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But saying this, what has Saudi Arabia done for the Palestinian cause?

Have we? Gambit, I'm not trying to defend any ideology or government, it's just that while condemning China and Russia, the U.S. always purports to uphold high values - liberty, justice, democracy, the American Dream - and all it boasted of now seems like empty, shallow hypocrisy to the rest of...

Indeed. That is all America's retaliations to 'terrorism' has brought - more death. It seems unbecoming. This cannot possibly end terrorism, it will only exacerbate it. The U.S. made the wrong choice after 9/11, and it has only fallen more and more since. No amount of terrorism can fight terrorism.

I've met several Sikhs, one at my university not too long ago, and I've tried to research a little into this on my own, but never really got a completely clear answer. Is Sikhism a branch/offshoot of Islam or Hinduism, or both?

October 18, 2013 - 09:40 DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said on Friday it was declining its United Nations Security Council rotating seat, citing "double standards" that made it hard for the world body to end conflict and wars. "The kingdom sees that the method and work mechanism and the...

That may well be so, but I still strongly feel the war was not justified.

What do you mean by this? Did not Christianity commit brutal atrocities as well? Such as in the Crusades?

Indeed, most Egyptians never sought or desired American aid in the first place. The U.S. should just...leave Egypt alone.

So racial nationalism is surging in Russia as well, this is intriguing, but perhaps not surprising.

I think that while Islamic invasion may be a popularly believed factor in Buddhism's decline in South Asia, I think the actual historical reality is far more complex and debatable. India - or at least the kingdoms that would become India - has always been internally sectarian, many different...

Yet the vast majority of your people today are devout Hindus. And didn't constant competition with Hinduism contribute to Buddhism's decline in India in the first place?

If so, I think this is very promising news.

Personally, I feel Islam is a great faith, it is only that some extreme elements have somewhat damaged their image.

The NSA program is immoral, illegal and despicable. It is only one sign of many truly how low America has fallen.

Buddhism is practically extinct in India. And were it not so, it would be anathema to Hindu dogma anyway.

I sympathized with the opposition at first, but, honestly, the risk of Syria becoming a second Iraq is too great now. If Assad does relinquish power, who would replace him in the aftermath? Too much is uncertain as it is. At least the Alawites' rule provided some semblance of...stability.

I am sure that some casualties of the war may have been from sectarian conflict and strife, but that does not exonerate the invasion whatsoever. I personally feel that the U.S. had many complex motives for imposing the regime change, but that is neither here nor there.

This is somewhat irrelevant to this thread, but do you think peace with the Israelis is at all possible? Or do you think other, more direct methods are necessary to resolve the dispute?

I usually try to maintain a more...worldly perspective, but I do think it is good to have a proper balance of power globally.

I just hope the civil war ends soon.