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Is Islam responsible for "Islamic terrorism" or are those terrorists just people with political grievances that happen to be Muslim?
>Note to mods, this thread is on-topic. It is about religion, and "Islamic terrorism" on western soil has been occurring since at least a century ago, to say nothing of on non-western soil.
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About as responsible as Christianity is for catholic pedophiles, or shinto for the war crimes of japanese soldiers in world war 2.
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>>580861
i don't think catholic priests are a good example since pedophilia is probably a natural inclination
but anyway, what your saying is that a bunch of murderers who gunned down some cartoonists that made fun of their beliefs weren't motivated by religion and that their actions are comparable to the actions of professional soldiers in a time of war
i'm not convinced
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>>580893
M8 look at Buddhists in Sri Lanka and Burma
Look at Hindus killing people they suspect of having beef in their fridge
Look at the various Marxist terror groups
Look at what Mexican drug cartels do to innocents just to show the govt to leave them alone - hint Mexicans are almost all Catholics
When the Jews bombed the King David hotel that was religious
Tamil Tiger suicide bombers weren't doing it for Islam
Switch off Faux News for a couple of hours
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Just what the fuck would've happened if England won the War of the Roses?
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>>580793
...but England did win the War of the Roses. It had to: all the participants were English nobles of one description or another.
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>>580793
You mean the 100 years war.
Well England would have ceased to Exist as France would have become the primary title, then at some point in the future France would probably lose a war in which the peace stipulations required the establishment of some random English pretender to a restored independent England. So ultimately it would probably just wind up with England being less powerful.
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I keep seeing people mistake the 100 Years War and the War of the Roses. Is it just one retard?
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Merging the Army and Marines 2016-01-20 07:47:45 Post No.580755
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Merging the Army and Marines
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Just finished reading pic related and he makes passing mention of the Marine's fear of merging with the Army;
>Our training picked up in intensity, and rumors began to fly regarding the next “blitz” (a term commonly used for a campaign). We heard that the 1st Marine Division was to be put into an army to invade the China coast or Formosa (Taiwan). Many of my buddies feared that we would lose our identity as Marines and that the Marine Corps would finally be absorbed into the U.S. Army (a fate that has caused anxiety to U.S. Marines of many generations).
Looking it up all I find are modern articles and op-eds arguing for a merging of the two for financial reasons, which I assume was the argument in 1944, but obviously that didn't happen.
So why would a merge be a bad idea? How is it justified to equip, train, and operate two separate ground forces?
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>>580755
One is trained as a main bulk ground force, the other as a rapid deploying amphibious expeiditionary force under the department of the Navy.
The President can deploy Marines anywhere in the world without congressional approval, just as he can fleets.
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>>580765
>One is trained as a main bulk ground force, the other as a rapid deploying amphibious expeiditionary force under the department of the Navy.
The problem is that modern USAF protocol makes them literally redundant. And in addition, every war since '45 (with the exception of both Iraq wars) have either been supplementary wars (Korea) or anti-guerilla warfare (every war since Korea) which renders the Marines relatively useless.
>The President can deploy Marines anywhere in the world without congressional approval
Shit should be illegal.
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Better answered on /k/ tbqh
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Alright, /his/ educate me on René Descartes.
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>>580679
www.google.com
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>>580679
H U M E
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>>580684
What the fuck, it's ok to ask on /sci/ but not here? You're not even useful.
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Does /his/ think the Gracchi brothers were in the right?
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>>580557
The Gracchi did literally nothing wrong.
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>>580560
I agree. I'm asking because /his/ is filled with Optimates-boos and I wanna see their reasoning.
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>>580557
Greatest philanthropists in the ancient world. Similar to Gandhi and mlk, but better
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>I'm a girl btw: the monarch
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>>580472
>Look, I hate Catholics as much as anybody, but don't you guys think Protestantism is just as bad?
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>Normies should all just die desu senpai
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>>580472
>tfw you will never have a son
>tfw my wives are worthless
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I have a question. Let's all think and philosophize.
We know there's a group of people who own everything.
Leave emotions aside, leave everything you believe in aside.
Why would a group of people want all the power in the world? What is the reason? What do they know that alot of us dont?
Even if you believe in evolution it doesnt make sense, the strongest survive. But we're humans. We have everything we need to survive?
Maybe there is no reason and they just do it. But i doubt it. It's stupid to think they're idiots. They have knowledge, alot of it. Or else they wouln't be doing what they do and be so good at it.
I just want to know.
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Give me ideas you imbeciles.
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>>580476
>give me ideas
THE ANSWER IS WITHIN YOURSELF
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There is literally nothing wrong with the Great Man Theory.
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>>580258
I have never heard of that theory,could you please explain it to me.
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>>580263
Important men are what makes history go.
It's fallen out of fashion because the theory doesn't contextualize those important men.
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>>580263
Theory of history that views the actions of exceptional individuals as the most influential driving force upon history, relegating economic, social, and political forces to a secondary role.
Critics generally respond that most 'great men' are in fact the products of their environments, and therefore merely another manifestation of social and economic forces.
Those critics are faggots.
I need book recommendations, /his/. Don't go easy on me, I'm ready. Can you do it?
> I can read Spanish at a proficient level
> The target is an in-depth exploration of the history of the country, including post-Peron politics and the rise of Kirchnerism
> Even though Argentina gets my attention, I'm interested in South America in general when learning about San Martin and his campaigns for independence
> Falklands/Malvinas war gets special attention
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>>579956
these
politics and policy in contemporary argentina:
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199756223/obo-9780199756223-0064.xml?rskey=z0nEqJ&result=3&q=argentina#firstMatch
Argentina in the Era of Mass Immigration
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199766581/obo-9780199766581-0163.xml?rskey=z0nEqJ&result=5&q=argentina#firstMatch
Perón and Peronism
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199766581/obo-9780199766581-0041.xml?rskey=z0nEqJ&result=8&q=argentina#firstMatch
Juan Manuel de Rosas
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199766581/obo-9780199766581-0069.xml?rskey=z0nEqJ&result=20&q=argentina#firstMatch
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>>580660
Thanks anon. The site isn't mobile friendly so I'll check those links as soon as I can.
Books about independence wars led by San Martin are still missing if I'm not mistaken, but I'll try to find them there too when I get a chance.
Anyone has specific book recommendations?
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>>579956
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>men like this are long gone
>there was nobody to replace them with
It's over. The human spirit is broken.
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So what exactly would they do today? I don't get it. The world had to run out of frontiers and adventures at some point. It was inevitable.
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>>580428
We haven't run out of frontiers. Everyday, we anons push and explore new lands of terrible shitposting, bizzare fetishes, and shitty memes.
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>>580436
It's as they say. Born too late to explore the earth, born too early to explore the stars, born just in time to browse dank memes
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Why did Japan surrender? 2016-01-20 01:54:53 Post No.579766
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http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/08/07/why_did_japan_surrender/?page=full
>“Hasegawa has changed my mind,” says Richard Rhodes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Making of the Atomic Bomb.” “The Japanese decision to surrender was not driven by the two bombings.”
>Americans, then and today, have tended to assume that Japan’s leaders were simply blinded by their own fanaticism, forcing a catastrophic showdown for no reason other than their refusal to acknowledge defeat. This was, after all, a nation that trained its young men to fly their planes, freighted with explosives, into the side of American naval vessels.
>But Hasegawa and other historians have shown that Japan’s leaders were in fact quite savvy, well aware of their difficult position, and holding out for strategic reasons. Their concern was not so much whether to end the conflict, but how to end it while holding onto territory, avoiding war crimes trials, and preserving the imperial system. The Japanese could still inflict heavy casualties on any invader, and they hoped to convince the Soviet Union, still neutral in the Asian theater, to mediate a settlement with the Americans. Stalin, they calculated, might negotiate more favorable terms in exchange for territory in Asia. It was a long shot, but it made strategic sense.
>Very late the next night, however, something happened that did change the plan. The Soviet Union declared war and launched a broad surprise attack on Japanese forces in Manchuria. In that instant, Japan’s strategy was ruined. Stalin would not be extracting concessions from the Americans. And the approaching Red Army brought new concerns: The military position was more dire, and it was hard to imagine occupying communists allowing Japan’s traditional imperial system to continue. Better to surrender to Washington than to Moscow.
>By the morning of Aug. 9, the Japanese Supreme War Council was meeting to discuss the terms of surrender.
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American dicking is less painful than Soviet dicking.
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>yfw america didn't beat the nazis or the japs
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So, what if the US didn't invade at all and just starve and incinerate them? Like just keeping up there bombing campaigns, their naval blockade, and use their freshly baked atomic bombs and chemical weapons in between? How is the Japanese leadership not fanatical if not surrendering means the complete destruction of their nation and the death of untold millions?
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This subject came up in a /co/ thread and it was thought better to be brought here since it's history related.
>Does the laws of the Old Testament apply to those who follow Jesus Christ, and is homosexuality still considered a sin within the new covenant of Jesus Christ?
Well /his/? What say you about the new covenant of Jesus Christ and the differences of the laws from old and new?
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Jesus kept the old testament laws, why shouldn't Christians who aspire to be like Christ do likewise?
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>>579757
Would be better to rephrase that in terms of historical development.
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>>579783
In Acts, the Apostles decreed that Gentiles didn't have to follow the old laws.
>But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality.
What was China's Golden Era?
Qin Shi Huang Reporting In
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Three Kingdoms, Tang Dynasy, Qin Dynasty.
Worst eras were basically everything after Yuan.
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>>579835
>Ming
>Worse than Yuan
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Tang Dynasty during the reign of Li Shimin, most of Chinese historians agreed with that.
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Post the absolute worst historical figures from human history. Bonus points if they are NOT from the mid 20th century.
I'll get this thread started off with Lavrentiy Beria
>He attended the Yalta Conference with Stalin, who introduced him to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt as "our Himmler".
>After the war, he organized the communist takeover of the state institutions of Central and Eastern Europe.
>In 1924 he led the repression of a Georgian nationalist uprising, after which up to 10,000 people were executed. For this display of "Bolshevik ruthlessness," Beria was appointed head of the "secret-political division" of the Transcaucasian OGPU and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
>When Stalin's purge of the Communist Party and government began in 1934 after the assassination of Leningrad party boss Sergei Kirov (1 December 1934), Beria ran the purges in Transcaucasia. He used the opportunity to settle many old scores
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These fuckers.
It was all down hill for the west after this.
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more on Beria
>On 5 March 1940, after the Gestapo–NKVD Third Conference was held in Zakopane, Beria sent a note (no. 794/B) to Stalin in which he stated that the Polish prisoners of war kept at camps and prisons in western Belarus and Ukraine were enemies of the Soviet Union, and recommended their execution. Most of them were military officers, but there were also intelligentsia, doctors, and priests and others for a total of over 22,000. With Stalin's approval, Beria's NKVD executed them in what became known as the Katyn massacre.
pic related is said note to Stalin
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Leopold II checking in.
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Who was the best leader of the 1st crusade and why is it Bohemond?
>Mfw Stephen of blois runs away during the winter but his wife bitches him into joining the crusade of 1101 aka the bitch crusade to make up for it.
Daily reminder that the Byzantines pretty much deserved everything bad that happened to them, dishonest craven allies who used the crusaders like pawns then turn tail and abandon them at their finest hour. Did a single greek even participate in the crusade? Alexios sent like 1500 soldiers with the crusaders and they were in the rear guarding his guides and never actually participated in battles.
I hope everyone on /his/ understands knows that the 4th crusaders literally did nothing wrong, the Byzantines are just horrible at keeping their promises and keep getting backhanded by karma.
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>>579583
Byzantines were cool, but I'm a Veniceboo
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>>579583
>why is it Bohemond?
You mean the guy who risked the entire first Crusade at Antioch just so he could get his way and acquire some land?
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>>579597
Who routed the muslim armies and had all his shit together?
Who took Antioch?
Who said "fuck that shit" when the Emperor strongarmed everyone else into a bitch oath?
Yeah thats right, Bohemond.