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I'm afraid you've been watching too much Russian State (or State-controlled) TV: it's the pro-Russian separatists who are most like the Islamist Sharia-law advocates.

Don't forget the Zimmerman Telegram too. I remember there was one of these historical debate shows on television a few years back, you know, the sort where a panel of eminent historians debate the whys and wherefores of WWI in front of a live studio audience of 'ordinary people' . A couple of...

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Not so fast with the generalisations! The so-called 'People's Republic of Donetsk' is run by Russian Mafiosi and other assorted thugs and former criminals. Abductions, beatings, torture and rapes are de rigeur pm the streets of Donetsk, Luhansk and other eastern Ukrainian towns. These are not...

Whaaat!? The ex-serviceman I listened to sounded pretty credible to me - and I've had plenty of experience back in the day when I did litigation, particularly criminal defence work, as to whether a client or witness was lying; this guy didn't sound like a liar. He was very measured...

Yup. If it walks (off a base) like a duck and quacks like a duck... But I guess that's for a court martial to determine, which should be the next step - due process and all that.

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If you're going to persist in wilful ignorance, there's no point in engaging with you. You haven't even engaged with the evidence.

Nothing 'extremist' about that at all; just common sense. The definition is a bit different on this side of The Pond; for instance, it doesn't give me a free pass to ignore scientific evidence. Evidently you are, otherwise you wouldn't have responded. Funny how you have to stoop to throwing...

He was not 'left behind'. He chose to walk away and service personnel lost their lives looking for him.

Right, well there's so much info here it's hard to know where to start; there's plenty of evidence available online for you to do your own research (if you are genuine about that as opposed to mere point-scoring). Time constraints require me to confine me to one or two examples only. Let's...

Seriously??!! So, you're a 'Denier', then? Duly noted.

Listened to an interview on the BBC news last night with a guy from the same regiment as Bergdahl. he gist of what he said is as follows: whilst the release in some way has brought closure for him, he wants to know why the guy wandered off in the first place and why his unit and others wasted...

On the one hand, this is a long-overdue step in the right direction in the fight against anthropogenic climate change. On the other hand, Washington will in consequence owe something of a duty of care to aid consequently laid-off power industry workers to find alternative employment.

I feel very sorry for the remaining US (and UK) personnel in Afghanistan, whose safety has just become that little bit more compromised as a result of this...

The deserter point has yet to be proved by a court martial - which I think should be the next step. I am more concerned about the message that has been sent - that the West negotiates and does deals with terrorists.

Sadly we've rejoiced too soon it seems. Let's keep praying

Good and thought-provoking OP:thumbsup:

They're both pastors? Ah, that might explain it - perhaps they both need to take sabbaticals!

Thanks - some light rather than heat.