A Comprehensive List of Current Wars (2441 hits)
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Submitted by Steven Durel <stevendurel.at.yahoo.com> (View user info) at 2004-11-29 08:36:01 EST
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Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2004-12-08 22:20:31 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Punk-ass kid
Submitted by kai070169 (user info) at 2004-12-08 22:06:08 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Nice to be reminded, but your efforts are overblown, in my opinion. I now understand why you feel you DESERVE positive ratings for your efforts.... too bad they're not appreciated ny everyone. INcluding me. I could have done a google search for this info and received better results. I'll not rate your posts anymore, but I will read this with a salt shaker in each hand... you're not my style, but I can't -2 you for that alone.
Submitted by Degreeless_Capibara (user info) at 2004-12-01 00:29:32 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
I learned more from this post than a year in a year of World Events.
Submitted by darko (user info) at 2004-12-01 00:23:11 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
can't we all just get along?
Submitted by stevendurel (user info) at 2004-12-01 00:06:17 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Hmm, well that stinks. I guess I'll just have to be more careful next time. I don't want people to keep on confusing my unbiased posts with my politically-vocal posts.
Thanks for the help, Zakalwe. You're always an unbiased help.
Submitted by zakalwe (user info) at 2004-11-30 18:36:14 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
I thought the same thing (as IcyBlackHand) when I read that line about FARC. Given your previous anti-corporate posts the language you use here suggests support for FARC, or at least sympathy for their motives. Why this has taken you by surprise I don't know, but I suspect many other readers reached a similar conclusion. Hence their harshness.
Submitted by stevendurel (user info) at 2004-11-30 18:23:49 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Not to sound self-rightous or anything, but I really think people like that are being too hard on me. Does anyone agree?
Submitted by stevendurel (user info) at 2004-11-30 18:22:42 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by IcyBlackHand (user info) at 2004-11-29 11:44:21 (#)
Ranking: -2
Steve, you douchebag. FARC is "fighting against corporate interests and the American-backed government" I'm not a fan on the right-wing paramilitaries, but you're making the FARC sound like fucking saints. You're the kind of guy who would call those beheading people in Iraq "freedom fighters" Man, do you get all your talking points from Michael Moore? Can you please make you next post on how America denies tens of millions of its citizens their "right" to housing or healthcare. I just want to see how many sheep will follow you.
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Can someone please explain to me how by saying that rebels are fighting "corporate interests" and the government, that you support their actions? I really don't get that.
It seems to me that people are picking on this kid for no reason. Is anyone else getting that vibe?
Submitted by lojope (user info) at 2004-11-29 22:51:04 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Jesus_Loves_TwEE (user info) at 2004-11-29 18:46:01 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by domenad (user info) at 2004-11-29 17:46:07 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Mmm, okay. I still think you should have made not of the fact that FARC and ELA are funded by drugs as well, but this does reflect a lot of work. Don't mean to be a dick.
Submitted by Durae (user info) at 2004-11-29 17:15:33 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I really enjoy your posts, regardless of whether or not you manage to get every itsy bitsy detail perfect... It's still more effort and more information than most users put out.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2004-11-29 16:23:16 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Chronicles_of_College_Guy (user info) at 2004-11-29 09:03:35 (#)
Ranking: 2
Domenad, stop being a jerk. I'm with Steve on this one. If you send a dozen guys to help set up sandbags, then your country really isn't in a war. Why do you have to try to find flaws in it? Just give the kid a +2 for his good work. He obviously spent time on it. When's the last time you put in this much effort on one of your posts?
Solid +2, Steve.
Submitted by ETS (user info) at 2004-11-29 15:59:05 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Here's your 1.5 from me.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2004-11-29 15:57:58 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Good work. Are you a geography teacher, or do you just design textbooks for a living? I would have liked to have seen death toll statistics for each conflict where available, but you can't ask for everything I guess, specially since it's ongoing.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2004-11-29 11:46:03 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
Funny how you only detailed the wars in which the US is involved directly or remotely and just listed the others. This wasn't informative.
Submitted by IcyBlackHand (user info) at 2004-11-29 11:44:21 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Steve, you douchebag. FARC is "fighting against corporate interests and the American-backed government" I'm not a fan on the right-wing paramilitaries, but you're making the FARC sound like fucking saints. You're the kind of guy who would call those beheading people in Iraq "freedom fighters" Man, do you get all your talking points from Michael Moore? Can you please make you next post on how America denies tens of millions of its citizens their "right" to housing or healthcare. I just want to see how many sheep will follow you.
Submitted by Spam (user info) at 2004-11-29 11:22:52 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
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Submitted by Chronicles_of_College_Guy (user info) at 2004-11-29 09:03:35 (#)
Ranking: 2
Domenad, stop being a jerk. I'm with Steve on this one. If you send a dozen guys to help set up sandbags, then your country really isn't in a war. Why do you have to try to find flaws in it? Just give the kid a +2 for his good work. He obviously spent time on it. When's the last time you put in this much effort on one of your posts?
Solid +2, Steve.
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"A Comprehensive List of Current Wars"
Comprehensive: adj
including all or everything; "comprehensive coverage";
If some of the information here is innacurate, I don't think that Domenad is 'being a jerk' pointing that out. Were this titled "highly simplified and incomplete list of current wars I could be arsed to research", it then would have recieved a +ve score.
True, effort has gone into this, but I sometimes put quite a lot of effort into expelling a paticular stuborn turd from my bowels - It doesn't mean that afterwards, I will look fondly into the toilet pan and say "mmm, +2. Good effort".
Submitted by big_wigger (user info) at 2004-11-29 11:00:27 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
dont forget the kashmir war, thats still pretty active i think
Submitted by TheSpook (user info) at 2004-11-29 10:39:36 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I thought it was good and accurate enough. Exact dates are not really needed, just the time periods the wars began and ended.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2004-11-29 10:37:26 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
Why'd you leave out the Star Wars trilogy?
Submitted by xenon (user info) at 2004-11-29 10:31:25 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
good reminder to all of us.
Submitted by youarsoghey (user info) at 2004-11-29 10:28:45 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
I'm pretty sure the American peacekeeping mission in Somalia was in 1993.
Submitted by Fleury75 (user info) at 2004-11-29 10:24:49 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Great post, very informative
Submitted by zakalwe (user info) at 2004-11-29 09:44:00 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Thanks for the response. The war on terror comment was meant to be a joke, guess there weren't enough question marks to make that clear.
Still don't think Baathist remnants form the majority of "insurgents." Perhaps in Sunni areas, but not Baghdad or the South.
Submitted by stevendurel (user info) at 2004-11-29 09:28:13 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
IN RESPONSE TO ZAKALWE:
"Baath party loyalists is a massive simplification. Like saying a handful of neo-cons are fighting the war single-handed."
True, but they are a large majority of the insurgents in Iraq. Also, they had a flag that I could use.
"How about India/Pakistan? Not everyday fighting, but many skirmishes."
Well, then they're not fighting every day and not really at war.
"What kind of name is Puntland?"
I don't know. I didn't name it.
"Surely the Afghanistan civil war could be considered suspended '96-'01 during Taliban rule."
No, because there still were rebels in the north (remember the "Northern Alliance" that the US helped). The UN kept ties with the northern rebels throughout this time and considered them a "government in exile". The fact of the matter is that there has been an ongoing, continuous Civil War in Afghanistan since 1978.
"Don't mention Basque terrorists (unless you meant to exclude such conflicts)."
There's a rigid line between terrorism and Civil War, but--at least in my own opinion--the Basques (as well as Zapitistas) fall short of being fighters in a Civil War. This is a judgment call, however.
"Why is Germany orange?"
Germany makes up a large part of the NATO forces in Afghanistan. That is also why the Netherlands is orange.
"How about the WAR ON TERROR?"
Ehhh. How about the "War on Drugs". I don't think that it's really possible to rage a war with something as general as an ideology. I think that the only things that should really be considered in a war is actual troop-versus-troop combat.
Submitted by ardubs (user info) at 2004-11-29 09:27:30 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by rurumon (user info) at 2004-11-29 09:24:34 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Regardless of whether or not your accuracy was 100%, it was an interesting post. People that are attacking you because of some misinformation seem to be missing the point of the post.
Submitted by williamson (user info) at 2004-11-29 09:22:35 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Aussies are kicking arse in Iraq.
Aussie troops are smart and never whine. That's what makes them kick so much arse.
Submitted by Avals (user info) at 2004-11-29 09:20:58 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
+2 for the effort.
Submitted by zakalwe (user info) at 2004-11-29 09:15:49 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Raised more questions than it answered. A few:
Baath party loyalists is a massive simplification. Like saying a handful of neo-cons are fighting the war single-handed.
How about India/Pakistan? Not everyday fighting, but many skirmishes.
What kind of name is Puntland?
Surely the Afghanistan civil war could be considered suspended '96-'01 during Taliban rule.
Don't mention Basque terrorists (unless you meant to exclude such conflicts)
Why is Germany orange?
How about the "WAR ON TERROR."
Submitted by professorfuckface (user info) at 2004-11-29 09:03:52 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
What the fuck, what about the cola wars?
Submitted by Chronicles_of_College_Guy (user info) at 2004-11-29 09:03:35 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Domenad, stop being a jerk. I'm with Steve on this one. If you send a dozen guys to help set up sandbags, then your country really isn't in a war. Why do you have to try to find flaws in it? Just give the kid a +2 for his good work. He obviously spent time on it. When's the last time you put in this much effort on one of your posts?
Solid +2, Steve.
Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2004-11-29 09:03:08 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Nice
Submitted by domenad (user info) at 2004-11-29 09:01:04 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Non-combat soldiers have been killed in Iraq, but you don't count them as being in the war? That nets you a -2 my friend. Logistics are a part of war.
Submitted by Phallic_Cymbals (user info) at 2004-11-29 08:57:29 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Even if you made this up from nothing (which you obviously didn't) such an informative effort is well worth +2
Submitted by Spam (user info) at 2004-11-29 08:51:45 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
Can't really see the point of this post, and I have a rather niggly feeling that some of the information here is inaccurate/incomplete.
Submitted by triple_optics (user info) at 2004-11-29 08:44:38 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by stevendurel (user info) at 2004-11-29 08:43:58 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
No, you didn't do your homework. While I did neglect to mention that EVERY military group in Columbia benefits from drug money, the military forces in Iraq are limited to the US, UK, Australia, Poland, and Iraqis. Other "Coalition of the Willing" forces do not execute military operations (as Japan has not technically had a real military since the treaty that ended World War II).
Submitted by domenad (user info) at 2004-11-29 08:40:27 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
And here I thought you really did your research.
1) FARC is heavily funded by drug money, over 600 million a year comes from taxing coca growers. Ditto for the ELN. Funny how you mentioned drug involvement with the AUC, but not with FARC. COuld it be because they're "anti-corporate" (but not anti-drug cartel)?
2) You left Japan, Canada, and dozens of other eastern bloc countries off the list. They're involved in Iraq as well.