Originally by: fugazii

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2 yrs deserves a thread?

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Originally by: ArmChair Admiral

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WINDYPOPS?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Windypops you are MY IDOL!!! With you gone I don't know how I can do my own campaign to find the truth....

I am taking a vow! Since your gone looks like I am going to take up where you left off! For your dedicated service I give you the National Association of Armchair Generals "Uberness" award!

Looks like I am off to destiny!

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Originally by: DigitalCommunist

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You're taking credit for pacifying CAOD? Holy hell. I need to keep up with my ego stroking, cause somebody is finally catching up.

CAOD is how it is today because there are no wars of consequence or meaning (yet). It's the calm between storms, and pretty much identical to what CAOD was in 2006 the same time of year. It'll take until fall, when the map starts getting rearranged again for the forums to spiral down again.

It's a consequence of more serious gameplay and real hate/fear. It's also what makes CAOD addicting.

I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride -- humility in the wake of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection that this forum of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised. Here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race. I do not stand here as advocate for any partisan cause, for the issues are fundamental and reach quite beyond the realm of partisan consideration. They must be resolved on the highest plane of national interest if our course is to prove sound and our future protected. I trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint of a fellow American.

I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole. While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other. There are those who claim our strength is inadequate to protect on both fronts, that we cannot divide our effort. I can think of no greater expression of defeatism. If a potential enemy can divide his strength on two fronts, it is for us to counter his effort. The Communist threat is a global one. Its successful advance in one sector threatens the destruction of every other sector. You can not appease or otherwise surrender to communism in Asia without simultaneously undermining our efforts to halt its advance in Europe.

Beyond pointing out these general truisms, I shall confine my discussion to the general areas of Asia. Before one may objectively assess the situation now existing there, he must comprehend something of Asia's past and the revolutionary changes which have marked her course up to the present. Long exploited by the so-called colonial powers, with little opportunity to achieve any degree of social justice, individual dignity, or a higher standard of life such as guided our own noble administration in the Philippines, the peoples of Asia found their opportunity in the war just past to throw off the shackles of colonialism and now see the dawn of new opportunity, a heretofore unfelt dignity, and the self-respect of political freedom.

Mustering half of the earth's population, and 60 percent of its natural resources these peoples are rapidly consolidating a new force, both moral and material, with which to raise the living standard and erect adaptations of the design of modern progress to their own distinct cultural environments. Whether one adheres to the concept of colonization or not, this is the direction of Asian progress and it may not be stopped. It is a corollary to the shift of the world economic frontiers as the whole epicenter of world affairs rotates back toward the area whence it started.

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Originally by: General Windypops

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Originally by: fugazii

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2 yrs deserves a thread?

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2 years doesn't, no. But ultimately beating Goonswarm does.

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Originally by: Scavok

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kill yourself

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