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TYT: Sam Harris & Noam Chomsky Trade Nasty Emails Until A Winner Emerges... (Original Post) redgreenandblue May 2015 OP
K&R..... daleanime May 2015 #1
Harris knows a lot about some things. History and politics aren't among them yurbud May 2015 #2
I could easily have been in Harris' position if around 9/11, I hadn't been reading THE PRIZE... yurbud May 2015 #3
TYT: Sam Harris & Noam Chomsky Trade Nasty Emails Until A Winner Emerges... The CCC May 2015 #4
Why doesn't atheism have a good track record? MillennialDem May 2015 #5

yurbud

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3. I could easily have been in Harris' position if around 9/11, I hadn't been reading THE PRIZE...
Mon May 25, 2015, 12:23 PM
May 2015

The Pulitzer Prize winning history of oil by Daniel Yergin, which made it clear that when it came to the Middle East, our government could care less what religion or human rights abuses are going on there. The only thing that matters is whether the natives give up their oil for the lowest possible price and give maximum control to the oil companies.

Knowing that after 9/11 made everything that happened seem like waking up in a really shitty Steven Seagal movie. What our government said bore no relation to their motive for what they are doing.

And that still is true today.

When ISIS was stayed in Syria, our government couldn't care less who they enslaved, raped, or beheaded.

The CCC

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4. TYT: Sam Harris & Noam Chomsky Trade Nasty Emails Until A Winner Emerges...
Mon May 25, 2015, 01:07 PM
May 2015

I agree except that Atheism doesn't have that good of a track record either.

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