Not sure what the date of this video is, but it seems like Mahubani is losing patience with these moronic "journalists".
Actually, “physical” scientists and engineers are the biggest prostitutes there are, as all their inventions belong to their slave masters. Tell me that works for hire ain’t glorified prostitution! Unless they‘re funding their own research, which none of them are, they’re nothing but four-eyed, weak-bodied, autistic and socially retarded, desk-jokey, myrmidon, that are “highly” educated to serve the purposes of others. STEM (Stuck Trading Exploitation for Munny)!
Without the “social” science tradition, there would be no holy and sacred “socialism with Chinese characteristics”, no communism, no historical materialism. Funny that so many sycophants that worship at the feet of those that adhere to and advocate these theoretical constructs strive, so desperately, to demean the processes by which these constructs were developed, simply to assuage their social inadequacies and insecurities.
See how ignorant generalizations work? They can be applied equally to everyone!
No one in Chinese history has caused so much collective butt hurt in the West barring Mao Zedong so I guess your husband’s pretty successful based on this metric.
