Dr Phil said this....

[skyraider]

You can choose to be right...or you can choose to be happy. I vote for the latter -- but hey, it's your call. The next time you get frustrated with your results, though, look in the mirror and ask yourself, "How's that working for you?"


The world needs to look at themselves in the mirror and ask that question.

 

[layoutshooter]

You can choose to be right...or you can choose to be happy. I vote for the latter -- but hey, it's your call. The next time you get frustrated with your results, though, look in the mirror and ask yourself, "How's that working for you?"


The world needs to look at themselves in the mirror and ask that question.

Would that not kinda depend on the situation?

 

[skyraider]

I was just thinking,,WW2 is over and stayed over. The Europeans are not blowing themselves to bits as do our acquaintances in the Middle East. Now, blaming someone for their problems does not help. The ME guys have been fussing and bombing since time on end. He took my wife, he got my camel, he took my well, blah, blah , blah. I know,its more complicated then that, here a tribe, there a tribe, everywhere a tribe tribe, but , hey hows that working for them now?

PS- Europe has stopped the big war stuff,,,why can't the M.E. ? I know,,its complicated ,(sighing).

 

[tenntrucker]

I was just thinking,,WW2 is over and stayed over. The Europeans are not blowing themselves to bits as do our acquaintances in the Middle East. Now, blaming someone for their problems does not help. The ME guys have been fussing and bombing since time on end. He took my wife, he got my camel, he took my well, blah, blah , blah. I know,its more complicated then that, here a tribe, there a tribe, everywhere a tribe tribe, but , hey hows that working for them now?

PS- Europe has stopped the big war stuff,,,why can't the M.E. ? I know,,its complicated ,(sighing).

Only way to have true peace is to crush the enemy, just ask Germany and Japan.

sent from my Galaxy S3

 

[layoutshooter]

Only way to have true peace is to crush the enemy, just ask Germany and Japan.

sent from my Galaxy S3

There was no "True" peace after WWII. There has not been "True" peace for several hundred years, if ever. Peace is not just the absence of war.

 

[tenntrucker]

There was no "True" peace after WWII. There has not been "True" peace for several hundred years, if ever. Peace is not just the absence of war.

Peace*is an occurrence of harmony characterized by lack of violence, conflict behaviors and the freedom from fear of violence.

I don't recall either of these countries starting another conflict.

sent from my Galaxy Tab2

 

[layoutshooter]

Peace*is an occurrence of harmony characterized by lack of violence, conflict behaviors and the freedom from fear of violence.

I don't recall either of these countries starting another conflict.

sent from my Galaxy Tab2

Peace is not determined by the idea that one, or two, countries did not "start" another conflict. The fact is, there is ALWAYS conflict on this planet, always one, or more governments, murdering their own people, attacking a neighbor(s) etc, therefore, there is never peace. Also both Germany, and Japan, participated in the "Cold War" and people died, as they do in every war.

Until the day that NO government on this planet, is waging war, on it's own people, or peoples from other countries, will there be peace.

I contend, that this planet will never be devoid of war.

 

[Ragman]

. . . Europe has stopped the big war stuff,,,why can't the M.E. ? I know,,its complicated ,(sighing).

Ummmmm, Think again.

• 1944–1956 Guerilla war in the Baltic states
• 1945–1949 Greek Civil War
• 1953 Uprising in East Germany
• 1956 Uprising in Poznań
• 1956 Hungarian Revolution
• 1956–1962 Operation Harvest
• 1958 First Cod War
• 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
• 1968–1998 The Troubles
• 1970–1984 Unrest in Italy
• 1972–1973 Second Cod War
• 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus
• 1975-1976 Third Cod War
• 1988–1994 Nagorno-Karabakh War
• 1989 Romanian Revolution
• 1991 Ten-Day War
• 1991–1992 Georgian war against Russo-Ossetian alliance
• 1991–1993 Georgian Civil War
• 1991–1995 Croatian War of Independence
• 1992 War of Transnistria
• 1992 Ossetian-Ingush conflict
• 1992–1993 First Georgian war against Russo-Abkhazian alliance
• 1992–1995 Bosnian War
• 1993 Cherbourg incident
• 1993 Russian constitutional crisis
• 1994–1996 First Chechen War
• 1997 Unrest in Albania
• 1998–1999 Kosovo War
• 1998–present Dissident Irish Republican campaign
• 1998 Second Georgian war against Russian-Abkhazian alliance
• 1999 Dagestan War
• 1999–2009 Second Chechen War
• 1999–2001 Insurgency in the Preševo Valley

[h=2]21st century[edit][/h]

• 2001 Insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia
• 2002 Perejil Island crisis
• 2004 Unrest in Kosovo
• 2004 Georgia, Adjara crisis
• 2006 Georgia, Kodori crisis
• 2007–present Civil war in Ingushetia
• 2008 Unrest in Kosovo
• 2008 Russia–Georgia war
• 2009–present Insurgency in the North Caucasus
• 2011–present North Kosovo crisis
• 2013-present Euromaidan
• 2014-present Crimean crisis

 

[layoutshooter]

Two Cold Wars? First one did not start until 1958?

What the heck was this then?

[h=1]Berlin Airlift[/h]
"On June 15, 1948, the Soviets declared the Autobahn closed, and established roadblocks to prevent Berliners from fleeing the city. Within a week, all traffic between the various sectors of the city was halted. On Jun 21, river barge traffic was outlawed. Two days later, all railroads into and out of West Berlin were closed. Berliners were then at the mercy of the Soviet government to provide food and supplies. On June 24, 1948, the Soviets announced that they would not supply food to residents outside of the Soviet controlled sector. With all other means of transport cut-off, Britain and the United States, with the help of France, organized a massive airlift to feed and supply the sectors of West Berlin under their control."

Read more: Berlin Airlift - The Soviet blockade, Military airlift operations

 

[Ragman]

Two Cold Wars? First one did not start until 1958?

IDK, I just picked up the list from wikipedia as an example that europe has not been free and clear of the "war stuff" as the OP claims in post #3.

 

[layoutshooter]

The '56 uprising in Hungary was part of the Cold War, so was the Chezch uprising in '68. As were several other "minor" problems like the Korean Conflict and Vietnam.

That right though, NO where has been "free and clear" of war, nor will that ever likely happen.