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Thanks madd0ct0r.

Thanks, I will.

I admit that my knowledge of Afghan history is a mile wide and an inch deep. Little bit better versed on the recent history.

The one thing that I would suggest that the former 13 colonies also had was the fact that they had successfully rebelled against England. This accomplishment gave them a starting point where they could make the assertion that they had chosen not to be a colony, and that they had chosen to be an ind...

Yeah. Without the benefit of hindsight, had we looked at the US in the late 1700s, we might have said much the same things about it. The only thing the 13 Colonies really had in common were that they were largely white and formerly British citizens; realistically, they had several religious divisio...

I disagree with that simply because building a national identity takes a lot of time and Afghanistan did not get that time. I agree that they did not get enough time, but I think that it goes beyond that. Elheru Aran is correct that breakdown of tribal identity requires intermingling, but the simpl...

Interesting pictures (particularly the before and after of the park), but I have to take issue with the captioning that Afghanistan was embracing a national identity rather than a tribal one. It very well may be that in the major cities such as Kabul and Kandahar that the wealthier elements of Afgha...

Aren´t most terrorists social outsiders? Perhaps this is the key to decreasing the danger. Have less social outsiders. If you are of the oppinion that the terrorists religion is at least partially to blame and concentrate on that aspect you leave yourself in quite a powerless situation. After all y...

Sorry for going back a page, but I just got up. Ray 245, honest question here (not trolling) because I think that this is the heart of the "moderate Muslim" vs "extremist Muslim" problem: As I mentioned above, I do not think it is a good idea to treat western idea of religion in ...

Perhaps, if the title HAS to mention religion at all, the correct expression would be "Muslim extremists attack Charlie Hebdo" because that's what I think is really meant here. The problem is that people get lazy, both in speaking and in thinking. "Extremist Muslims" degrades to...

In that the shooters escaped, wait for the real problems to start when French law enforcement starts going into the banlieues looking for them.

Ubiquitous, I have checked a number of ME news sites and have not seen anything further. I am going to hope that this means they are in the process of either a) negotiating his release, or b) finalizing the rescue package.

I was not aware that ISIS had signed the convention, so this is a moot point anyway. You cannot violate a law you don't have... Actually, under international law and the Law of Armed Conflict an accused can be held to account even if the nation or organization has not actually signed or ratified th...

ISIL would have to be acting more crazy than normal to execute this guy for propaganda. He flies an F-16 for a smallish country with money to throw around; he's probably Jordan's highly-trained version of Maverick, or at least Goose. If ISIL just did a rational POW exchange they could probably get ...

Good day everyone, First, thanks to Edi and Dalton for saving me from the spam filter. Much appreciated. I have read what is openly available for a while, and I appreciate the chance to post. I hope to make some useful contributions, continue to learn from what I read here, and have some fun. Intere...