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Seriously, what are they going to do about it if we do???
RWSGFY says
Seriously, what are they going to do about it if we do???
zzyzzx says
Seriously, what are they going to do about it if we do???
Send some North Korean conscripts on scooters?
Israeli Used Car Lot up in flames last night. The Iranians are really hitting Jews where it hurts.

There is no Hebrew word for accountability
No society is perfect, but democratic nations are able to examine themselves and learn from their errors. Strong countries are not afraid of admitting mistakes.
DECEMBER 21, 2010
Democracy’s underlying premise – that government is the servant of the governed – relies on a commitment to self-scrutiny. Unfortunately, in Israel the lack of a proper culture of accountability has been demonstrated in several recent developments.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s extraordinary – and eventually successful – efforts to avert a parliamentary committee of inquiry into the Carmel fire disaster, is a case in point. In Israeli parliamentary democracy, the government is supported by a coalition with a majority in the Knesset, making it very difficult to pass inconvenient measures that would scrutinize government actions, a testament to Israel’s weak culture of accountability.
The Hebrew word for "accountability" is:
אַחְרָיוּתִיּוּת (akh-rayu-tee-yut)
It is derived from the root א־ח־ר (A-Ch-R), which relates to responsibility (אַחְרָיוּת – akh-rayut = responsibility). The suffix -ִיּוּת (-iyut) turns it into a more abstract noun, similar to "-ity" in English.



Patrick says
It's not always black and white. And as far as Iraq goes, well there was a secular guy who kept Iran in check, but somehow some warmonger decided he must be removed by any means necessary
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