OT: - Real life dominions

[Saber Cherry]

I think we can all agree that the Middle East is at a strategic disadvantage. Quite simply, their gods don't have enough arms.

[castigated]

they do have fear, though, so they have that going for them.

[Humer]

Well, as the cartoons were published *in September* link
the whole incident should be put in different light. Why now? What's in it for anyone to pick it up now?

[Gandalf Parker]

The pretenders in this particular game do seem awfully unbalanced. But if US is Ulm then BinLaden is Pangaea. Force of arms vs sneak tactics. Winning seems automatic but it can take alot longer than it would with another open force.

In fact, maybe he is Pangaea with Carrion Woods. You have to take out the religious leaders or else they can create an entire new army.

Gandalf Parker

[Agrajag]

Just in case it doesn't show on the left, I'm from Israel.

I'd say we have enough gems to alchemize into 100 Astral pearls, as well as an Astral-9 pretender. An Alteration-9 researched. So atleast if Israel goes down, the rest of the world goes down with it ("Going Out With a Bang" =P)

Now seriously, those comics are just an excuse for them to riot. There's enough blasphemous and otherwise inappropriate material for:
1) Israel to burn down every arab country in the middle east.
2) USA to burn down every muslim country in the area.
3) Jews to riot and burn down nice portions of most of the western world.
4) Hindus to riot and burn down almost the entire world.
5) etc.
Yet none of that seems to happen.

[Fate]

Yes, this is all true (especially who is what gods ).

I think that how this really needs to be seen as is the stone that broke the camel's back. From my (poor) american perspective, the entire middle east has been on fire for the last four decades -or longer- and I think that the feeling there could finally just be a substantial population who "just can't take it any longer."

Now, don't get me wrong, I am not trying to condone what is happening, I am just pointing out that there are reasons. Sometimes you just don't want to think about it, just do it.

[Tom_Scudder]

Despite everything, these demos have not been very big (loud & violent, and very stupid, but not big), compared to eg the big demos & counter-demos in Lebanon last year, or the big anti-terrorism demo in Jordan just after the bombings this October (?)

A blog I intermittently contribute to has a big fat roundup on the whole danish insanity:

http://www.aqoul.com/danish.html

[Agrajag]

Fate said:
I think that how this really needs to be seen as is the stone that broke the camel's back. From my (poor) american perspective, the entire middle east has been on fire for the last four decades -or longer- and I think that the feeling there could finally just be a substantial population who "just can't take it any longer."

I'll remind you that most americans think that Israel is such a buch of tents and camels roaming in the desert (unlike the truth - just your average modern western country. Also, we have more cool intelligence technology than the US =P)
As for "the entire middle east has been on fire for the last four decades", if this was truly the reason, than because of exactly the same reason Israel should have wiped out all of the arab nations around, long ago. Its just an excuse for blood-thirsty people to "go wild".

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Agrajag,
I apologize, not only I misunderstood you, but my reply wasn't even properly quoted...

[Fate]

I am sorry if I brought this thread into too political a setting. I said "around four decades ago" because I am often wrong, and with subjects like this I don't want to offend.

Anyway, in connection with Dominions. Don't you think that there must be alot of gems in the mid-east (oil)? And therefore they should be some magic nation... I am not very familiar with many of the nations, so someone could supply one. Pangaea would make the most sense, I guess.