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Started by Savonarola, February 22, 2010, 11:46:04 AM

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grumbler

#15
February 23, 2010, 12:47:50 PM
Quote from: Warspite on February 23, 2010, 12:36:50 PM
What does a Swiss dispute have to do with Europe as a whole? They made their neutralist bed, they can lie in it.
The same as some ludicrous school board decision in Kansas has to do with the US as a whole.  Makes for a controversy, contrived or not (see the marti jumping for the bait, exactly as planned, above).
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Razgovory

#16
February 23, 2010, 03:00:36 PM
What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were they just born with a heart full of neutrality?
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Martinus

#17
February 23, 2010, 04:02:50 PM
It's not like it's the first time the Swiss give up people to foreign powers. Jews during Holocaust, recently Polanski, and now this. Anyone who hopes the Swiss would think twice about turning them in is delusional.

Martinus

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February 23, 2010, 04:03:52 PM
Quote from: grumbler on February 23, 2010, 12:47:50 PM
Quote from: Warspite on February 23, 2010, 12:36:50 PM
What does a Swiss dispute have to do with Europe as a whole? They made their neutralist bed, they can lie in it.
The same as some ludicrous school board decision in Kansas has to do with the US as a whole.  Makes for a controversy, contrived or not (see the marti jumping for the bait, exactly as planned, above).

Are you saying that cultural differences between Switzerland and, say, London, are comparable to cultural differences between Kansas, and, say, New York?

Josquius

#19
February 23, 2010, 04:07:03 PM
Could this be: Swiss-Libyan war of 2010?
Now who saw that one coming....
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Savonarola

#20
February 23, 2010, 04:13:40 PM
Quote from: Tyr on February 23, 2010, 04:07:03 PM
Could this be: Swiss-Libyan war of 2010?
Now who saw that one coming....



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:hmm: Not sure on this one.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

dps

#21
February 23, 2010, 04:14:24 PM
Quote from: Martinus on February 23, 2010, 04:02:50 PM
It's not like it's the first time the Swiss give up people to foreign powers. Jews during Holocaust, recently Polanski, and now this. Anyone who hopes the Swiss would think twice about turning them in is delusional.

We haven't been threatening to storm the Swiss embassy in Washington to get Polanski. 

QuoteAre you saying that cultural differences between Switzerland and, say, London, are comparable to cultural differences between Kansas, and, say, New York?

That would imply that Switzerland and Kansas actually have culture.  Switzerland has mountains and coo-coo clocks;  Kansas has boring, flat terrain and, well, corn.

:)

Strix

#22
February 23, 2010, 07:18:08 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on February 23, 2010, 03:00:36 PM
What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were they just born with a heart full of neutrality?

I think the non-stop ticking of a million cuckoo clocks.
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Scipio

#23
February 23, 2010, 11:12:06 PM
The difference between these guys and Polanski is the difference between being convicted in absentia of a crime that everyone agrees you actually committed versus the crime of being a Swiss national in Libya, which shows questionable judgment, sure, but until the Swiss started not issuing visas to certain Libyans, was not actually a crime in Libya.
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The Brain

#24
February 24, 2010, 12:38:53 AM
Libya needs nukes.
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grumbler

#25
February 24, 2010, 11:08:33 PM
Quote from: The Brain on February 24, 2010, 12:38:53 AM
Libya needs nukes.
Libyia has nukes, but their words are not backed by them.
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