Magox

If Someone of Patrick Peterson's physical and athletic ability began playing soccer even if it's here in the US at the age of 4, and dedicated himself like other pros, he most likely would be playing in Europe, I think there is little question of that.

So which view in your view was extreme from that article? And I guarantee you that your views are much more extreme in the eyes of the American public than mine. That's specially funny coming from the resident PPP socialist

So they were from the Occupy Wall Street crowd?

Good for you, and thank you for your marvelous contribution to this thread.

I just read the first link, and there isn't anything in there wacky owhatsoever other than the author's OPINION. Point to a quote he made or a position he made that backs up what you had been saying. And no, an opinion from a wackobird doesn't count. For crying out loud, the author somehow thought that: Was contradictory to: Which btw, I believe that second observation is spot on. Just stop, do yourself a favor and stop embarrassing yourself. Refute an opinion????? You want him, to get you a link, to refute an opinion? I read it and I posted it above. Nothing wacky in there at all, as a matter of fact, the second paragraph is spot on! Love it!

Germany looks scary! Extremely impressed with them, if they play like this I don't see anyone beating them.

Well they need a tonic, because the country views the liberals as a bunch of overreaching incompetent goobs. Point to me Brat's "extreme social views".

In other words, you got nothing. You just made **** up to fit your narrow viewpoint, and when called out on it, and I do that to you often, in which you NEVER have a substantive answer, EVER, you dodged and deflected and came up with some six degrees of separation excuse believing that somehow it bolstered your argument. The only thing you bolstered is that you are a twit who knows no other way of making his case other than creating bogeyman arguments. Weak

Try to focus, and for once, answer the damn the question. What is a Brat disciple? And what makes you think he is prone to say something cookoo?

Some brat disciple? So what is a brat disciple and what makes you think he is prone to say something in regards to women, equal rights or race that would be cookoo?

It appears to me that the Europeans, generally speaking are having a tougher time coping with the heat and humidity, this could bode well for the US vs. Germany and Portugal.

Pretty much everything you said is incorrect. And you sound angry.

When I first saw Robben play, what stood out to me was his elite speed. That guy would be a nightmare to cover if he's running at ya

World class beat down! Netherlands played in the second half with so much pace. Spain basically folded like a cheap suit. It will be interesting to see how they respond next game.

Well for starters you said You didn't say the very best of the best. Having said that, and don't mistake this for me believing we are at this level, but we did beat Spain vs their A team in a sanctioned match in the semifinals of the Confederations cup, and this was during their epic record 15 game winning streak. And we tied Italy during the WC in 2006, with a man down. So yeah, I reject your comment that we aren't getting close. And in regards to depth. Are you kidding me????? And we've more then held our own against a number of teams in Europe. The point is, that on any given day, we have the talent level to either play to a draw or beat any team. That wouldn't have been the case back in 1996.

Spain vs Netherlands Next Two of the best in the world.

I don't claim to have the solution, but what I do know is that both extremes aren't the answer.

US level of play is considerably better than it was in 1996 and the depth of talent isn't even comparable. In regards to the level of play vs Europe, we hang pretty close to even with most of the European games in head to head match ups. So, I have to disagree with you here. In regards to your last point, yeah, once they hit 16, that's when the cream of the crop separates from us, but we are making strides.

What does this have to do with what we're talking about?

Seems too often that the prescribed approaches are of that of a zero-sum nature. Black or white, on one extreme you have the Joe 6's of the world and on the other you have the Cheney's. Doesn't have to be that way, everything doesn't have to be black or white, and it's like this in many solutions, which is that there are many shades of grey in between. The best answer lies somewhere within these shades. I can tell you this, your approach is the wrong one, it's the sort of thinking that helped produce 9/11. Yeah, I watched that live yesterday. Ignatius who I consider to be very knowledgeable on matters of foreign policy, certainly is a sympathizer and supporter of the president, so for him to make that assessment, carries a little more weight.

I think that answers it. In other words your foreign policy on this matter can fairly be characterized as - Create a vaccum and whatever happens, happens *fingers crossed* -

Did you even read what I wrote? Can you please attempt to substantively respond to the questions I posed.

I agree with this principle. However, how do you determine a "major national security risk"? I'm assuming 9/11 in your view, falls in this category. So what could we have done before 9/11 to have prevented this? What about the reasoning that many have, that if you create a void, it's possible that it gets filled by some characters who wish and intend to do harm to the US? Is this not a valid concern? What ISIS is attempting to do is create an Islamic caliphate, don't you think this has risks to our US security interest through out the world and even possibly here? So the question is, how do we determine what a major national security risk, and how do we go about it? Are you a retard or do you just pretend to be one? No, what destabilized Syria were the actions of Assad and the ones he oppressed and gassed with chemical weapons that reacted ya nitwit

Yes, hence the need for a reform of the immigration system. And no "just tightening up the borders" does not constitute effective immigration reform.