Dear Accent,

I don’t think the answer to war is tolerance, wisdom, or education unless you mean by education that people are educated to realize that wars aren’t about intolerance so you wont solve them by being tolerant.

All wars are over the land and territorial resources.

Racism is only a symptom of the deeper under lying territorial hostility that exists between tribes. We are programmed to ensure the survival of our biological offspring and we are not biologically related to people in other tribes and that is why tolerance wont stop war only tribal intermarriage on a wide scale will.

The old Kings instinctively understood this when they married their children off to children of other Kings . It was often used to avert territorial warfare between the Kings of differing kingdoms or countries.
We need to understand like the old Kings did that we need biological connection to avoid war and serious conflict between the different ethnic(tribal )groups in this country.

The territorial instinct is a survival instinct just like the sexual instinct and just as you cant take the sexual instinct out of mankind you cannot take the territorial hostility(racism) out of mankind. It is always simmering just below the surface. You wont educate it, tolerate it or wisdom it away

Ah good no you accent. Agreed re: 9/11, agreed re: “that is real terrorism, day in, day out”, agreed re: Hicks, agreed re: “Only when we remove the stain of hypocrisy from our own rhetoric will we have any chance of fighting terrorism”

Matt, with respect, I don’t think accent was appointing himself a judge of what should be discussed any more than you were.

But I do admire Wayne’s tenacity. And I grapple with the issue of nuclear power or the development of a nuclear defence capability, as I have expressed previously on his threads.

Accent
Boy dont let us stop you. Feel free to jump right on the next plane and go hold Davids hand. Just how would you know what he was thinking or doing over there ?
If you get picked up in war then your a prisoner of war.
All I am saying is I just popped into this thread and the one thing that struck me was your agression towards Wayne.

If there were two people holding the button to these weapons i would certainly hope one of them was not you.

Fair Go Man no need to be so agro at everybody.
People will consider far more of your points if you dont come on like Hitler.
Other than that I am sure you are a very nice person.
David Hicks would like you anyway.
I tell you what i didnt agree with. Some fool suggesting his father for Dad of the year.
There you go Wayne that should liven up your thread. Just thank old Ned,
cheers Mat

"I’m sure you can refer us to the polls indicating that the majority of people want nuclear energy."

Poll backs nuclear increase
74% of respondents: Strong support for additional power plants
http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/toronto/story.html?id=b054eedc-3164-4d34-9101-5cfc61d95123

Australian polls are hard to locate but according to http://www.antinuclearaustralia.com the support in an smh poll was 60% in favour.

I'll dig up some more later.

Here we go. Australian poll. 47% for nuclear. 40% against.

http://news.sbs.com.au/insight/newspoll.html

More Australians approve (49%) than disapprove (37%) the introduction of nuclear power plants to replace coal, oil and gas power plants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while 14% can’t say, a special Morgan Poll conducted after Prime Minister John Howard announced an inquiry into the Australian uranium industry finds.
http://www.roymorgan.com/news/polls/2006/4032/

Thanks for disrailing a topic about nuclear weapons Accent. You accuse me of being crazy when clearly you can't even see a difference between commercial reactors and nuclear warheads. Stop trolling. It only makes you look an idiot.

Almost half of Australians have given nuclear power plants the thumbs up as a replacement for coal, oil and gas power plants, a poll shows.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=104053

I'm on an annoying 20 minute only library computer. I'll collect some more for you later.